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U.S. Will Offer Doctors Free Electronic Records System

From today’s NYTimes:
http://nytimes.com/2005/07/21/health/21records.html
In an unprecedented move, it said it planned to announce that it would give doctors – free of charge – software to computerize their medical practices.

It is to be vista.
What does this mean?
Is there a risk of office vista becoming the new standard?
Clearly it isn’t the only free program but it has uncle sam pushing it in the NYT. Is that enough to make it the frontrunner?

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