Category Archives: EHR Workflow

What Kind of EMRs, EHRs, and Clinical Groupware Would Captain Sullenberger Design? Intuitive, Usable, Safe

Short Link: http://j.mp/cHqfKc
I was there, March 4th in Atlanta, to hear Captain Sullenberger speak at the HIMSS conference about patient safety. It was more than just a great speech; it was a tour de force. His first speech post-retirement, the question and answer period included “thank you”s, questions, comments, and personal accounts that were, at [...]

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EMRs and EHRs Need to Solve “The BPM Problem”: Why Not Use BPM to Help Do So?

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If this blog has a symbol it’s two cars, one labeled EMR (or EHR, more recently) and one labeled Workflow Management System (or Business Process Management, also more recently), speeding toward collision (see Welcome! (EHR + WfMS = EHR WfMS), the post kicking off this blog). The result, of all those flying parts magically [...]

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Meet the Bloggers Revisited: Can You Identify Who Said What?

Short Link: http://j.mp/buB6Xj
At this spring’s HIMSS conference in Atlanta I went to the Meet the Bloggers sessions March 1-3 (see below for their blogs and Twitter handles). The panelists were informative, funny, and sometimes profound (in a change-the-world sort of way). I recently reviewed my notes and circled the most interesting (to me) comments.
I’ve not attributed individual comments to specific [...]

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Adaptive Case Management, Clinical Groupware, and Routine vs. Non-Routine Workflow in Pediatric Practice

Shot Link: http://j.mp/bNdXHu
I recently attended the Process.gov conference, specifically to attend a track about Adaptive Case Management. Before I tell you about adaptive case management and its relevance to clinical groupware and pediatric workflow, here’s some background and why I went.
Clinical groupware applications arrange along a spectrum from informal and ad-hoc groupware collaboration tools to [...]

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Tweeting Live from Process.gov: The BPM in Government Conference, April 14-15, 2010, Reston, VA: Looking for the Healthcare Angle

Short Link: http://j.mp/cUzpAf

Process.gov has four topic areas: State and Local, Defense and Intel, Civilian and Health, as well as Integration and Deployment. I’m looking for innovative current and future potential uses for business process management in healthcare.

Here are the most recent tweets from @EMRGroupware: Auxiliary account used by @chuckwebster for real-time, high-frequency, event-related Twittering (not [...]

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