Timeline: History Of Blocking Regulation Of Electronic Health Records

Over the past decade, government efforts to create a national system to track and analyze deaths, injuries and other adverse incidents linked to electronic health records repeatedly have failed amid opposition from the technology industry and its supporters in Congress.

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<h1>Timeline: History Of Blocking Regulation Of Electronic Health Records</h1>
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			November 22, 2019		</time>
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