UnChartThanks to everyone who participated. I learned a lot about hosting a webex. The more I edited myself out of the podcast, the bettter it gets. Load in iTunes: There’s some sweet nuggets in here. So load it into your phone and listen during your commute.
Posts Tagged ‘autohotkey’
Practice Improvement 3.2012 Podcast
Where to start with Macros (and e-MDs)
Ah, too many clicks. Macros are one of my loves the last few years. Reduce a single thought into a single physical action. It’s not that I can’t click 5 times to do one thing. Actually, I’m pretty good at clicking. As I’ve mentioned in my article about becoming my patient’s data entry technician, I’ve [...]
How much time can Macros Save?
In the background of my computer, I’ve been tracking my work lately — at a very low level. How many mouseclicks? How many characters typed? Honestly, sometimes it feels like that’s my job description. I’ve been using Autohotkey for macros and abbreviations for most of the 3 years I have used e-MDs. I’ve got dozens [...]
Macro to add flowsheets in e-MDs
In 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 [...]
e-MDs Macros
Here’s my package of e-MDs macros. You can see the source and compile it with Autohotkey. Your “I’m done” makes me one fast dude, and I’ve used it for most of a year. –Keith Toms, MD. Hopkinsville, KY Why Download and install it on every computer in your company? Automatic typo correction for the ~5K [...]
