Fighting outbreaks with electronic medical records
Infection Control Weekly Monitor, June 27, 2012
Electronic medical records now play a major role in investigating infectious disease outbreaks and other threats to public health.
In receiving data from hospitals and other medical facilities, health departments are able to respond to infectious disease outbreaks with unprecedented speed.
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