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Three AM. A night not fit for man nor beast. Billowing fog roiled out of the steam grates all but obscuring vast sections of the town. I arrived early to secure my place in line—my first tail-gate party since leaving college. The trunk of my car was loaded with my gear as I eased to [...] Read More....
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This occurred to me while listening to a report on NPR that was comparing the Kindle to the iPad. The comparison made regarding a study conducted to assess the viability of using the devices in universities as e-Textbooks instead of paper textbooks. The Kindle was tested for a year; the iPad was tested...
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HIT Strategy; without one, do not take out your checkbook. Buying what your neighbor bought, and assuming they did their homework, is not a strategy. Buying something because the sales-rep told you they had an amazing list of client references is not a strategy. These are shortcuts. Have you noticed...
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Have a vendor for dinner tonight. Fashion can be reinvented every 6 months, healthcare can’t. That’s plenty of reason to try to get EHR/HIT right. Remember this little principle; DIRT-FIT–Do It Right The First Time. Don’t know how? There are some who do. There is even a larger group who think they do...
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At the beginning of my final year of graduate school, during a prior administration, the school sponsored a seminar on how to dress for interviews. The take away from the seminar is the following: If you are interviewing with a financial institution wear a pin-stripe suit, white shirt, and a power tie...
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EHR Buying Guide—Vendor darts So, here’s the thing with what a lot of EHR vendors seem to view as the lower end of the food chain, chum worthy customers—Hospitals, IPAs, group and individual practices. Vendor darts. I can’t tell you the number of providers with whom I’ve spoke who’ve had to navigate...
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The link below takes you to a post written by Software Advice’s Chris Thorman regarding the market share for inpatient and outpatient EHRs. It is designed to be a collaborative piece, and Chris is asking for feedback and correction. I found it to be a well-written and helpful piece, perhaps you...
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Now before you get all upset about the sexist picture, at least read a little bit of this to see why I selected it. Yesterday morning, five miles into my run, I was feeling pretty good about myself. I had passed seven runners, had a nice comfortable rhythm, no insurmountable aches, and Crosby Stills...
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In Woody Allen’s movie Bananas, the dictator of the small country San Marcos declares that, “All the children under 16 years old are now 16 years old.” That was easy.
In the movie in my head, “The EHRs of Madison County,” I run customer service for a EHR vendor. Customers kept calling to complain. I...
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Carrie Vaughan, a senior editor of HealthLeaders Magazine published an article in the December 8, 2009 issue titled, “Tips to Build a Successful Vendor-Provider Partnership.” The link to her article is http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/page-2/MAG-243167/Avoid-the-Vendor-Upsell.
The points about which...
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The following is a guest blog by James T. Loynes, MD. During a recent call he told me about an EMR he wrote for his oncology practice. My initial thought was, “Just what we need, another EMR.” The more I listened, the more I thought he had something different, something that actually was...
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Below is the full article I submitted to HealthsystemCIO.com, Anthony Guerra’s outstanding site for healthcare leaders. As always, I am flattered that he finds my contributions worthwhile.
Is there a best Electronic Health Records system? Perhaps Cerner, EPIC, GE, or McKesson? For those who have...
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Some providers are changing their EHR system. Why?
Why indeed? What precipitates the need to change? I bet if you take the top five or seven EHRs, and compare them to a rigorous set of requirements you will find they all score within one standard deviation of the norm. You won’t hear that from...
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“There is no use trying,” said Alice;
“one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen.
“When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.”
There are a number...
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That’s a long time. There are those who suggest that statement sort of takes away any incentive they had to live forever. They wonder why it couldn’t be somewhat less restrictive like, “for the foreseeable future,” or “until one of us gets bored,” or “renewable every four years.”
Till death do you part...