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From the time your practice starts an EMR implementation, be prepared for planning, training, and budgeting to continue far beyond the original stage. "Enhancements to the EMR software will come along, and your provider group will need to choose the changes that will help improve care," says Julie Wright, MBA, CMPE, CEO of Sound Family Medicine in Puyallup, WA. "It's the practice's job to find out which ones are irrelevant, and what priority to give to those changes."