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Peter Polack
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How long do you think it would take you to implement an EMR system in your practice? 3 months? 6 months? A year? Of course, this is a trick question. First, you have to define when the actual project starts. Is it as soon as you make the decision to go paperless? Is it as […]
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So, you’re thinking about getting rid of paper charts and switching to an EMR system. Is it really worth the cost and aggravation? Will it bring your people together or tear them apart? In the first of our EMR Video Tutorial series, we introduce the concept of “Going Paperless”. We take a brief overview of […]
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Every day, businesses lose valuable data due to everything from a broken water main to a natural disaster. Most of the time, there was no process in place to recover that data. Frank Polack of Eviton LLC discusses what businesses in other industries already know about disaster recovery and business continuity and how your practice can quickly get back up and running after an unexpected event.
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I recently switched from a Windows Mobile Phone to an iPhone because I like gadgets and I also like slick marketing. But as anyone who tries to mix Apple and PC technology will tell you, sometimes you exchange one problem for another. I had just gotten to where I could synchronize my calendar, contacts, and […]
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Recently, I received a social networking “friend” request from an employee. Without giving it much thought, I ignored it and made a point to discuss it with our practice administrator. At the same time, I wanted to acquaint myself with our policy on electronic communication between the doctors and staff. Turns out, we really didn’t […]
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Books give not wisdom where was none before, / But where some is, there reading makes it more. – Sir John Harrington (1615) A colleague once asked me, “Where do you [and your practice] keep getting new ideas from?,” and my response was, “From reading.” But not reading medical journals or ‘throw-away’ publications (although the […]
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Now that medical practices are joining the rest of the computerized world, they are having to deal such issues as office network security policies. As in most companies with a computer network, the weakest link is usually an employee who either inadvertently, or wittingly, commits one of these mistakes: Trusting outsiders too much – security […]
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Medical practices that are planning to get an electronic medical records (EMR) system in the near future will also need to consider whether they will be keeping their existing practice management software (EPM). Many factors come into play and we will discuss the pros and cons another time. For the purposes of our discussion, let’s […]
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No military commander likes the idea of getting to within sight of a goal only to see defeat snatched from the jaws of victory due to the mutineering of key personnel. If that sounds a bit melodramatic, well, folks in the medical world generally tend to respond best to military idioms, so it helps to […]