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7 Quick Tests To Pick EHR Features That Doctors Will Like: Part 2

November 23, 2009

You’re halfway home. Part 1 discussed Tests 1-4, for picking physician-friendly EHR features — and avoiding those that would incite a riot.
5. Pare With Care
Eventually, you’ll feel tempted to carve away what seem like excesses — don’t do it! Not without checking at least three times!
Scut step reduction always gets a PASS, if [...]

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7 Quick Tests To Pick EHR Features That Doctors Will Like: Part 1

November 21, 2009

Imagine participating in an EHR advisory group for your area.
Every month or so, you meet to hammer out and vett new directions that your medical record will take. Which mods to bring in, when to do major and minor upgrades, how to educate physicians and staff about the transitions, and so on.
And every month, you’re [...]

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Not To Beat A Dead Horse…

June 22, 2009

..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.

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 [...]

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