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Sherry Lightfoot, a licensed practical nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Mercy Fort Smith, joined Mercy on Sept. 5, 1980.

Doctors’ visits these days usually involve staff entering notes about your care into a computer, but what you may not know is your “electronic health record” – or EHR – can do more than store facts. It may one day keep you out of the hospital.

Kids are spending more time than ever looking at a computer screen. And the question many parents have is whether it will cause lasting eye damage.