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Physician adoption of electronic medicalrecords (EMRs) has become a national priority. It is said that EMRshave the potential to greatly improve patient care, to provide thedata needed for more effective population management and qualityassurance of both an individual practice's patients as well aspatients of large health care systems, and the potential to createefficiencies that allow physicians to provide this improved care ata far lower cost than at present. There is currently a strong U.S.government push for physicians to adopt EMR technology, with theObama administration emphasizing the use of EMRs as an importantpart of the future of health care and urging widespread adoption ofthis technology by 2014. This timely book for the primary carecommunity offers a concise and easy to read guide for implementingan EMR system. Organized in six sections, this invaluable titledetails the general state of the EMR landscape, covering thegovernment's incentive program, promises and pitfalls of EMRtechnology, issues related to standardization and the range of EMRvendors from which a provider can choose. Importantly, chapter twoprovides a detailed and highly instructional account of theexperiences that a range of primary care providers have had inimplementing EMR systems. Chapter three discusses how toeffectively choose an EMR system, while chapters four and fivecover all of the vital pre-implementation and implementation issuesin establishing an EMR system in the primary care environment.Finally, chapter six discusses how to optimize and maintain a newEMR system to achieve the full cost savings desired. Concise,direct, but above all honest in recognizing the challenges inchoosing and implementing an electronic health record in primarycare, Electronic Medical Records A Practical Guide for PrimaryCare has been written with the busy primary care physician inmind.