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Biden To Announce Almost $1.2B For Medical Records
AP via Yahoo News ^ | 20 Aug 2009 | Phillip Elliot

Posted on 08/20/2009 4:36:20 AM PDT by edpc

WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden plans to announce Thursday nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help hospitals transition to electronic medical records.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhohealthcare; biden; economy; federalspending; healthcare; hippa; medicalrecords; obama; privacy; vpbiden
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To: Vaduz
They're already doing it, and have been for quite some time (see HIPPA).

The push for standardization, which may or may not be top-down, is certainly helping the mechanics of this monster.

21 posted on 08/20/2009 6:29:13 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (this slope is getting slippereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...)
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To: Kirkwood

Oops -pardon the typo


22 posted on 08/20/2009 9:49:57 AM PDT by Notasoccermom
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