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In order to implement an electronic medical records (EMR) system, you must have ‘buy-in” from your staff. This means you’ll need firm commitments from the influencers at your medical practice, along with cooperation at all organizational levels. One Bad Apple Since one single naysayer can drag down everyone else down, it is important to intervene […]
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Unless you have been hiding in a cave, you can’t help but to get drawn into the debate on healthcare reform. Unfortunately, most of the time it is not so much a debate as it is a shouting match.
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If you are a doctor, or any professional for the matter, you have undoubtedly been flattered by an invitation to be a member of the prestigious fraternity known as Who’s Who (and come in a variety of flavors such as Cambridge Who’s Who, Marquis Who’s Who, the Who’s Who Registry of Academic Excellence, etc).
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Well, several of my colleagues said it was never going to happen, but not only are there federal mandates for the adoption of EMR but now the states are starting to push for it as well. If you still don’t think that EMR is going to happen….I just can’t understand where you have been living […]
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According to an article by Lou Agosta in B-Eye-Network.com, 80% of healthcare is delivered by medical practices consisting of only 1 to 5 doctors. And most big players in the EMR software system arena are marketing to larger clinics and multi-specialty institutions. Even existing and proposed open-source systems such as OpenVistA still require significant investments […]
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Much of the new regulatory information coming out of Washington is getting increasingly more difficult to translate into English. I was recently asked whether a medical practice could use Google’s free email service GMail instead of spending money on a mail server and its associated server software. After checking with our own head of IT, […]
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There is a very interesting blog post by Steve Brown that gives us a novel way of approaching the massive challenge that is healthcare reform. While politicians and pundits are arguing about how to spend stimulus bill money, nobody is thinking about how to improve the dissemination of information. This, after all, is the holy […]
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You gotta love those Medicare Advantage plans: lower reimbursements for physicians, more hassles for patients, AND they cost more!
