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EMR’s And American HealthCare: Just Because It’s Impossible Doesn’t Mean It’s Complicated

October 21, 2008

There’s an awful lot going on these days.
Increasing awareness of the plight of American Medicine. Costs way up, access questionable, uninsured numbers growing. Primary care disappearing, and inverted in proportion to specialist:PCP ratios in other countries. The Graying of America. Talk about universal health care. Healthcare costs as being the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy [...]

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Is Google The Answer To EMR?

April 25, 2008

What would the perfect…or rather, a nicer EMR look like?
I take issue with that recent FPM opinion piece by Dr. Christine Sinsky, “e-Nirvana: Are We There, Yet?”
As an EMR consultant who works with both physicians and an MSO, I find it lopsided and unhelpful.
Yes, I’d like my EMR to be seamlessly integrated with my personal [...]

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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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From The NextGen Users Group Meeting: EMR For Small Groups, Part 2

November 5, 2007

I’m here at the annual NextGen Users Group Meeting, in Orlando, FL. While I hope to get the skinny on making my group’s NextGen EMR sit up, beg, and perform like a lonely Australian Sheepdog, my main mission is more generalized: to learn how better to assist new MD’s in successfully adopting this, or any, [...]

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