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Support Your Local Local Support

June 26, 2008

In this new age of modern, enlightened EMR-hood, there is no way around it:
You will have to get cozy with your IT support staff.
Really cozy. On better terms with them than your spouse, cozy.
Unless you want to be spending at least as much time working with your hardware, software, and systems integration issues as you [...]

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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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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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