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From the category archives:

EMR

The Cost of Fear

January 27, 2010 American Medicine

I was talking to a fellow physician about a mutual patient. I had information that would help him in their care and he was taking the unusual step of asking me for my information. I was impressed.
“Could you fax me those documents?” he asked. ”Here’s my fax number.”
I scrambled to get a pen to write [...]

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How Much is Too Much?

June 16, 2009 American Medicine

Yesterday’s post generated a heated discussion on Twitter (and in the comment section here) about what exactly the patient should have access to see. Some readers have had bad enough experiences with physicians that they want to be able to see things themselves to assure what they are being told is accurate. I can’t say [...]

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The Sweet Spot

June 14, 2009 American Medicine

I have heard a lot of talk about ownership of medical information. Bloggers like e-Patient Dave, and Robin are strong advocates for patient ownership of their information. To be truthful, I get nervous when I hear people saying they own something I have in my possession (and I’ve blogged about this). The charts in my [...]

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Ask Dr. Rob about EMR

April 29, 2009 EMR

Really. No joke.
I am going to be answering questions about EMR Live on Kevin, MD at 10:30 PM EST tonight. I will put the Java thingy on this blog, but his invitation to me to guest-host his question/answer session gives me cause to compel you to go to his blog to do the damage…I mean, [...]

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Whose Chart?

April 13, 2009 American Medicine

Do patients own their medical records? Do doctors? Hospitals? Insurance companies? Area 51? Sanjay Gupta?
You hear this question put out there often, although not necessarily as plainly as that. People want to “keep my medical records online.” Google and Microsoft are trying to become a big player in the “Personal Health Record” industry with products [...]

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A Destination

March 29, 2009 EMR

Our office has been on Electronic Medical Records (EMR) for nearly thirteen years. We see a high volume of patients, keep our overhead down, and are able to be quite successful financially. All of the “EMR is impossible” and “EMR makes things worse” stuff you read around the web are disproved quickly with a step [...]

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Doing it Right

March 18, 2009 EMR

Electronic Medical Records are coming. The economic stimulus bill (furious spinning kittens notwithstanding) assured this.
Under the terms of the bill, CMS will offer incentives to medical practices that adopt and use electronic medical records technology. Beginning in 2011, physicians will get $44,000 to $64,000 over five years for implementing and using a certified EMR. The [...]

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Decentralizing EMR

February 26, 2009 American Medicine

Run in terror, all you who hate (not “hat” – dang, I need an editor!) EMR posts. Or at least save it for late night…it’s better than Ambien!
Thinking about my last post and reading some more articles, I think I am starting to have a shift in my thinking. Yes, I know some of you [...]

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