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Electronic Health Record Contracts Done Right

  |  Issue: June 2012  |  

 

Steven M. Harris, Esq., is a nationally recognized healthcare attorney and a member of the law firm McDonald Hopkins, LLC. He may be reached at [email protected].

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Adapted with permission from ENT Today (2010;5[10]).

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