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MedInfo 2004 A day with the Primary Care Informatics Groups

This was not an event focused on open source but I spent the day there because I believe that primary care generated patient data is at the center of the patient data universe. It is also where there is the least penetration of commercial information technology systems in the United States. There are several open source projects now working to fill this gap and we will hear more about them later this week.
While originally hailed as a combined EFMI, IMIA, AMIA Primary Care Informatics Working Group Consensus Conference This day-long mini-conference was very US centric though there were several representatives from other countries in attendance.

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