UnChartAfter 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 [...]
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Ideal Panel Size Report
A few years ago the AAFP had an article, How Many Patients Can One Doctor Manage?. This report can be used for dicussions about relative panels in a practice. Which doctors have availability that matches up with their assigned panels? Who is over-paneled? Who is under-paneled? This crystal report for e-MDs has 4 different tables [...]
Appointment Status by Month
Bill Sweeney of Mid State Health wrote this report. This shows normal vs new patients per month. It also includes distinct patients in that time. Appointment Status by Month
Portal Patients (email and expiration dates)
Here’s another report by Bill Sweeney from Mid-State Health. Bill creates awesome flat file reports. This is just begging for some simple list work in Excel (See my Data-Driven Practice page). In my practice we didn’t fully realize how expiration dates worked. We used 1 year later — now patients portal is expiring. We need [...]
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 [...]
Visit Summary 7.2.1
It’s been just over a year since I was appalled at the default Visit Summary. The original visit summary disengages a patient in her care. It sets up barriers like 3/4 of a page of junk before the actual content begins. So that night as a proof of concept, I cleaned up the Visit Summary. [...]
Medicare e-Rx Report
The Medicare e-Rx code drove my practice crazy last year. We e-prescribe all the time and many of us successfully attested for Meaningful Use. But the e-prescribing rule doesn’t allow for tracking that way. Instead it requires a bonus g-code be submitted. Please, Medicare, stop the madness! Sara Evans rightly recognized this as a reporting [...]
Checked in by Date Range Report
Here’s a report by Bill Sweeney from Mid-State Health. It generates a nice flat file list of appointments that you can select by date. Includes check in time, date, check out time, and optionally who did the check in. I love ‘flat file’ reports like this — it allows you to do your own analysis [...]
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 [...]
Letters to PCPs
This report is a doozy. It solves a quality issue: keeping the PCP in the loop. As a family doctor, I can tell you which practices have a foolproof system for sending me letters and which ones I have to nag and waste time repeatedly requesting records when I referred them. If you’re a consultant [...]
Interfacing Devices to e-MDs
John Crankshaw mentioned a process for interfacing devices to e-MDs (without having to buy the more expensive models that are supported.) Printable Word Document Take it away Dr. Crankshaw…. Using the Docman Batch Import Utility as an Interface Our office uses the Docman Batch Import Utility along with a tiff converter, zan image printer, to [...]
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, [...]
Portal Layout Bug
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 Why does portal look like that? Let’s do some ancient history. More than 10 years [...]
Cleaner SQL Backups — Automatic Log Out
I don’t always log out and shutdown my computer every day. Partly because things change and sometimes I’m gone. I don’t shutdown because I often log onto my machine from home (so it needs to be powered on). I don’t plan learning to logout. It’s nice to come back to the machine (via RDP) with [...]
Quick Feedback with Google Forms
Fred Wilson, a Venture Capitalist, has a great blog post about continuous feedback. At a small startup they ask: What’s three things we’re doing well at? What’s three things we need to do better? Getting that type of feedback on a regular basis allows you to spot issues quickly. Or exploit strengths to do really [...]
