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[New video added] MPT Podcast 19 – EHR Adoption Without Productivity Loss, with guest Pat Williams, VP of Business Development for Entrada Health This Issue (8:04): Some tools for fast-tracking EHR adoption How digital dictation can improve workflow Can your EMR system replace scribes? Right-click to download
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MPT Podcast 11 – Five Best Practices for EHR Implementation, with guest Chris Mertens, VP of the Personal Systems Group for Hewlett-Packard. Click the button above to watch the video slideshow podcast, click below for the audio podcast. This Issue (length 10:18): Why you should take a good look at your processes before purchasing an […]
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Who: DotMed.com What: Research suggests that few adopters understand what EHR/EMR implementation actually involves. In its latest study, CompTIA, a trade association representing the IT industry, found that 56 percent of health care providers, consisting mostly of medical practices with two to nine doctors and hospitals/health centers, felt unprepared for the transition from paper records […]
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Previously I wrote about how information technology (IT) personnel are an increasingly important part of medical practices as EMR becomes a fact of life, as well as the challenges that administrators face in recruiting and hiring these individuals. A question I commonly receive is whether or not it is better to outsource IT or hire […]
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Who: Virtual-Strategy Magazine What: simplifyMD, an Atlanta-based EHR software vendor, claims that medical practices can implement its product the same day they go through a demonstration, thanks to its simpleStart™ program. It incorporates the documents and charting elements that the doctors and staff are already using and familiar with. “Medical Practices can now go from […]
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A frequent criticism of EMR (electronic medical records) use in medical practices – typically coming from those who have not used EMR – is that it causes the doctors to become impersonal. The typical picture described is one of a practitioner with his or her back to the patient, pecking away at the keyboard. Most […]
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[Video 6] – We discuss the advantages of an integrated pm/emr system (practice management + electronic medical records) over a standalone billing and emr system.
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EMR projects get ‘hijacked’ every day. Some get hijacked by vendors, some get hijacked by consultants and, yes, some even get hijacked by the very doctors who invested in the project in the first place – an investment that was supposed to help them treat their patients, run their offices and collect their money. While […]