Healthcare and Information Technology

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The Obama recovery plan contains $19 billion to help American doctors computerize their records. Will Information Technology reduce the costs of healthcare and the incidence of medical error or make things worse? Also, the Fed may be saving credit markets, but who'll save the Fed? On Reporter's Notebook, America's veterans on the sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq.

The Obama recovery plan contains $19 billion to help American doctors computerize their records. Will Information Technology reduce the costs of healthcare and the incidence of medical error or make things worse? Also, the Federal Reserve may be saving credit markets, but who'll save the Fed? On Reporter's Notebook, on the sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq, what's the outlook for American veterans?

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Credits

Host:

Warren Olney

Producers:

Christian Bordal, Karen Radziner