He customized an electronic information system that tracks whether patients are meeting their goals.

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Privacy advocates such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center claim the system puts personal information at risk.

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Eventually Dolan started an electronic system to deliver information to financial institutions and credit agencies that needed up-to-the-minute data on things like real estate liens and foreclosures.

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The Maori Land Court has also created electronic copies within its database, the Maori Land Information System for the public to use at Maori Land Court registries.

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Because making this determination can take hours given that disability claims files often contain hundreds of pages (the VA has no department-wide electronic records system), claims processors are driven to render decisions without necessary medical information.

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Mr Lewis said one of the reasons an electronic census could not be done before was that a system was needed that was able to pull out that information in a way that was data protection compliant.

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