For a medical practice, an EMR is a central, vitally-important system – once paper charts have been abandoned, the EMR system must be completely reliable. If it goes down, conducting ordinary business is extremely difficult. Thus, identifying potential points of failure and implementing safeguards to...

One of the strategic issues facing medical practices that are moving from paper charts into an EMR is the question of what to do about old paper chart information. Should there be an exhaustive attempt to scan all the old charts and import them into...