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<p><strong>DHMSM'S GOING TO ... KANSAS CITY: </strong>The military confirmed Wednesday it will locate the data center for its massive new EHR within Cerner's headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., despite complaints from industry competitors who said the deal contradicted the government's promise not to restrict access to its health data. In the <a href="http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9781ab876b48d2c33ad9525878b238cdb151c7aeac1886c44725b5cc3c46d32f" target="blank">announcement </a>, DoD said that despite interest shown by four other companies - IBM, Amazon Webservices, CSC and General Dynamics Information Tech - it had concluded that Cerner was the best hosting solution, since that was the only way to enable DoD medical providers to benefit from Cerner's analytics and population health tools. Pros can read our story <a href="http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9781ab876b48d2c313d5f398e781e448ffd16ff0e5e18b8760f5b49d04da2c34" target="blank">here:</a></p>