February 2013

For the Record

by Rob on February 26, 2013 · 8 comments

in EMR, Health Care - How it's Broken, The Healthcare Problem

For the record: I am a geek.  I love technology.  I adopted EMR when all the cool kids were using paper.  Instead of loitering in the “in” doctors lounge making eyes at the nurses, I was writing clinical content and making my care more efficient.  I was getting “meaningful use” out of my EMR even when [...]

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Death of an Evangelist

by Rob on February 24, 2013 · 6 comments

in EMR

It feels like part of me is dying.  I am losing something that has been a part of me for nearly 20 years. I bought in to the idea of electronic records in the early 90′s and was enthusiastic enough to implement in my practice in 1996.  My initial motivation was selfish: I am not [...]

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Progress Report

by Rob on February 17, 2013 · 3 comments

in My New Practice

I am not sure if my lack of blogging is a good sign or a bad one.  It’s been a week and a half since I started my new practice and I finally am getting this chance to come up for air.  It’s been an über hectic and very draining time, but I am happy [...]

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Happy Misfortune

by Rob on February 7, 2013 · 10 comments

in My New Practice

I was furious.  I went to the office on Sunday to see what work the electrician had done (and to discuss decor issues with my wife), and my office was deserted.  The inspection was supposed to happen on Monday, allowing me to get furniture in the office and see patients on Tuesday.  A text message [...]

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Welcome!

by Rob on February 4, 2013 · 4 comments

in My New Practice

This letter is being sent out to people who have signed up to be part of my new practice.  Links have been removed so I don’t get a lot of riff-raff filling out my forms.   Welcome! Thanks for joining my practice.  I hope it is a doorway to a whole new experience in health [...]

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