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Provider Workflow

EMR 101, Part 2: The 80/20 Rule

March 6, 2009
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Part 2 of a 3 part series on EMR’s, on the key principles of Stage 1 EMR proficiency. The 80/20 Rule, or The Pareto Principle, can save you gobs of time, with just a few changes.

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Why Avoid Documenting By Texting? Because You Don’t Mess Around With Slim

December 23, 2008
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I’ve seen it in a variety of practices, my own being no exception.
Free texting to document a patient encounter.
You’ve got your clickers, the orientation spiel goes, and ya got your typers.
Me, I’m a typer, but the system allows you to document any way you like. To each his own, and I love the look of [...]

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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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