As Tim Wu has pointed out patents centralize control over innovation.

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Wal-Mart said the company changed its reporting structure to centralize control.

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Larry Ponemon argues that at large providers like the Cleveland Clinic, new systems have helped centralize and control patient records instead of allowing to collect in disparate places around a hospital.

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