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Health Law Seen Boosting Xerox, HP

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When Tennessee Medicaid Director Darin Gordon walks around his department in an office park north of downtown Nashville, he sees dozens of workers from technology giant Hewlett-Packard.

HP's employees help to operate the massive computer systems that run Tennessee Medicaid. When Gordon wants a report on how much the government health insurance program is spending, or the quality of the care for 1.3 million enrollees, he relies on HP-generated data -- "the backbone of everything we do," he says.

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Source: Kaiser Health News (in collaboration with USA Today)

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