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Mongiardo visits Owensboro

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OWENSBORO, KY (WFIE) - Lieutenant Governor Daniel Mongiardo toured an Owensboro business he hopes can help fix the health care system. Knox Technologies digitizes paper documents in an effort to improve physician care.

"Within a matter of minutes, health records can be called up and available to the attending physician or the emergency room physician no matter where you are," Denny Alford with Knox Technologies said. "[That] is an incredible leap forward."

The lieutenant governor said converting paper documents into digital copies could not only improve the health care system but bring jobs to the Commonwealth.

"If we significantly reduce the cost of health care then we're competitive for all jobs," Mongiardo said. "Any job that we want to compete for to bring to Kentucky, because health care is such a large expense for all companies, then we can compete for all jobs."

Mongiardo said this could be Kentucky's moment to lead the way.

"I'm concerned that if we don't fix health care, then we're going to continue to lose jobs to other countries," he said.  "If we're the state that shows the rest of the country how to do it and we do it right, then we bring all kinds of jobs here."

Mongiardo is looking to take his work on health care to the U.S. Senate. The lieutenant governor hopes a second bout with incumbent Jim Bunning will be his ticket to Washington.

"There are a lot of people across this state who see this as a continuation of that campaign," Mongiardo said.  "We are going to finish the job this time."

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