For example, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a community dealing with an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes that has the highest rate of cardiovascular disease deaths in the nation, the award will help 1, 600 physicians and other providers participate in a new community-wide health information system that will help them better monitor and improve care transitions as patients move from one care setting to another.

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Twenty years ago today the nuclear research centre CERN put out a press release announcing that it was making freely available something called the World Wide Web, "a global computer networked information system".

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One use of this information could be to create a system-wide awareness of the context of the user.

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Under the leadership of Dr. Nirav Shah, New York State Commission of Health, New York has been a vanguard state in fostering an environment of innovation in health information exchange, the use of health information technology to support delivery system transformation such as State-wide medical home initiatives, and initiating SHINY as part of the New York e Health Collaborative.

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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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