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The network is the solution.

W Halverson
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Although the U.S. healthcare system has at its disposal some of the best technology in the world, information systems from the 1970s are still used in many cases. Pacific Bell's William Halverson analyzes the slow adoption of information technology in the healthcare industry.

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W Halverson. 1995. The network is the solution.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10142794/

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