Learning To Tune Out Extraneous Information

Paul Roemer, VP Client Strategy, Electronic Ink.

To read and complete this post, you may use the following tools; graph paper, compass, protractor, slide ruler, a number two pencil, and a bag of Gummy Bears from which to snack. The following problem was on the final exam in my 11th grade physics class. Let us give this a shot and then see if we [...]

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Your EHR Works As Designed, And That’s The Problem

Paul Roemer, VP Client Strategy, Electronic Ink.

What could we have done differently, is the question I hear from many of the healthcare executives with whom I speak about the productivity loss resulting from their EHR. My answer, nothing. I am willing to bet that in most cases your EHR was implemented correctly. I am just as willing to bet that the [...]

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The Real Reason Your EHR Failed, And What To Do About It

With EHRs in and going in, here is my take on what we may be facing.  To keep the conversation as simple as possible, let us focus just on the EHR and — for the purpose of this discussion — set aside the discussion of Meaningful Use, Certification, and interoperability. EHR we learned, is a [...]

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User Adoption Versus EMR Usability

There is always a great deal of discussion about hospitals controlling costs. Articles on the subject seem to infer that the idea of controlling costs, should one elect to do so, dwell in the rarefied realm of innovation. Here is a dirty little secret—from the moment your hospital opened its doors the hospital has been [...]

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Standardization Lies Beyond The Clinical Realm

As a parent I’ve learned there are two types of tasks — those my children won’t do the first time I ask them, and those they won’t do no matter how many times I ask them. Here’s the segue. Let’s agree for the moment that workflows can be parsed into two groups — Easily Repeatable [...]

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Fitting Your Square Hospital into a Round ACO Hole

I have spent time over the past few weeks speaking with healthcare executives to get their perspective on ACOs, also known as Attorneys and Consultants Opportunities. For the most part, people are in general agreement when it comes to describing the function of an ACO. So much for the good news. Where the process breaks [...]

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Two HIEs Are One Too Many

According to Wikipedia, Health information exchange (HIE) is defined as the mobilization of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a region, community or hospital system. HIE provides the capability to electronically move clinical information among disparate health care information systems while maintaining the meaning of the information being exchanged. That seems really straight forward, at least to [...]

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