“A new nationwide initiative will allow researchers to mine data from electronic health records at the Department of Veterans Affairs to study treatment efficacy, the Salt Lake City Deseret News reports.
The $10 million, four-year project — called the Consortium for Healthcare Informatics Research — will be led and coordinated by physicians from the VA Hospital in Salt Lake City. Investigators from California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee also will collaborate on the research.”
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iHealthBeat, 14 May 2009
