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Should Your Company Have Clear Policies About Facebook in the Workplace?

After recently receiving a friend request from a staff member, I decided to speak with the employee in person to discuss my thoughts on the matter. As I’ve heard some warning tales from people regarding social networking sites at work, I thought it may not be such a good idea for doctors and employees to [...]

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Realizing Your Electronic Medical Records Implementation Plan

So often I hear the question, “Why is it taking you so long to implement your EMR?” It is true that our scheduled eighteen month project did actually take three years in order to implement. However, although our gingerly approach seemed overly cautious to some of our associates, Project Management professionals commended our attention to [...]

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Some Ways to Help Your EMR Implementation Succeed

Recently I met with colleagues; some practicing physicians in both Family Practice and Neurology. Both hadn’t yet gone over to EMR. There are two primary reasons that they haven’t gone ahead with EMR:
Where should I begin? We often wonder this, and especially so if we have friends or colleagues who have tried but were unsuccessful [...]

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Some Ways to Avert Mutiny When Implementing EMR at Your Practice

It’s rare to face a task as large as electronic medical records implementation at your practice; that is, unless you’re truly unlucky and must deal with a malpractice lawsuit or dismiss a doctor from your organization. In financial terms, the cost and time are truly significant. According to numerous sources, the rate of failure can [...]

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Have The Right People In Place For EMR Implementation

As we discussed a while back, one important part of a proper implementation of an EMR (electronic medical records) system is staff involvement. This simple fact can’t be over-emphasized, as no single person can accomplish this task on their own, regardless of how good they are. You must be ready when problems begin to develop, [...]

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Choosing To Switch To A Paperless Medical Practice

Most medical practices now use an electronic practice management (EPM) system. Usually this means some type of proprietary software, something different than the old system of hand-written calendar notes. In the last twenty years, the EPM market has ballooned into a large industry, generating products which run on several platforms.
Unfortunately, however, although these systems are [...]

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Making The Decision To Go Paperless

Most of the medical practices are now using an electronic practice management (EPM) system. These products have typically been proprietary software, in a great departure from simple pegged ledgers and hand-written calendars. Within the last twenty years the EPM market has mushroomed into a huge industry full of products running on a variety of platforms. [...]

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