Is anything ever free these days? Maybe so.

Instigated by the incredibly slow adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) by doctors across the nation, Medicare is announcing it will begin offering doctors free electronic medical record software solutions.

Both upfront and ongoing costs have been critical factors in the lagging EMR adoption rate. Medicare hopes that by providing doctors with a free or very low-cost system, doctors will readily adopt EMR putting healthcare providers in America on a common system, thereby, providing Medicare and the general public with obvious, health, reporting and billing benefits.

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Women who drink wine are actually less likely to gain weight than those who are teetotal, according to a new report.
Researchers found that regular moderate female drinkers were less likely to become obese after a 13 year study of more than 19,000 women.
The finding seems to contradict received dietary wisdom which has it that alcohol consumption leads to weight gain.

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