Archive for April, 2011

Plan-Do-Study-Act and Meaningful Use

Plan-Do-Study-Act is a methodology for improvement. It’s the same basic theory about experimental sciences (hypothesis, experiement, analysis). Generally it works like this: Plan out how something is supposed to work. Do it Study the results Analyze how to make it better. Refine Plan….. For Meaningful Use, I think most organizations would do well to have [...]

Opiate Prescription, 2011

Here’s my presentation about opiate prescription for non-malignant pain for the local MS3s. My nifty ‘magic move’ animations to show grouping dont’ translate into slideshare all that great.

More Dragon with e-MDs

I wrote recently about Dragon 11 (not just medical) with e-MDs So I’ve failed dictation multiple times in the past — I’d say I’ve given a real try at least 5 times in the last 6 years. Improvements helped but I still failed.: A better microphone helped. (I hate putting a headphone on and off. [...]

Visit Summary Thanks

Thanks so much for signing up for my Visit Summary. You’ve already seen the instructions, let me know if you have any problems with making it work. jploudre (at) gmail (dot) com (Will that fool any spambots out there?)

Amazon Web Services

One of the first things I did when I got to start testing e-MDs 7.0 was look at the Visit Summary. I was horrified and delighted. Horrified at the layout, design and usability for patients. Delighted that Meaningful Use requires standards — I could fix it. My process of rewriting required setting up a server [...]