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Let me say that having been there myself, I heartily agree with rjo55's comments. Most practices don't do the groundwork, are swayed by the vendor's siren song of 'less hours, more billables, more time on the beach sipping rum drinks...' and then wonder why it isn't working out like the brochure said.
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quote: What does "dismissed a patient from your practice" mean? John This means firing a patient from your patient panel, such that they will have to seek care elsewhere. "Discharge", "terminate" or "kick them to the curb" are other popular synonyms for the concept.
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Oops, I beg your pardon. I thought I had read in an earlier post of yours that you were an opthalmolgist.
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Dr. Gold, noting you are an ophthalmologist, perhaps you should ponder if your use of an EMR will help your defense if you are sued for perforating the globe the next time you do a retrobulbar block. Or if you don't believe me, ask your malpractice carrier this same question.
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So Dr. Gold, since you perceive yourself an expert on malpractice and the EMR, I would be most interested for you to provide some legal citations of the case law pertinent to EMRs proving useful in a malpractice case. Or for that matter, the case law supporting your assertions as to the lap scope or the FHM. And I am using the term 'case law' in its
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quote: Do you think in a decade or so NOT having an EMR will no longer be the standard of care in most communities? Lowell I think it will take considerably longer than a decade for EMRs to be considered the standard of care, particularly in the smaller ambulatory care environment. It may happen faster than that in the academic and large integrated
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As I have pointed out previously, I have 21 years of experience in healthcare risk management and malpractice claims defense. I was formerly the senior risk manager for a large medmal insurer in the Pacific Northwest. I am now the director of risk management for a large multi-specialty clinic and am running a captive risk retention group for malpractice
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A very good article, and I particularly liked the part about physicians buying an EMR on impulse based upon what they saw at a trade show. This happens more often than you think, and very often does not lead to good long-term results, particularly when it is a small number of physicians making that decision for the whole group. In terms of the Watson
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I am waiting for the first brave soul to post on the relative return on investment on the spouse vs. the EMR.
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Our e-prescribing tool is a homegrown IT application. Since we are doing our own coding on it, we are more optimistic about EMR integration. We are currently running a homegrown EMR, and are in the process of a 'make vs. buy' decision on buying a commercial off the shelf EMR vs. continuing to write our own. Since we see over 2000 patients a day and