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 [...]

As Ben has mentioned, I went to President Obama’s inauguration this week. While it was cold and we walked every where, it was definitely one of the highlights of my life. I’m so excited to see what types of health care and EHR/EMR policies will come out of his administration. I also thought I would [...]

We’ve been on a bit of a blog writing hiatus. Laura went to DC for Obama’s inauguration and I’ve been busy bringing a few clinics live. But when I saw a posting by Paul Land on the popular NextGen Yahoo Users Group, I knew I had to write something.
Turns out that FDA allows drug manufacturers [...]

Remember that whole blog I had the other day about how the government should lead by example? Well today they pushed the implementation of ICD-10 codes by 2 years. See, I feel like no one takes any regulation in health care seriously because every time they release a regulation, it always ends up getting pushed [...]

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 [...]

So this post probably isn’t the best one for a consultant to write but I’ve been thinking about things since Practice Fusion’s Dr. Robert Rowley (their Chief Medical Officer) has replied to our posts and there are quite a few things I like about this company and the way they do things. I haven’t used [...]

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 [...]