Critical access: the need to connect. Connecting midsize hospitals to rural critical access hospitals is important to the growth of both--but there are things larger hospitals need to know.
Many small, rural critical access hospitals are reaching out to each other and to larger hospitals as a way of setting up affordable health information technology systems that will meet meaningful use requirements. CIOs who have followed this strategy weigh in on its benefits and potential pitfalls.
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