Power Your Practice

Robot surgeons, gamified healthcare and EHRs on smartphones and tablets may not sound like Asimov’s vision of the future, but compare a passage from Foundation with healthcare IT Google search results for a different perspective.

We’re not too far away from the societies he envisioned. The difference is our views and interpretations of the world grow inward, becoming more specific, with new technologies shrinking in size but growing in scope.

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You know all about Meaningful Use and the HITECH Act. You’re aware you must choose an EHR before 2015. You’ve even developed goals for using an EHR and how it will impact your practice’s workflows and processes.

It’s now time to identify and flesh out your practice’s EHR functional and technical requirements.

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A number of pre-Information Age concepts seem intimidating when adding a lowercase ‘e’ before them. In the case of ePrescribing, the apprehension is mostly unwarranted.

ePrescribing only means you’re electronically generating prescriptions via automated data-entry processes, using e-prescribing software over a network that links to participating pharmacies.

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Previously, I discussed using quality tools to improve the outcomes at a healthcare site. I chose to focus on the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle and laid out the details of the Plan stage. Today, I will complete the PDCA tool, focusing on Do-Check-Act.

If you have not completed the Plan stage, then your Do stage will either end in failure or be much more difficult to accomplish.

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