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Advancing IT Propelling Pediatric Surgery

Children's National Medical Center using $150 million gift from Abu Dhabi government to improve medical outcomes by using technologies like GPS and 3D graphics to customize procedures.

InformationWeek
Aug 19, 2010

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Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. is on a mission to improve patient surgical outcomes through innovative new uses of information technology in pediatric surgeries.

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