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Here are the principles of a medical home. What aspects of EMR are need to accomplish them? Personal physician - each patient has an ongoing relati... with a personal physician trained to provide first contact, continuous and comprehensive care. – the personal physi... leads a team of individuals at the practice level who collective... take responsibility...

Performance. What are the best indicators of a high performing health care system? What are the indicators of a high performing medical office? Who determines these things? Performance indicators to an insurer ( A1c's) and an IPA ( mammo rates) might be different than that of a patient (time spent with doc). Which ones should be focused on? The...

One of the ways to speed up the documentation process is to have someone other than the MD enter in the HPI. We have seen examples of RN's, MA's, patients, and others entering in the data and the doc then reviews the data. The pros are around saving time and the cons are around accuracy. There are also cons around building rapport with patients...

What's the fastest way to get data entered into an EMR? Is it a tablet with point and click or a desktop with free texting into boxes? I suppose a followup question is what method allows for capturing the best HPI? Free text is my thought. Also, if you are mainly writing notes for yourself (primary care) and if point/click is fastest then perhaps...

Let's pretend that all insurance companies vaporized. Let's also pretend that all malpractice attorneys succumbed to death by hemorrhoid complications. There were no longer coding and documentation requirements...... medico-legal worries...no P4P. Now, in this pretend world the only thing you were asked to do was to take good care of your patients...