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As these words are being written, the US Congress is debating the final terms of a stimulus bill that will result in the expenditure of almost $800 billion of public funds on a wide array of initiatives intended to address an equally challenging goal: resurrecting an economy that seems inexorably headed towards its worst performance since the Great Depression. Whether that fortune gets spent wisely or not will depend a lot on open source, and open standards.
One of those initiatives included in the stimulus bill would make the final push towards national implementation of something called "Electronic Health Records," or "EHRs"
- and spend $20 billion in the process.
EHRs are basically just frameworks of standards, and while the money may now be there, unfortunately not all of the standards are.
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