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Implementing and maintaining EMR
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.
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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.
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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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