Empowerment, education critical to health-care future

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Channel: Purdue University · 2008 · Science & Technology

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Improved information technology will give patients a greater role in deciding their health-care options, but it also will create challenges, says a Purdue University science expert.

Jeffrey S. Vitter, the Frederick L. Hovde Dean of the College of Science, says part of the problems associated with health care come from patients having to deal with an ever-changing system that is difficult to understand. 
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2008a/080630TG12-VitterHealthCa.html

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