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E M R
R E A D E R
S U R V E Y
A special report on the
state of electronic medical
records implementation in
outpatient surgery.
Got
EMR?
L
et's not beat around the bush:
Implementing an electronic medical
Lisa Waters, RN
Columbia, S.C.
records system is expensive, time-con-
suming and often frustrating. In the end, though, you'll wonder why
you waited so long to go paperless.
A little more than half (53.9%) of the 141 ASCs Outpatient Surgery
Magazine surveyed have at least partly implemented an EMR. Of the
92 hospitals polled, 86.9% have started down the paperless trail. At my
ophthalmic surgical center, we're somewhere in the middle of it all.
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