Health Quality Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Clinical information systems. Health Quality hopes to offer a seamless information system for use directly by patients, physicians, nurses and other members of the health team, to manage the clinical and quality aspects of care at the point of care.
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