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7 Quick Tests To Pick EHR Features That Doctors Will Like: Part 2

November 23, 2009
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You’re halfway home. Part 1 discussed Tests 1-4, for picking physician-friendly EHR features — and avoiding those that would incite a riot.
5. Pare With Care
Eventually, you’ll feel tempted to carve away what seem like excesses — don’t do it! Not without checking at least three times!
Scut step reduction always gets a PASS, if [...]

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Working Hard

October 26, 2009
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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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“We Are Living In Exponential Times”

February 22, 2009
Did You Know? video by Amybeth on Vimeo: a wakeup call for doctors, too, not yet on EMR, or encouragement for physicians already on electronic medical or health records.

Did You Know? from Amybeth on Vimeo.
Once in a while, there’ll be an info source that seems to have nothing to do with EMR’s, but is so mind-blowing and actually related that it must be acknowledged.
Hence: Did You Know?

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