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By Heather Newman, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 28--Emergency room doctors need more information about more illnesses and injuries than virtually any other specialty. And they always need those facts fast.

But in many ERs around the state, medical reference still takes the form of books -- outdated when they're printed, reshelved haphazardly by hurrying doctors or missing when they migrate to other departments. And efforts at computerization can force doctors to leave a patient's bedside to click and type their way throug

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