And the Department of Health and Human Services is going to be focused on implementing the law in a way that maximizes the benefits of the law for people all across the country.
So he looks at this in a more holistic way, and he will move forward inimplementing some of the actions that he took in the first term, and building on the progress that was made in the first term.
But we need to recognise that the previous way of implementing information systems in the NHS between 1998 and 2002 resulted in only five Trusts getting a high degree of adoption for electronic patient records, because the engineering activity to localised systems to each work group was just economically unviable so that you have to have some degree of standardisation.