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EMR 101, Part 2: The 80/20 Rule

March 6, 2009

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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Some Words Of Encouragement For New Users

August 5, 2008

In this neck of the woods, there’s a goodly number of folks who’ve taken the plunge, and adopted an EMR.
Cold sweats, galore.
With that in mind, here are some thoughts from a fellow user who’s been there and done that, to remind you that you can, too!

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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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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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Warning: Have You Doomed Your EMR To Fail?

September 8, 2007

Nobody wants to crash and burn their EMR.
It’s supposed to be pretty hard to do that, thanks to the built-in redundancy of most large scale systems. Your patient data isn’t going anywhere — in NextGen, for example, it’s backed up automatically on multiple servers. And while I’m more a fan of the nearly crashproof Unix-based [...]

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