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7 Quick Tests To Pick EHR Features That Doctors Will Like: Part 1

November 21, 2009

Imagine participating in an EHR advisory group for your area.
Every month or so, you meet to hammer out and vett new directions that your medical record will take. Which mods to bring in, when to do major and minor upgrades, how to educate physicians and staff about the transitions, and so on.
And every month, you’re [...]

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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 Get Smart With Your EMR: What Your Vendor Can’t Tell You

January 24, 2008

Any New Year’s resolutions, yet?
We’ve got a good one floating around the office these days: becoming more adept with the EMR.
“For goodness sakes,” said our nurse practitioner after being shown a keystroke shortcut. “What a time saver!”
“THAT’S the kind of thing we need to share with each other — shortcuts and tips it’d take forever [...]

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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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