Category Archives: EHR Workflow

Clinical Groupware as Clinical Teamware for Pediatric and Primary Care Practice

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A great pediatrician or primary care physician (family medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, or general internal medicine) is caring, attentive, available and knowledgeable; a great pediatric or primary care office is full of people with these qualities; and a great pediatric or primary care EMR/EHR (electronic medical/health record) allows the doctor and staff to [...]

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Copyright Received for EHR Workflow Management Systems Criteria

Short Link: http://j.mp/cmsisv
I received a cool looking document last week, the copyright certificate of registration for the EHR Workflow Management Systems survey of features and functions.

A fan of open source and open minds, I license everything on this blog (and we everything on our product website) under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

I essentially registered [...]

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#HIMSS10 Best Ever: Due in Large Part to Social Media

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“#HIMSS10” was the hashtag used in tweets about this year’s HIMSS conference in Atlanta, March 1-4. Attendees searched Twitter for #HIMSS10 to follow a gigantic conversation. #HIMSS10, or more precisely the convergence it symbolizes to me, transformed my HIMSS conference experience.
I’ve been coming to HIMSS conferences for ten years. The added social media [...]

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Clinical Groupware: A Definition (Version 2.0?)

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A while ago I proposed the following definition of clinical groupware:
“Intentional care team processes and procedures pertaining to the observation and treatment of patients plus the tools designed to support and facilitate a care team’s work.” (emphasis not in original)
I received a surprising number of suggestions (but: Post! Post!). All food for thought.
I do [...]

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Usable Clinical Groupware Requires Modular Components and Business Process Management

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I predict:
Future extensible clinical groupware will coordinate delivery of EHR functionality to teams of users by combining modular components with executable process models whose usability (effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction) will be systematically improved using business process management techniques.
Let’s break this long and complicated sentence into parts, understand them, and then understand the [...]

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