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EMR adoption

Not To Beat A Dead Horse…

June 22, 2009

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

March 24, 2009

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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Want Help Solving Your EMR Problems? Be Helpful!

March 13, 2008

To borrow a line from an old Paul Newman film, “what we have here is a failure to communicate.”
Whether you’re a physician, an office manager, an office staffer, or an EMR vendor/service provider, if you’ve ever sighed deeply or gritted your teeth, there’s a certain eye-to-eye linkage that just isn’t happening.
The stakes are too [...]

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What Medical Professionals Ought To Know About…Everyone Else And The Internet

December 3, 2007

Plain and simple, most medical professionals are dusty old farts when it comes to the Internet and modern technology.
You know: what everyone else is using to learn and talk about current events, their health, their job prospects, their friends and coworkers…the latest developments in their respective fields…
The critical stuff.
Health and Human Services Director, Michael Leavitt, [...]

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