Mayo Clinic pledges to invest $1bn in digital healthcare records
Minnesota-based the Mayo Clinic is set to invest $1bn in a centralised digital medical records system, according to the healthcare giant's annual report. The consolidation programme, which was first announced in January 2015, will electronically integrate patient medical records systems on to a new Epic system to be used by Mayo's 45,000 employees in the company's establishments across Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Georgia. Implementation work is set to begin later this year and will take five years to complete.

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