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Why It’s Time to Review Your Workflows

An electronic medical record (EMR) implementation isn’t just about replacing paper charts with digital technology. EMRs also provide a perfect opportunity to review and improve your workflows. The result can be increased efficiencies—which means decreased costs. Your medical practice has probably been doing things the same way for a long time. Maybe you think you [...]
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gloDNA Helps Smooth EMR Transition

The process of implementing an electronic medical record (EMR) can be challenging for any medical group, in part because it’s about more than just IT. For example, resources need to be assigned to ensure that staff members have appropriate roles. One EMR provider, gloStream, achieves this with its innovative gloDNA process. Managing a major IT [...]
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Improve Patient Care with gloEMR

EMRs should help, not hurt, your practice and your patients. Many respondents to a new survey are worried that EMR implementation will lead to lower-quality care for their patients. But that doesn’t have to be the case. The 2011 National Physicians Survey, conducted in 2010 and updated in December 2010 and January 2011, surveyed 2,958 [...]
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Can You Afford an EHR?

Despite $20 billion in EMR implementation incentives offered by the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, there’s still a problem when it comes to calculating return on investment in health care IT, according to a recent Computerworld article. First, many health care providers have a hard time generating the upfront capital required to invest in [...]
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