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How To Get Smart With Your EMR: What Your Vendor Can’t Tell You

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Any New Year’s resolutions, yet?

We’ve got a good one floating around the office these days: becoming more adept with the EMR.

“For goodness sakes,” said our nurse practitioner after being shown a keystroke shortcut. “What a time saver!”

“THAT’S the kind of thing we need to share with each other — shortcuts and tips it’d take forever to find on our own.”

What a concept: taking advantage of community wisdom. Something you can’t get out of your system’s instruction manual.

Something only you and your fellow users can make happen, once you get some momentum going.

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