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Implementing an EMR is probably the most difficult, significant, and potentially beneficial change a practice can make. The change has wide-ranging impact on the experience of everyone in the office, from physicians to staff, and to patients. When done correctly it can yield benefits on the quality of patient care, ease of charting, and improvement in revenue. When done wrong, it creates longer working hours, decreased revenue, across the board employee dissatisfaction with work, and encroachment upon the personal time. Making any change to a large extent is never easy, and most physicians describe starting an EMR in their practice as one of the most difficult organizational experiences that their practice had to face. This chapter will emphasize the practical tools and tips for implementing an EMR to increase your chances of success and minimize the pain. The recommendations in this chapter are drawn from the lessons we have learnt in implementing EMRs for over 30,000 physicians over the last 10 years. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. There are proven methodologies of doing it right. In this section, we will discuss how to assess the symptoms or aspects of a practice that need attention during a successful implementation, examine how to develop and deliver a treatment plan for those aspects of practice that is not limited to the first day of implementation but one that provides continuity of care to the health of your office in becoming proficient and maximizing the utilization of tools an EMR provides.
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.
– Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveler (1824)
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Kashyap, A. (2011). Implementation. In: Skolnik, N. (eds) Electronic Medical Records. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-606-1_5
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