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What impacts doctors decision to start electronic health records implementation?
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Dr. Gutti Raoanswered
Hospital-based practice 48 years experience
Govt regulation: Emr is being introduced in a phased manner- cms guidelines. All hospitals and offices are to implement electronic records. There are so many technical difficulties with these programs, but they are getting better. As of now, most doctors have not embraced them as well.
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Last updated Jul 3, 2012
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