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Is EMR For Small Groups?

October 27, 2007

There’s a pretty hot topic on the EMR boards right now, and that’s which EMR is right for small practices — or whether EMR is feasible for small practices at all.
The arguments go something like this: EMR’s are too expensive for the little guys, especially coming from the big vendors. The common ASP setup, where [...]

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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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Warning: Have You Doomed Your EMR To Fail?

September 8, 2007

Nobody wants to crash and burn their EMR.
It’s supposed to be pretty hard to do that, thanks to the built-in redundancy of most large scale systems. Your patient data isn’t going anywhere — in NextGen, for example, it’s backed up automatically on multiple servers. And while I’m more a fan of the nearly crashproof Unix-based [...]

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