Occasionally when you’re working in the field you run into products that make everyone’s life easier and you want to tell everyone about them because you like them so much. I have run into a new product that I like and doctors love: IMO.
One of the biggest problems providers face when going on an EHR [...]

Anyone who has worked on EHRs for any length of time has some great stories. To implement an EHR well, you have to get a deep understanding of the fundamental dynamics of an organization. Oftentimes, you find the good along with the bad.
Here’s some of the most funny and shocking stories I’ve heard, with many [...]

Most EHRs include some method of speeding documentation. They range from bringing data from previous encounters forward, documenting preset normals, or using some form of copy and paste. These tools can be literally built up to offer one-click encounters, which would be a huge win to physicians who seem to always have more patients than [...]

A good friend and mentor was known for sitting patiently during long, contentious meetings before finally asking “What problem are we trying to solve?” After receiving blank stares, she would respond with “I think we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s define the problem before we attempt to solve it.”
I consistently find problem definition to be [...]

NextGen is a template based EMR and often times it is easy to get caught up in wanting to make everyone happy. When I see practices struggle with implementation all I want to do is make their life easier, but sometimes I have to remember that I can’t develop my way out of every problem. [...]

Abstraction, the process of pre-populating EMR charts, is a huge win to ease physicians into the electronic chart. By adding historical information to the chart prior to the physicians patients, the physicians just need to review the old information and can then begin documenting a new encounter.
Traditionally, abstraction is a labor-intensive and costly undertaking. To [...]

So being a consultant I’m very passionate about the topic of our series on the Good, Bad, and Ugly of the consultant community. I have to say that after cleaning up “the ugly” as a full time employee and as a consultant, it makes me even more fired up. I’m excited to contribute to John’s [...]

So tonight as I was celebrating my husband’s birthday at Dave and Buster’s, I was using Twitter to see who was winning the Golden Globes on their Twitter Page. Twitter as Wikipedia defines it is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known [...]

As continuation of our series on the Good, Bad, and Ugly of the consultant community, we’ll answer another of John’s questions: Does unbiased consultant exist?
As a consultant, the answer is clearly no! Every consultant will have experience with certain EMRs, maybe even partnerships with specific EMR companies, and will consciously or sub-consciously drive you to [...]

John over at the EMR and HIPAA blog recently asked for feedback on the good, bad, and ugly of EMR consultants. Laura and I are starting a series of post on this topic and will be exploring the consulting world from both a participant and client perspective.
First and foremost, most consultants in the EMR realm [...]