Dr. Edna Devries entered information on a tablet computer at the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin. The clinic has been an early adopter of electronic records.

Published: February 26, 2011

THE United States is embarking this year on a grand experiment in the government-driven adoption of technology — ambitious, costly and potentially far-reaching in impact. The goal is to improve health care and to reduce its long-term expense by moving the doctors and hospitals from ink and paper into the computer age — through a shift to digital patient records.

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