At a healthcare symposium yesterday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton told the audience that making all medical records paperless would be one way to fix the healthcare system by reducing inefficiency, redundancy and medical mistakes.

The Democratic senator from New York was the keynote speaker and the moderator of the symposium sponsored by HSBC Bank and held at a country club on Long Island, NY.
 
Clinton said that Long Islanders, with their higher cost of living, pay higher health care costs than the national average. The average Long Island individual pays 11 percent more in premiums than others nationally, and families pay about 6 percent more, said Clinton.

The senator's prescription called for taking advantage of information technology and putting all medical records on computer systems that protect privacy and, at the same time, can be accessed by healthcare providers.