Galveston County Daily News, April 24, 2007 Column by Howard Brody GALVESTON -- Does your physician use a computerized health record? Does she need one? A group from the Commonwealth Fund surveyed primary care physicians (family doctors, general internists and general pediatricians) in the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Germany. You can find the report, "On the front lines of care," at the website www.healthaffairs.org. This team asked a number of questions about how their office systems ran and about their ability to deliver quality care. The first thing they discovered was that America and Canada lagged way behind the other countries in the use of computerized medical records in these physicians' offices. http://galvestondailynews.com/guestcolumns.lasso  (Link available later today)