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E-medical records: More ’meaningful use’
Forbes.com, August 3, 2010
The push toward electronic medical records has garnered a lot of attention lately as the federal rules roll out for public funding of what the government calls "meaningful use." But aside from just saving money by modernizing the record keeping, just how meaningful can all of this get? Forbes caught up with Mike Cummins, senior vice president and CIO of VHA, a cooperative national health care network, to discuss the electronic future.
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