Great blog post from the Wall Street Journal on moving physicians to an EMR:
“Allow us to pause from our wall-to-wall coverage of the Pfizer-Wyeth deal to consider another expensive proposition: How to move America’s doctors and hospitals from reams of paper and manila folders to electronic medical records.“
More information on this discussion from EMR Update: “What does it take to get physicians to adopt an EMR?”
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