Posts tagged as:

EMR vendors

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

November 21, 2009
Thumbnail image for 7 Quick Tests To Pick EHR Features That Doctors Will Like: Part 1

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 [...]

Read the full article →

Working Hard

October 26, 2009
Thumbnail image for Working Hard

Right now, things are a bit busy around here.
Lots of swine flu prep happening for the office and the group, including an upcoming talk at a local college campus. I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to get ahead of this thing using education. You can argue with irate patients demanding Tamiflu when it’s [...]

Read the full article →

Do You Make These Mistakes And Run Behind?

July 13, 2009
Thumbnail image for Do You Make These Mistakes And Run Behind?

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 [...]

Read the full article →

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 [...]

Read the full article →

The Ultimate Secret To EHR Success

February 18, 2009
Thumbnail image for The Ultimate Secret To EHR Success

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 [...]

Read the full article →