Do You Make These Mistakes And Run Behind?

July 13, 2009
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I’ve alluded to this in a past post: it’s not easy outlining the fatal features that will sink an EHR implementation.
Most EHR vendors prefer to focus on the success stories, the “best practices” of their star performers, and rightly so. “Never repeat a mistake,” my French teacher used to tell me (if “mademoiselle” isn’t pronounced [...]

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Not To Beat A Dead Horse…

June 22, 2009
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..but in case you weren’t paying attention to President Obama’s address to the AMA, you had better be getting thee hence to an EHR system.

This is no longer a matter of electronic records being an interesting but problematic alternative to paper charting. That hasn’t been the case for some time, by the way.
The President of [...]

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The EHR “F” Word That Nobody Wants To Talk About

May 17, 2009
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Actually, pretty much everybody who’s been on EHR for a while talks about it. Sometimes loudly, to anyone who will listen.

F-R-A-U-D.
As in, “Your documentation says you did that, but you didn’t really.”
Did you?

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What You Need To Know About Who Should Conform: You Or Your EMR?

March 24, 2009
Who Should Conform: You Or Your EMR?

Nice post on TempDev.
Who Should Conform: You Or Your EMR? encapsulates in one pithy question, the essential nature of the IT dilemma at the provider level.
Usually, it takes a more direct form: Why the hell should I conform to the EMR system — the machine — when it’s the proper role of technology to make [...]

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EMR 101, Part 3: Abstract & Delegate

March 8, 2009
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Closing thoughts on basic EMR proficiency: how to abstract key information and delegate workflow, to keep frustration to a minimum.

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