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Response To Medicare On Succesful EMR Adoption: NOT A Price Issue

November 8, 2007

There’s a fascinating article on the EMR and HIPAA blog that I couldn’t pass up.
It addresses one governmental (i.e. Medicare) solution to the traditionally low adoption rates of physicians of EMR’s: lower the upfront costs to essentially zero with the VistA system built by the Veterans Administration.
The clincher for me was the following observation:
While Medicare’s [...]

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From The NextGen Users Group Meeting, Day 2: Implementation Secrets Of Joseph Stalin

November 7, 2007

I’ve never read anything by Joseph Stalin, but I gather he’d be much in demand for implementing EMR’s. From the management side, not the physicians.’
Dr. Cephus Allin’s presentation today, which referenced the late Soviet dictator, was titled How To Go From Paper To An EMR. It totally rocked; I wish I’d attended his other session, [...]

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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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