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Over the past eight months, I’ve started back in part-time internal medicine practice in Columbia, MD, doing mostly urgent care visits in coverage for other internists and family physicians in a private practice setting. I chose this opportunity because of difficulty finding a routine in Washington, DC (near my office) that could accommodate my erratic…

At the American Medical Association’s 2012 Annual Meeting, a resolution was passed to review the effect of computers in the exam room on the patient-physician relationship. The AMA has just published a report on the findings and the results are encouraging. The report is based on an analysis of 14 prior studies on the use…

If you are one of the 34% of physicians who responded to the EHR satisfaction survey (see graph below) in 2012, and stated that you were very dissatisfied with your EHR’s ability to decrease practice workload, you may have considered employing a scribe to assist with documentation in your EHR system. For some, this may…

Congratulations to Dr Richard Pantera, winner of the iPad Mini from the recent EHR satisfaction survey conducted in conjunction with the American Academy of Neurology. Dr Pantera practices at Association Professional Med in Visalia, CA.

From time to time at AmericanEHR  we receive books for review. Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare, edited by Lyle Berkowitz and Chris McCarthy, is one of those rare gems that bridges the gap between implementation and use of information technology, drawn from individuals’ experiences who have successfully applied those tools in clinical settings. At…

With the growing adoption of EHRs, EMRs, data repositories, and cloud-based computing, as well as a wide range of related technologies, clinical IT systems produce vast amounts of data. Understanding this information is crucial to the care delivery process. Medicine has transitioned from a cottage industry of small clinical practices with varying treatment methodologies to…