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Recently, several organizations have conducted surveys designed to take a broad look at the breadth of adoption, implementation and use of IT in hospitals. For example, the Hospital and Health Networks conducted a 2010 survey called Health Care’s Most Wired 2010. This survey resulted in the encouraging news that progress is being made in the goal for health care systems to attain Meaningful Use status by the 2015 deadline.

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