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time management

How To Get Smart With Your EMR: What Your Vendor Can’t Tell You

January 24, 2008

Any New Year’s resolutions, yet?
We’ve got a good one floating around the office these days: becoming more adept with the EMR.
“For goodness sakes,” said our nurse practitioner after being shown a keystroke shortcut. “What a time saver!”
“THAT’S the kind of thing we need to share with each other — shortcuts and tips it’d take forever [...]

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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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You Don’t Have To Be A Headless Chicken To Keep Ahead Of Your Inbox

September 27, 2007

There’s a time to scramble, and a time to sit down and get deliberate.
When I first started working in a non-academic, community based practice, my medical director advised me to handle “tasks” on the fly: between each patient seen in the clinic, take care of 2 things, like a med refill, patient callback, or lab [...]

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If You Don’t Fix Your Workflow, You’ll Hate Yourself Later

September 12, 2007

Getting your EMR implementation up to speed should be your primary focus for the first several months of use. But sometimes, the fastest way to fix your EMR is to turn the spotlight on the rest of your office first.
Case in point: working smarter with your office workflow, not harder.
Let’s say your practice runs fairly [...]

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The 4 Keys To Understanding EMR

September 1, 2007

There are 4 critical themes that underlie effective EMR use, regardless of your hardware, software, or practice setup.
Understand them well, and you will save heaps of time, protect yourself better medico-legally, and use your EMR to its fullest — to the benefit of yourself, your practice, and most importantly, your patients.
Ignore them, and…well, you’ll be [...]

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