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If medical information is not on the network, then how can our clinicians chart, share data between systems, comply with meaningful use, etc... I have over 100 interfaces that take data transmitted across the network from one system to an engine where the data is translated and passed on to a receiving system. If it wasn't passed across the network, it would have to all be done by paper.
Medical Information does have to go across networks, but they have to be secure and encrypted and only available through the proper, password protected systems, and no one can just plug in a random device and get on the network.