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Sometimes people say to me that they want to do what I do, so I thought I’d write about what it takes to be an independent consultant. Well luckily it’s not just me now, a couple of months ago I brought a partner (Ben) into the company which is awesome. So here are some of [...]

There was an article today in Renal Business Today (yes, it does exist!) stating that physicians are only use a part of their EMR. So, I ask “so what?”.
All computer users only use a small percentage of the available functionality of any given application. I’ve just scratched the surface of the new functionality in Word [...]

Yesterday I was implementing TempDev’s Child Health & Disease Prevention (CHDP) NextGen template package in a practice and got to experience the love of an old school printer the EPSON LX 300+ II Impact Printer. The State of California requires that the CHDP form be printed on 4 carbon copy sheets with a unique identifier [...]

I have gotten the ACCU-CHEK Interface with NextGen installed! We have this beautifully working interface, including dates!  Also, it works over the Thin Client which is always a plus.
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I attended a WebEx meeting with a group of NextGen users where one practice was proudly displaying the fruits of their hard work to several other NextGen users. The intent of the meeting was for the group displaying their templates to offer the templates to the other users for free (that’s right, free!).
The demonstration ended [...]

My partner Ben wrote this amazing tool to basically copy triggers from one field to the other. I don’t mean to plug the company’s work but here’s what I want to say. This tool has the potential to save quite a few hours of work a month. I know this has been a hotly requested [...]

On Thursday MacPractice announced that they can now capture charges using their EMR. Billers can approve and post charges with a couple of clicks. This just makes MacPractice so much more appealingto users. Now if only there was a PC version of MacPractice so it could be all around versatile.
Here is my favorite part of [...]

Analyze your workflow before you implement an EMR because whereever there are weaknesses, they will be magnified once you implement an EMR. So what I would recommend is to interview your employees and sketch our the major your processes in your office. Once you do this, look for ways to improve and optimize the process. [...]

I recently blogged about American EMR in Europe. This week, I ran across an article on the United Arab Emirates selection of Cerner for the Northern Emirates Ministry of Health.
TempDev has partnerships with a number of consulting companies, including a Cerner partner. Turns out the Cerner partner will be involved in the UAE roll-out. One [...]