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Verizon has been aggressively pursuing opportunities in health care-and the company today announced one of its biggest steps yet toward providing the health care industry with a ubiquitous and secure means of exchanging patient medical records with one another.
"We're trying to enable all doctors nationwide to be able to share health care-related [material] electronically," Steve Archer, head of the Innovation Incubation Group at Verizon Business, told Connected Planet.
Free credentials for doctors
Beginning in January, the carrier plans to make multi-factor credentials available at no charge to nearly every physician, nurse practitioner and physician's assistant nationwide. This could help those health care professionals...