Summary

Obama administration faces challenges in transitioning to electronic medical records due to conflicting state regulations. Implementing a single federal standard could reduce costs.

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Written by Aliya Sternstein at NextGov.com in July of 2009, this article explains why some vendors and hospital managers believe that varying state medical record retention regulations may add cost to the Obama administration’s plan to implement electronic health records. (more…)

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