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Do You Make These Mistakes And Run Behind?

July 13, 2009
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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 [...]

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The EHR “F” Word That Nobody Wants To Talk About

May 17, 2009
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Actually, pretty much everybody who’s been on EHR for a while talks about it. Sometimes loudly, to anyone who will listen.

F-R-A-U-D.
As in, “Your documentation says you did that, but you didn’t really.”
Did you?

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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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