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The Ultimate Secret To EHR Success

February 18, 2009
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Back in the day when I was a burgeoning kendo student, I read an account about a visiting fencing master.
The writer, an established member of a kendo club, was looking forward like everyone else to the visit of this celebrity sensei. While having practiced kendo for nearly seven decades, the guest was appallingly fast, and [...]

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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 2008 NextGen Users Group Meeting, Part 1

November 11, 2008

Once again, I’m attending the annual NextGen EMR Users Group Meeting on all that’s new and shiny in the world of high-end, integrated electronic medical record and practice management systems.
New faces and new directions this year, of course. And a terrific keynote address by Pat Croce, former owner of the Philadelphia 76-ers.
But this year, the [...]

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EMR’s And American HealthCare: Just Because It’s Impossible Doesn’t Mean It’s Complicated

October 21, 2008

There’s an awful lot going on these days.
Increasing awareness of the plight of American Medicine. Costs way up, access questionable, uninsured numbers growing. Primary care disappearing, and inverted in proportion to specialist:PCP ratios in other countries. The Graying of America. Talk about universal health care. Healthcare costs as being the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy [...]

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