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On the recordJanuary 29, 2018
I think I have been through too many of these. Electronic health records are now standard in virtually every health system in the Nation. And every one of them have made mistakes and in most every system the first effort failed. But we have more than enough models in place so that this should not have happened. But it did.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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Garamendi criticizes failures in electronic health record implementations.

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