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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Unplugged Computer at Philadelphia VA Affected Treatment of Prostate Cancer Patients

Unplugged VA computer affects treatment of cancer patients 05/05/2010. It took officials at a Veterans Affairs Department hospital in Philadelphia more than a year to learn that a computer used to assess patient's response to treatments for prostate cancer had been unplugged, delaying assessments, according to an inspector general report released on Monday.  Nextgov
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