From the monthly archives:

September 2007

You Don’t Have To Be A Headless Chicken To Keep Ahead Of Your Inbox

September 27, 2007

There’s a time to scramble, and a time to sit down and get deliberate.
When I first started working in a non-academic, community based practice, my medical director advised me to handle “tasks” on the fly: between each patient seen in the clinic, take care of 2 things, like a med refill, patient callback, or lab [...]

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Why You Should STILL Be Writing In The Hallway, Even With EMR

September 16, 2007

One of the beauties of EMR is that you can finish all of your documenting during a patient visit, if you so choose. You can type or click on the fly, and walk out of the exam room with your note completed; no more crib notes to fill-out at some fantasy time when you have [...]

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If You Don’t Fix Your Workflow, You’ll Hate Yourself Later

September 12, 2007

Getting your EMR implementation up to speed should be your primary focus for the first several months of use. But sometimes, the fastest way to fix your EMR is to turn the spotlight on the rest of your office first.
Case in point: working smarter with your office workflow, not harder.
Let’s say your practice runs fairly [...]

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Warning: Have You Doomed Your EMR To Fail?

September 8, 2007

Nobody wants to crash and burn their EMR.
It’s supposed to be pretty hard to do that, thanks to the built-in redundancy of most large scale systems. Your patient data isn’t going anywhere — in NextGen, for example, it’s backed up automatically on multiple servers. And while I’m more a fan of the nearly crashproof Unix-based [...]

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The 4 Keys To Understanding EMR

September 1, 2007

There are 4 critical themes that underlie effective EMR use, regardless of your hardware, software, or practice setup.
Understand them well, and you will save heaps of time, protect yourself better medico-legally, and use your EMR to its fullest — to the benefit of yourself, your practice, and most importantly, your patients.
Ignore them, and…well, you’ll be [...]

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