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Operators increasingly adopt electronic health records to improve efficiencies and reduce costs, but it’s a tough transition. By Eric Taub New technologies that start out as frivolous extravagances often become necessities. In 1885, seven years after Thomas Edison filed his first patent for “improvements in electric lights,” 300,000 bulbs were sold in the United States. By 1914, more than 88 million were in use. The first flat-panel, high-definition televisions cost thousands of dollars, but the pricing has since dropped to a few hundred dollars. Today, it’s the rare home that …