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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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Physician Championing: The Iron Fist And The Velvet Glove (The 2008 NextGen Users Group, Part 2)

November 13, 2008
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Switching gears a bit: I was honored to be a co-presenter this year, on the final day of User Group.
My colleague and I were curious about who would show up on the last conference day, especially after the late night festivities the night prior (Huey Lewis And The News, and KC And The Sunshine Band).
Thankfully, [...]

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From The 2008 NextGen Users Group Meeting, Part 1

November 11, 2008

Once again, I’m attending the annual NextGen EMR Users Group Meeting on all that’s new and shiny in the world of high-end, integrated electronic medical record and practice management systems.
New faces and new directions this year, of course. And a terrific keynote address by Pat Croce, former owner of the Philadelphia 76-ers.
But this year, the [...]

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How To Gut Your Office Of Inefficiency In ONE Move

November 22, 2007

Another nifty tip from the NextGen Users Group Meeting.
Dr. Cephus Allin spoke in some detail about it, as did at least one other presenter; I’m pretty sure this is passing into the NextGen cannon of “Successful Practices Do THIS — So Should You.”
It sounds so simple, but I can attest to its profound effects on [...]

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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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