The acceptance of electronic health records has certainly been slower and faced more criticism than one might have expected from a trend that seemed inevitable in a world that has largely replaced paper with pixels.

But EHRs are getting some good press that its proponents no doubt believe is long overdue.

Recently, the doctor who discovered and exposed the hazardous lead levels in Flint's water supply credited EHRs by Epic Health Systems, the largest EHR provider in the country, for making the discovery possible.

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