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The Ultimate Secret To EHR Success

February 18, 2009
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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 [...]

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Tom Daschle, HHS Secretary-designate: Keep It Coming, Love

January 15, 2009
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In what seems like a consistent extension of President-elect Obama’s recent statements on healthcare, Tom Daschle called for a rethinking of the problem, and constructive action to fix it, during a January 8th Senate Hearing.
This AAFP article summarized his statements nicely. As a primary care physician involved in medial IT and EMR’s, it’s difficult to [...]

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Response To Medicare On Succesful EMR Adoption: NOT A Price Issue

November 8, 2007

There’s a fascinating article on the EMR and HIPAA blog that I couldn’t pass up.
It addresses one governmental (i.e. Medicare) solution to the traditionally low adoption rates of physicians of EMR’s: lower the upfront costs to essentially zero with the VistA system built by the Veterans Administration.
The clincher for me was the following observation:
While Medicare’s [...]

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