UnChartThe Clone Wars – The Death of the Template? Definition Cloned – To produce a copy of; imitate closely Most of the EMRs we use today have templates, macros and/or the ability to copy and paste previous notes into current notes. The EMR I use can do all of the above. These options can help [...]
Posts Tagged ‘usability’
Fitting the WelchAllyn Spot Vitals into e-MDs
After I attested for 2011 Meaningful Use, my group decided to have the doc decide on some of the ‘re-investments’ in our practice. The second thing I got was the WelchAllyn SpotVitals Lxi. (Bigger monitors for reception was first.) I had been interested in this for at least a couple years. A while back, I [...]
Reduce Access Violations with Time Synchronization
Thanks to Jeff Grabenstein, MD, of Family Doctors of Oak Ridge. He’s been exploring this lately and wrote this summary. Jeff’s Current Recommendation (Free): NetTime Daily frustration with access violations I have been a user of e-MDs solution series since 2000. Many years ago I learned that I needed to know as much about computer [...]
Laboratory Template with Flowsheets
This is Chris Hunter’s Laboratory Template that includes links to appropriate flowsheets. Flowsheet links are ‘brittle’ so the exact wording matters. For my clinic the flowsheet links don’t work but it would be a starting point for making our own. Laboratory_Results
Practice Improvement 3.2012 Podcast
Thanks 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.
2 Column Visit Note Word Form
Mercy Moore has made a Word Form to create a 2 column visit note for printing for PCPs (to make it look shorter/more manageable.) [Discussion on SupportCenter][https://supportcenter.e-mds.com/ics/forum/Client/Common/ContentView.aspx?contentID=110220]. Mercy says: I had to put my name on top as we are only a one provider officeand it would have added more clicks/steps to note creation. For [...]
Encourage e-MDs to Fix Portal Usability
Update: This appears to be fixed as of today. Interestingly enough the new formatting doesn’t redesign the site but it makes exactly the change that I mention below. This makes it much more usable for patients. — Jonathan Ploudre, 1/25/2012 Portal has a usability bug that affects a lot of patients (anyone using Google Chrome, [...]
Usability of the Washington State Prescription Monitoring Program
The idea of the prescription monitoring program (PMP) rocks. Given that multiple controlled substances are potentially lethal, a prescriber or pharmacist should be able to verify other prescriptions. Transparency improves care. But it’s implemented with unnecessary friction. This is going to reduce how many busy docs or pharmacists are willing to go through the hassle. [...]
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 [...]
Deskilling
A recent study hits too close to home: “Deskilling and adaptation among primary care physicians using two work innovations” says, essentially, that as primary care docs try to use innovation like EHRs and clinical guidelines, we become less trustworthy to our patients, less confident. Or as I’ve put it elsewhere here: I don’t want to [...]
Unfocus: The mouseless plan
It’s difficult to get a visit summary done in real-time without tradeoffs. (Sarcasm alert.) I’m awesome at tech can totally get them done. Why can’t everyone just click quickly? Seriously, though, I end up having one of these options: Ignore the patient and what they are saying while I click away Dead Airspace while the [...]
Visit Summary Self-Hosting
Note: This is a post from 8/2011 — this article won’t stay up to date. If you are going to self-host, you need to pull original files off the server. When I first got e-MDs 7.0, one of the first things I did was look at the Visit Summary. As I went to lunch a [...]
e-MDs Rounds for iPhone Review
In 1998 when I started Medical School, I was the only person in my entire school to have a PDA — a Palm Pilot. At first it seemed like a toy to my classmates. But soon it became an unfair advantage. In my pocket I had info about essentially every drug, every disease, every lab [...]
Dragon Remote Microphone and mobile dictation
I’ve been waiting for this! Nuance has found a way to finally cut the cord on dictation. In the past, dictation could be done with audio files on a mobile recorder. It doesn’t really work as a workflow — you don’t see/correct errors until after the download. They offer dication over a remote connection if [...]
Rethinking Search in EHRs
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane for a moment. In the mid-1990s the Web exploded into mainstream. It started with a few sites with academic papers, recipes, jokes, etc. Suddenly it had more information than you could possibly get to. The rapid change in complexity was astounding. Into that spot came one of the [...]
