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Patient Access to Electronic Health Records Yields Unexpected Results

  |  Issue: October 2014  |  

Simon M. Helfgott, MD

Simon M. Helfgott, MD, is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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