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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>EMR Forum</title><link>https://emrupdate.com/forums/3.aspx</link><description>Discussion Forum for Electronic Medical Records Software. Your experience, recommendations, gotcha's, ideas &amp;amp; comments.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Debug Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>EMR News 07/09/2011</title><link>https://emrupdate.com/forums/thread/123256.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:54:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">20e05eeb-3865-4fb3-88f6-9927a35687dd:123256</guid><dc:creator>Nick Harrington</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://emrupdate.com/forums/thread/123256.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://emrupdate.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=3&amp;PostID=123256</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dssinc.com/PressRelease14.html"&gt;Ramsey County Mental Health Center Announces Go Live of DSS, Inc.’s Fully Integrated EHR System&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HitsphereFeeds/~3/Vcj4tjKuHHY/90.html"&gt;Is your practice EHR-ready? 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