Your Practice and Technology
Electronic Communication Unlikely to be Widely Adopted by Physician PracticesStudy finds that patients like medical practices' use of electronic communications, but roadblocks to widespread use remain Patients like it and so do health organizations, but electronic communications in clinical care will likely not be widely adopted by primary care physicians unless patient workloads are reduced or they are paid for the time they spend phoning and emailing patients, both during and after office hours.
The 7 Deadly Sins of EMR Implementation
Congratulations! You've committed to an EMR, which is an accomplishment in itself. But the hardest part is still to come: getting it to work. From failing to plan to skipping out on training, many mistakes can be made during the implementation process. And although they may not be as juicy as wrath, envy or lust, the Seven Deadly Sins of EMR implementation could wreak just as much havoc. Steve Waldren, MD, director of the American Academy of Family Physicians' Center for Health IT, and Rosemarie Nelson, principal of the MGMA Consulting Group, gave us the worst sins providers can commit during EMR implementation. Continuing reading
How to Implement EHRs - Step one, assess your practice readiness. Continue reading
Where can we find a step-by-step approach to implementing an EHR and other software systems?
When implementing a new health IT system, hospitals, clinics, physician practices and other care settings must take a number of tasks into account. Developing strategies for chart conversion, staff turnover, technical support, ongoing communication among staff and continuing provision of quality care for patients may seem overwhelming. Continue reading
10 Best Practices for Selecting EMR Software
Your degree is in medicine, not computer science. Why then are so many physicians finding themselves focused on software these days? Government, payers and market forces are all pushing physicians to consider an Electronic Medical Records strategy. As if practicing medicine weren't challenge enough, now you need to adopt a new layer of technology infrastructure. Continue reading 10 Best Practices
Why EHRs Fail Today's EHRs mostly don't live up to expectations and sometimes they simply don't work at a particular site. Others seem to work but produce insidious, harmful effects that are rarely traced back to their true source. There are other projects that are superficially similar in scope and objectives but are extremely successful.
It is baffling to realize that some projects are successful while others are great disappointments. There must be an explanation. As people search for the culprits, they typically begin by "rounding up the usual suspects." Popular suspects include faulty requirements, poor planning, uncooperative or hostile users, lack of standards, etc. The list of suspects can be effectively reduced to one: People fail, individually or acting in groups, to do something that they "should" have done. In other words, when things succeed it's because computers are God's Gift, when they disappoint, people are at fault. Read all of Why EHRs Fail
Does getting an EHR improve productivity for a Naturopathic practice? Wholeness Center, a multidisciplinary mental health practice with 12 practitioners and more than 3000 active patients in a single location, was looking to improve productivity and patient care. Since implementing EHR, productivity has increased by 20% while providing better patient care. Read More
Creating a Paperless Naturopathic Office: Electronic Medical Records
EMR Shopping? Finding Your Way in a Crowded Marketplace
Behind Closed Doors: Avoid These EMR Disaster Stories:
Lessons learned from implementations gone bad — as told by the vendors who’ve witnessed them
Lessons Learned: ‘My EMR Nightmare … And Why I’d Do it Again
I was an easy sale for a first-generation EMR, and I more than paid for it with my inexperience.
How I got Over My EMR Excuses: Everyone has a ‘reason’ for stalling the transition to electronic records. What’s yours?
Resources from the National Library of Medicine on EMR.
Center for IT Health
The Center for IT Health is a project of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and offers a number of online resources regarding Electronic Medical Records. They include step-by-step guides on preparing, choosing, implementing and maintaining EMR systems; online continuing education courses on EMR; and updates on the latest policy developments on EMR. Please note: some of these services are limited to AAFP members.
EMRUpdate.com
This independent web site hosts user-generated content regarding EMR. Users can read blogs about EMR, talk about ERM in web site forums, compare prices for different systems, and contribute to an EMR Wiki
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