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Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

The New Momentum Behind Electronic Health Records

By Secretary Kathleen Sebelius August 26, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Today, in almost every other sector besides health, electronic information exchange is the way we do business. Health care providers may agree with the benefits of electronic health records. But they’ve also believed that adopting them was too difficult and expensive.

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