Tag: EMR
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Some Ideas for a Healthcare Dashboard
When I’m at work, I sometimes think about having the perfect healthcare dashboard. I use EPIC at work, and for the most part it’s adequate. But the dashboard that I see each day when I open EPIC is not useful to me at all. I’m not able to easily customize it, and so I just…
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The Cost of Implementing EMRs
A NYT article today points out some of the current problems with digitizing health records. It focuses on the potential for fraud and abuse by hospitals around coding and billing. But what about the potential for abuse by the companies that sell EMR technology?
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Follow the Money
At the end of my rant about sloppy physician’s orders, I asked the question, “How do you get beyond that kind of apathy?” May, whom I have a great deal of admiration for, said, “i know that clearly looks like apathy, but it could also mean something else. i maybe apathetic about the issue, but…