UnChartIn our clinic we wanted to use vitals flowsheets but they were turned on in most charts. We have about 15K patients. So if it takes 15 seconds to open a chart and turn it on, you’ve got 62 hours of mindless clicking for someone to do. e-MDs has a script (SQL) with this functionality [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Health Stats, 2010
Percent of people who avoided or delayed care, by insurance We’re all so busy with day to day that’s easy to overlook things. Yearly, the govenment puts out this suumary of health. Hundreds of pages of useful stats. Although Meaningful Use will focus us all on certain measures (and definitely certain PQRI measures, too), here’s [...]
Meaningful Click for e-MDs
With Meaningful Use there will be a lot more clicking in life. Making sure that a patient’s chart is up to date (Problems, Allergies, Medications, etc) is more important than ever. Especially now that patients will be getting copies of their clinical summaries with many visits. Meaningful Click is an app for Docs using e-MDs [...]
Meaningful Use Map and Kickoff
Jargon really complicates Meaningful Use discussions. When talking about prescriptions, say, one person might be thinking about the input (CPOE) while another is thinking about transmission (electronic). Or one person talks about clinical decision support while the other hears clinical reporting. Here’s my solution. Print this out huge and put it in your conference room. [...]
