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A few months ago, the VA's widely-praised VistA EMR system went down in a big way for eight hours, locking out the VA's entire 377,000-patient Northern California Healthcare System. Now, VA physician IT leaders are trying to help Congress figure out how such a thing could have happened. Article
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