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0 Trouble on the Health Information Highway: VA Closes Off Access to the Defense Department's EHR System
Mar 8, 2010. Government Initiatives, Health Information Technology.Early last week, the Department of Veterans Affairs found errors in some patients’ medical data that clinicians downloaded from the Defense network. While these errors were not linked to any adverse events, such errors are raising flags that software glitches could compromise the accuracy of electronic medical records. Further, such inaccuracies in patient records could have serious implications for the planned National Health Information Infrastructure.
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