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it. You might even grow to love it. But don't take my word for it.
"Though sometimes there are more steps to getting something done
than what I like, it's more efficient," says Bonnie Smith, RN, CNOR,
CPSN, nurse coordinator at Aaronson Plastic Surgery Center in Palm
Springs, Calif., which has had EMR for more than 5 years. "There's no
more hunting for charts. And we were running out of space for paper
charts." The one thing she wishes she'd known about EMR? "How
great it is." OSM
Ms. Waters (lwaters@columb iaeyeclinic.com) is the
chief operating officer of Columbia (S.C.) Eye Surgery Center.
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