Good lengthy article about how to transition the office or medical center...things are much more complicated today and it's not a world of "EMR out of the Box"...preparation and time management is a vital key....BD 

image "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

The above quote by Eleanor Roosevelt is the theme of our article and the hope these five facilities had when they opened up to ADVANCE and bravely shared their stories of EHR disasters and downfalls. One facility watched as money drained out of its practice and its patients switched doctors; another made its physicians' workday even more cumbersome than it had been in the paper world; and a third unknowingly put its patients at great risk just by updating its system. In the end, however, all shared one remarkable similarity: They never gave up on their EHRs. image

As the go-live date approached, Julie Barto, BS, MS, administrator, started getting nervous. Absolutely nothing had been scanned in. They hadn't made a single template, and no one had any idea what their EMR tablets even looked like.

"We had older physicians who didn't know how to use a computer. They hadn't even e-mailed before this! Things like how to turn on the tablet, we didn't even know that," Barto said. "We knew nothing, absolutely nothing."

ADVANCE for Health Information Executives | Editorial

Source:  http://www.tabletpctalk.com/newsarticles.shtml#newsitemEkpZpVAFplEzrVWHBp

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