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Office Workflow

Physician Championing: The Iron Fist And The Velvet Glove (The 2008 NextGen Users Group, Part 2)

November 13, 2008

Switching gears a bit: I was honored to be a co-presenter this year, on the final day of User Group.
My colleague and I were curious about who would show up on the last conference day, especially after the late night festivities the night prior (Huey Lewis And The News, and KC And The Sunshine Band).
Thankfully, [...]

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How To Gut Your Office Of Inefficiency In ONE Move

November 22, 2007

Another nifty tip from the NextGen Users Group Meeting.
Dr. Cephus Allin spoke in some detail about it, as did at least one other presenter; I’m pretty sure this is passing into the NextGen cannon of “Successful Practices Do THIS — So Should You.”
It sounds so simple, but I can attest to its profound effects on [...]

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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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