http://skyvisioncenters.com/blog/?p=113 by Dr. Darrell White Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:21:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://skyvisioncenters.com/blog/?p=113&cpage=1#comment-121 Beth W. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:20:20 +0000 http://skyvisioncenters.com/blog/?p=113#comment-121 I really like the way our office implements this tool. We have paper for the Dr and tech to write on like the "old days" and then at the end of the day this paper is scanned into the patients chart. Each paper is then verified to be in the correct place, is shredded and voila! Shredded paper for me to use in my bunny cage! The info is then easy to access from home, any computer in the office, and is backed up every night. We still do billing by hand, entering it into an electronic system but we therefore have one of our most fun office workers, biggest morale boosters and biggest laugh getters working for us! And we provide a job in a tough economy. I made sure when we thought about this that our Dr.s could look at the patient. I have always resented a doctor who spends more time looking at his/her typing screen than at me. Did you really see that tear in my eye, that worry on my face, that pain in my grimace while you were typing? I didn't think so. Beth W. I really like the way our office implements this tool. We have paper for the Dr and tech to write on like the “old days” and then at the end of the day this paper is scanned into the patients chart. Each paper is then verified to be in the correct place, is shredded and voila! Shredded paper for me to use in my bunny cage!
The info is then easy to access from home, any computer in the office, and is backed up every night. We still do billing by hand, entering it into an electronic system but we therefore have one of our most fun office workers, biggest morale boosters and biggest laugh getters working for us! And we provide a job in a tough economy.
I made sure when we thought about this that our Dr.s could look at the patient. I have always resented a doctor who spends more time looking at his/her typing screen than at me. Did you really see that tear in my eye, that worry on my face, that pain in my grimace while you were typing? I didn’t think so.
Beth W.

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]]> http://skyvisioncenters.com/blog/?p=113&cpage=1#comment-119 dwayne.. Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:09:44 +0000 http://skyvisioncenters.com/blog/?p=113#comment-119 Our pediatrician is on an EMR system, tablet PC's and all. After several reminders, they finally no longer show us the growth chart, they just tell us that the kids are OK. I am a technology guy, in a similar space (content management) to EMR and I think that deployment of solutions, and impact to processes are sometimes overlooked. I mean, they start out with good intentions, but is the patient experience REALLY reviewed and analyzed? And what about system failure, there needs to be more thought put into, "OMG, the systems are down, what do I do now..!!!" EEK. It happened, I saw it, I laughed, then I got pissed. Why, no alternate reasonable process identified. It was like time stopped and couldn't move forward until the systems came back online. Think people, patient experience, alternate manual processes might make sense! Adios. Our pediatrician is on an EMR system, tablet PC’s and all. After several reminders, they finally no longer show us the growth chart, they just tell us that the kids are OK. I am a technology guy, in a similar space (content management) to EMR and I think that deployment of solutions, and impact to processes are sometimes overlooked. I mean, they start out with good intentions, but is the patient experience REALLY reviewed and analyzed? And what about system failure, there needs to be more thought put into, “OMG, the systems are down, what do I do now..!!!” EEK. It happened, I saw it, I laughed, then I got pissed. Why, no alternate reasonable process identified. It was like time stopped and couldn’t move forward until the systems came back online. Think people, patient experience, alternate manual processes might make sense! Adios.

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