Saphner: Information security is better with electronic records. With a paper document, you don’t know who has seen it or where it’s been. With electronic, you have a record of everyone who has opened the file.

Willard: EMR is sometimes seen as less secure. We have a patient population of largely elderly patients, so they had a lot of questions. We reinforced that all records are password protected. We have firewall and security, and our internal HPPA privacy and security auditors are continuously vigilant about security. When we were acquired and became hospital based, it made the security requirements more stringent. So we built assessments for quality, and have a real sense of pride in the levels of compliance that we’ve achieved. In addition, we work with MD Anderson, and they’ve deemed our EMR excellent.

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