by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 22, 2010 | Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records
My current practice is getting ready to go live on Electronic Medical Records (EMR) in just two short months, but it’s taken us over a year to get here. When I first started this job, we were supposed to go live with EMR in two months. After I’d had a...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 25, 2010 | Electronic Medical Records
CHIME is the professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. CHIME has produced a CIO-oriented publication providing details on how organizations should focus their efforts to implement EHR systems that will qualify for...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 24, 2010 | A Career in Practice Management, Day-to-Day Operations
All available appointments are full. All staff showed up for their shifts. No one burns toast in the toaster oven and sets off the fire alarm. None of the staff show up to work wearing flip-flops or pink underwear beneath their white scrubs. All patients have been...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 19, 2010 | Electronic Medical Records, Medicare & Reimbursement
I was fortunate enough to be listening by phone to the historic (yes, historic) announcement of the final meaningful use rules by Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary HHS; Don Berwick, MD, new CMS Administrator; David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator for health...
