From the category archives:

Mindset

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

March 24, 2009
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 [...]

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“We Are Living In Exponential Times”

February 22, 2009
Did You Know? video by Amybeth on Vimeo: a wakeup call for doctors, too, not yet on EMR, or encouragement for physicians already on electronic medical or health records.

Did You Know? from Amybeth on Vimeo.
Once in a while, there’ll be an info source that seems to have nothing to do with EMR’s, but is so mind-blowing and actually related that it must be acknowledged.
Hence: Did You Know?

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The Ultimate Secret To EHR Success

February 18, 2009
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Back in the day when I was a burgeoning kendo student, I read an account about a visiting fencing master.
The writer, an established member of a kendo club, was looking forward like everyone else to the visit of this celebrity sensei. While having practiced kendo for nearly seven decades, the guest was appallingly fast, and [...]

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Want Help Solving Your EMR Problems? Be Helpful!

March 13, 2008

To borrow a line from an old Paul Newman film, “what we have here is a failure to communicate.”
Whether you’re a physician, an office manager, an office staffer, or an EMR vendor/service provider, if you’ve ever sighed deeply or gritted your teeth, there’s a certain eye-to-eye linkage that just isn’t happening.
The stakes are too [...]

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What Medical Professionals Ought To Know About…Everyone Else And The Internet

December 3, 2007

Plain and simple, most medical professionals are dusty old farts when it comes to the Internet and modern technology.
You know: what everyone else is using to learn and talk about current events, their health, their job prospects, their friends and coworkers…the latest developments in their respective fields…
The critical stuff.
Health and Human Services Director, Michael Leavitt, [...]

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