Va Unlocks Records to Improve Health Care

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Thousands of veterans suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder or an aggressive, antibiotic resistant staph infection will soon be on the radar screen for researchers looking to find the most effective treatments by "mining" the information contained in military medical records.

Utah physicians at Salt Lake's Veterans Administration Hospital will provide overall leadership and coordination for the new nationwide VA initiative to unlock information in the VA's electronic health records that have never before been available.

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Va Unlocks Records to Improve Health Care

Dr. Matthew Samore, professor of internal medicine at the U. and chief of the Division of Clinical Epidemiology, is heading up Utah's part in the initiative, called the Consortium for...

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