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H1N1 vaccination clinic and EMR by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy 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 T ... Read on »

H1N1 influenza by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy 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 sec ... Read on »

Internet speed and quality of care by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy 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 Heal ... Read on »

New office by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy 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 ... Read on »

Of concrete blocks and EMRs by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy 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 fel l from the third floor on the back entrance of the ... Read on »

Summertime data entry by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy 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 in ... Read on »

Phase change by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy My moving date to the new office is August 22 nd 2009. We are getting very busy with the many details that go into the move. Informing everyone is very challenging. As soon ... Read on »

Reviewing and changing my scanning process by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I have changed my scanning process. My EMR company had provided software called "ADM" (or Advanced Document Management) in the past, but I didn't use it. The reaso ... Read on »

Quality improvement, year 3 by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Our quality of care for preventive services continues to improve. We have 9,985 eligible services. We provided 87.75% of these services, compared to 73.53% last year, an ... Read on »

Outbreak by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We are now in a Category 5 outbreak, with several cases of Swine Flu (H1N1) reported in Ontario. I went through SARS in 2003; my hospital was at the epicenter of the second w ... Read on »

The three year old EMR by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I now have a three year old EMR. I am way past that terribly disruptive newborn period, have dealt with the Terrible Twos, and am starting to reap some nice benefits from a m ... Read on »

The importance of communication by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I had a difficult day last week. A patient came in with two reports: one (from a downtown hospital) showing a decreased bone density, and a second (from a different downtown ... Read on »

The spread of EMRs by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We had our monthly departmental meeting recently; about 50 to 60 local family physicians regularly attend. These colleagues tend to be more involved in the department (teachi ... Read on »

Structure, process, outcome by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy An academic group I belong to has been having a pretty lively discussion on the initial difficulties with starting an EMR. There is consensus in this group (in which everyone ... Read on »

EMR transition for the second wave of physicians by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy My practice partner is continuing on his journey through the transition. It has now been nine months for him. He is definitely not a "techie", but has now adopted ... Read on »

What to do when your connectivity fails by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We had a long, hard look at whether to change to the new ASP model run by eHealth Ontario--eHO--(previously called Smart Systems for Health Ontario, or SSHA), or to continue w ... Read on »

Adding more machines by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy My partner's tablet just spent a month in the shop getting fixed, as there were several things wrong with it (bit of a lemon). It came back after major transplants, and is no ... Read on »

Workflow is king: how to maximize a Peer to Peer visit by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I did a Peer to Peer visit to some colleagues working in two large group practices, in another city. The visit really highlighted the value of reviewing and updating current ... Read on »

Upgrading our EMR software by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Our EMR software needs to be upgraded. The version we are currently on does not conform to the new OntarioMD requirements (Clinical Management Systems Version 2.0). We are g ... Read on »

Forms, forms, forms by Dr. Michelle G. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We certainly had quite a bit of audience participation at the talk Dr Stephen MacLaren and I gave at the recent Family Medicine Forum conference (EMR: the first year of comput ... Read on »

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