Salway, R. J., Silvestri, D., Wei, E., & Bouton, M. (2020). Using Information Technology To Improve COVID-19 Care At New York City Health Hospitals. Health Affairs. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00930

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Hospitals in New York have transitioned to a unified enterprise -wide electronic medical record (EMR). Technological crisis were able to be solved using this program. With this program, everything is in one spot for every patient including, diagnoses, medicines, tests, and health history. In case of an emergency, no files are going to get lost and when ever a medical professional is looking for something specific, there is easy accesses to search up what they need. Another part of the program helps evaluate and discharge low acuity patients to free up resources for the ill since machinery is limited. The EMR is beneficial to both the professionals and patients. 

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