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David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health information technology for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “defended the administration’s new plans against critics who say the watered-down rules miss an opportunity to lower costs and improve patient care,” The Salt Lake Tribune reports.

“The recently released rules dictate what qualifies as ‘meaningful use’ of electronic medical records, the standard providers must adopt to access the billions in grants available to help them go paperless. The standards seek to strike a balance between encouraging the change without expecting too much from health providers,” Blumenthal told Utah health officials. Read more