Michael Swiernik, MD, Director, Medical Informatics, UCLA, discusses IT in medicine, not only relating to EMR but to issues with storage volume and medical imaging. He also talks about using stable networks that can tolerate the large flow of data that is generated by the increasing use of technology in medicine.

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