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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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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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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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According to a recent report from McKinsey, the US Congressional Budget Office (or CBO, always described by the media as “non-partisan”) predicts that the stimulus incentives for EMR adoption will have a significant effect on medical practices in this regard, as compared to projections without the incentives. Part of this is due to the fact […]
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In order for your electronic medical records (EMR) implementation to be successful, you need to get buy-in from your employees. And for that to happen you need some key personnel involved from the get-go. It’s not possible for just one person to handle this task alone, no matter how talented he or she is. The […]
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Can EMR Save You Money?
A frequent discussion among colleagues, especially if they are in the same group, is whether or not a practice will ever realize a return on their investment in an EMR system. Of course, this is beside the point that the government is mandating the use of EMR by within the next ten years. While hospitals […]
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I recently read a book entitled Corporate Agility (Grantham et al, 2007 AMACOM). And although initially I thought it was just applicable to large corporations, I realized that in fact it could be very useful for the typical medical practice. It describes a process known as collaborative strategic management (CSM). This is a strategic approach […]
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Should your practice outsource IT (information technology) or hire your own in-house computer specialist? Whether you decide to implement an electronic medical records system now or five years down the road, the movement towards a practice management approach that makes more use of advanced technologies is already underway. At root, the practice of medicine is […]