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Connectivity to improve patient safety.
Whitehead SF, Goldman JM. Patient Saf Qual Healthcare. January/February 2010;7:26-30.

This article discusses how adopting open standards for medical device interoperability can help advance patient safety and reports on a 5-year multidisciplinary project related to this goal.
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