Health Information Compliance Alert
In other news….Harvard Medical School researchers have developed a prototype
Published on Fri May 01, 2009
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Everyone seems to agree that it's cheaper to prevent health problems than to treat them. Still, most of the money spent on healthcare goes to treatment.
One of the problems preventive medicine faces: It's hard to show how much money is actually saved for a service that doesn't actually fix an immediate problem.
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Health Information Compliance Alert
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Electronic Health Records Policy Takes Next Big Step
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