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Researchers Jan Walker and Tom Delbanco believe the device sitting between them will become an ever-more important medical tool.

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Patients expect computers to play major role in health care

As President Obama calls for streamlining heath care by fully converting to electronic medical records, and as Congress prepares to debate issues of patient privacy, one question has largely gone unasked: What do patients want?

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