Health IT’s Potential Patient Safety Risks Draws House Panel’s Letter To HHS
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Healthcare and Technology subcommittee chairman prods HHS to describe how it will monitor health information technology to reduce risks to patient safety; the Institute of Medicine recently called for more such government oversight.
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