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|Podcasts|April 15, 2015
VIDEO: The Costs of EHR
Author(s)Jared Kaltwasser
In Part 3 of our EHR video series, Summit Medical Group Chair and CEO Jeffrey D. LeBenger, MD, FACS, discusses how his practice transitioned to Electronic Health Records in a cost-efficient way, and how it leverages the efficiencies of digital health.
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Electronic Health records come with a number of costs. Staff must be trained. Hardware must be purchased and replaced. And software must be installed and updated. In this third video in our EHR series, Summit Medical Group Chair and CEO Jeffrey D. LeBenger discusses how his practice handled these costs. He also discusses the efficiencies created by using a digital record platform.
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