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I also worked in this field. We have been selling EMR for years to the dental industry along with electronic insurance filing. You have the early adopters who love adding technology, the gradual adopters who see the benefits, cost savings and production increases, and then the draggers that will only go electronic when forced. EMR is already out there, and has been for years, so I'm not so sure why the gov't needs to implement a system (probably to become 'big brother'). The hard part of implementing EMR is training the office staff - I've had to teach women how to use a mouse (yes, really - they were coming off a UNIX and only used function keys), scanners scare the pants off these women (afriad to push button or click on icons), and some don't know the difference between the space bar and shift key (yes, I actually had a 20 minute phone conversation trying to get a woman to hold shift and alt at the same time. She was holding the space bar down instead).
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