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Taking EPR maturity to the next level at St Georges

Fortrus customer St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust becomes the first major teaching hospital in the UK to be validated at stage 6 of the international acute Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM).

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