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Specialty pharma’s next big opportunity: it’s time for patient access to adopt an open protocol

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The Institute of Medicine first advocated a shift from paper-based to electronic medical records in 1992 , yet, only 13% of U.S. healthcare facilities were found to have an EHR system fully implemented by 2004. You may ask: Can an open protocol be HIPAA compliant? Many are still making the transition.

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