The doctor will digitize you now.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-4 August 2004-IBM: The doctor will digitize you now(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08042004 U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson recently called computerizing medicine "one of the most important things we can do to improve the quality of health." Now, Mayo Clinic and IBM have taken a big step in that area.

Over the next few years, each will invest millions of dollars to map current and historical patient records and link them to new types of medical information. As a result, doctors will have quick and easy access not just to a patient's own medical history, but also to past treatments for an entire patient population and research data on genetics, proteomics (the study of proteins contained with a cell) and...