Health IT Office Sets Schedule To Meet Looming Deadlines
Executive Summary
With an acknowledgement of "a lot of work to do in a very short period of time," the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology laid a foundation to prioritize and tackle key issues to develop a national health IT infrastructure
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