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Warning: Have You Doomed Your EMR To Fail?

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 operating system, 98% of the software industry finds Windows solid enough to design their EMR’s around. Short of a meteor strike or Armageddon, your EMR should function just fine, if used as designed.

What you do to it, however, is another matter entirely.

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The 4 Keys To Understanding EMR

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 reading this article again!

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