For a while now, experts in information technology have been chiding hospitals to slim down on the paper patient files and prescription slips and get into better digital shape. While many of the individual pieces of equipment in health care are now computerized, capturing data from these devices and storing it in a centralized system, which then allows for an effective transmission of information to the right people at the right time, lag far behind. One reason that hospitals have been slow to adopt such tools is they're expensive to implement, and managing complex medical information is a difficult job.

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