Not To Beat A Dead Horse…

by Peter Beck on June 22, 2009

in Blog, MUST READ

..but in case you weren’t paying attention to President Obama’s address to the AMA, you had better be getting thee hence to an EHR system.

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This is no longer a matter of electronic records being an interesting but problematic alternative to paper charting. That hasn’t been the case for some time, by the way.

The President of These United States has laid it out, repeatedly and often:

  • Change is coming
  • Beans will be counted
  • Incentives will be aligned with desired outcomes

The federal government is setting the stage to make it so, and everything else is going to follow from there. “Lesser” entities, like insurance companies, are taking note.

So should you.
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Actually, pretty much everybody who’s been on EHR for a while talks about it. Sometimes loudly, to anyone who will listen.

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F-R-A-U-D.

As in, “Your documentation says you did that, but you didn’t really.”

Did you?

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What You Need To Know About Who Should Conform: You Or Your EMR?

Nice post on TempDev.

Who Should Conform: You Or Your EMR? encapsulates in one pithy question, the essential nature of the IT dilemma at the provider level.

Usually, it takes a more direct form: Why the hell should I conform to the EMR system — the machine — when it’s the proper role of technology to make my life easier?

Who’s the boss here, anyway?

The answer, of course, is that you’re asking the wrong question.

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EMR 101, Part 3: Abstract & Delegate

March 8, 2009
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Closing thoughts on basic EMR proficiency: how to abstract key information and delegate workflow, to keep frustration to a minimum.

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EMR 101, Part 2: The 80/20 Rule

March 6, 2009
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Part 2 of a 3 part series on EMR’s, on the key principles of Stage 1 EMR proficiency. The 80/20 Rule, or The Pareto Principle, can save you gobs of time, with just a few changes.

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