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E M R
D I A R Y
Last of a 6-part series
The
Trials
and Tribulations
of Going Paperless
M
The switch from
y EMR project has me feeling a bit
paper charts to
deflated, I'll admit. Deflated, but not
computers is
defeated. I was hoping and expectfraught with
potential problems. ing that our electronic medical records would
We've learned
be up and running by the time this article, the
some lessons the
last in a year-long, 6-part series, ran. Instead,
hard way.
our go-live date continues to elude me. I'm left
Annette D. Saylor, RN,
CNOR, CRNFA
Grand Junction, Colo.
leaping the same high hurdles that were standing in the way of a successful EMR implementation when last we met in September (see "The
Stalled Install" at tinyurl.com/9444vdk).
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