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Kathy Bizarro, executive vice president of the New Hampshire Hospital Association, says that most hospitals in that state are in the process of implementing some form of EMR, The Telegraph reported April 20.

This technological shift began in the 1990s as hospitals started computerizing information and is accelerating, Bizarro told the Nashua newspaper.

The technology isn’t cheap, however, and can range from thousands of dollars for a small physician’s practice to millions of dollars for a hospital system., Joseph Heyman, MD, board chairman-elect of the American Medical Association, told the newspaper. And implementing the technology isn’t always easy.

"A lot of the resistance comes from the physicians themselves. We're slow to adapt because we're creatures of habit," Robert Dorf, MD a family practitioner for Foundation Medical Partners, the group of Greater Nashua practices affiliated with Southern New Hampshire Medical Center, told the newspaper.

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