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Signing off 31 Jan 2010 | 06:03 am
The time has come for me to sign off. As you can see in the title, "I will be implementing an Electronic Medical Record in my practice, starting in March 2006. This blog is a diary of what happened"....
Not yet good enough 5 Jan 2010 | 04:14 pm
Here we are, at the start of a new year. This seems to be a good time to take stock of things. It has now been almost four years that my group started using an EMR. My office is much further along ...
Upgrading the office hardware 6 Dec 2009 | 02:36 pm
My tablet is now 3 1/2 years old; that's old for a computer! It is still working well, but I expect it to have an increasing number of problems over the next few months. It is time to get a new mach...
H1N1 vaccination clinic and EMR 11 Nov 2009 | 03:07 am
Our H1N1 vaccination clinics are now running at full capacity, five afternoons a week. All Family Health Team physicians have volunteered to staff the clinics. Family Health Team RNs have been withdra...
H1N1 influenza 31 Oct 2009 | 11:30 am
There are increasing numbers of people with H1N1 influenza reported in the past two weeks. This feels a bit like SARS did in 2003 (my hospital was at the epicentre of the second Toronto outbreak). How...
Open Access 28 Sep 2009 | 08:22 am
We are continuing to implement new things in my office. Here you see an initiative to decrease the number of days that patients have to wait until they get an appointment. We count the "Third Next Ava...
Internet speed and quality of care 9 Sep 2009 | 01:25 pm
I have a fast connection to the Internet in my new office. The reason for this is that we have several practices on our floor, with a lot of physicians, staff and Allied Health Providers. eHealth Ont...
New office 25 Aug 2009 | 01:40 pm
I love my new office! We spent the weekend moving in, unpacking, hanging things on walls, and installing and testing all the IT we have. Our IT guy spent several days at the office making sure that ev...
Of concrete blocks and EMRs 18 Aug 2009 | 02:16 pm
I am moving to my new office on August 22nd, next Saturday (or at least that was the plan). A 20 foot block of concrete fell from the third floor on the back entrance of the building where my new offi...
Summertime data entry 10 Aug 2009 | 07:37 am
I am now back from vacation. Our summer students did a lot of work while I was away. In the previous post, I mentioned that we have missing data on smokers; we also found inconsistencies in terms of ...
