practice transformation: a personal history ehealth initiative: connected communities learning forum...
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Practice Transformation:A Personal HistoryPractice Transformation:A Personal History
eHealth Initiative: Connected Communities Learning ForumApril 10, 2006Joe Heyman, MD Secretary, American Medical Association
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Influences
• Bridges to Excellence (Employers, “Providers”, Plans)
• P4P
• DOQ-IT
• AHRQ
• Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative
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Progress
• Great software and hardware
• Clinician comfort with computers and internet
• Easy set up of hard wired and wireless networks
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Paper Problems
• Phone calls
• Appointments
• Changing Demographics
• Problem Lists
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Paper Problems
• Medication Lists
• Record Requests
• Reports
• Prescriptions by phone and in office
• Checkout and billing
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Paper Problems
• Unreadable
• Tiny writing on charts
• Lost and scattered data
• Wrong office
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Think about this!
ExamRoom
MDOffice
FrontOffice
BackOffice
Your Practice
ExamRoom
MDOffice
FrontOffice
BackOffice
Your Practice
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Paper Problems
•As much as $16 per chart pull?
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Disturbing Concerns
• Our experiences in practice include• Incomplete information
• Alarming error rates
• Expense of time, energy, and money seemingly way out of proportion to benefits
• Decisions based on gut or tradition
• Malpractice claims that are related to documentation some 90% of the time
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HIT Happens!
• January 2001
• April 2001
• Fear
• Courage
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Why EMR a must for me
• Cost
• Efficiency
• Image
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When?
• Immediately!
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Why?
• Cost• Office Equipment
• Rent
• Employees
• Patient notification
• Reassurance to patients• Up to date
• Unique
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Who?
• Tom Sullivan
• Jeannie Marcus
• Massachusetts Medical Society• Michael Kelly
• PIAM
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What?
• My Software• Desktops
• Scanner
• Laser Printer
• Medem• Library of info
• Encrypted email
• PC Anywhere
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How?
• Bo!
• Network Router
• DSL
• Clearinghouse
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Disaster!
• March 5, 2002
• A day that shall live in infamy!
• The Agony• Paper . . . yuch!
• A hard day’s night
• Cynthia
• ActionFront.com
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 26 and 27, 1962
• Office Insurance
• The Ecstasy
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More recent major setback
• Hard Drive Failure in a RAID system 2/06
• What happens with your service contract
• Next steps
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This Weekend!!!!
• Laptop drive failure
• No Medem
• No way to contact my office computer
• No way to write this speech
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My System
• Digital filing of everything • EOBs
• Contracts
• Invoices
• Receipts
• Correspondence
• CME certificates
• Fee Schedules
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My System
• E-prescribing
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My System
• Website (Medem)• Interactive Health Record
• Appointments
• Prescription refills
• Online Consultations
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My System
• Banking and Paying Bills
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My System
• Payroll
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My System
• Scheduling
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My System
• Medical Record
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My System
• Billing
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My System
• Electronic record• Scheduling
• Documenting
• Receiving reports
• Scanning
• Coding
• Billing
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How much?
• Somewhere between $15,000 and $30,000 per physician on initial purchase including setup software and hardware.
• Return on investment usually within two years.
• Maintenance fees of about $3000 to $9000 per physician
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How much?
• Other choices• Buy and run remotely
• Subscribe and run remotely
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Performance
• Transcription Elimination
• Reduced paper management (chart pulls)
• More usable office space per square foot
• Error-free legible prescriptions
• Improved coding
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Performance
• Lab Interfaces
• Referral Management
• Guideline Compliance
• Quality Reporting
• Search by diagnosis, procedure, drug
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Performance
• Increased office efficiency
• Patients’ happiness
• Lower costs
• Accessibility
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Lessons Learned
• Do it now!• Hardware a bargain!
• Software increasingly more robust and expensive
• Many fantastic EMRs available
• One patient at a time
• Don’t duplicate paper world
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Lessons Learned
• Before you decide on anything, understand where you are today.
• Tour your practice and make sure you understand it all.
• Find out all the irritants you and your staff endure in the paper world.
• The worst thing you can do is recreate your present environment electronically!
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Lessons Learned
• Make sure the system you choose gets rid of as many of those irritants as possible.
• Visualize your future state before you decide.
• It’s just software and it’s constantly changing.
• It isn’t perfect.
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Lessons Learned
• Correlation between a particular vendor and success is not as important as the correlation between the office culture and success.
• Once you understand that, selection of vendor can be quick and easy.
• Most people don’t use all the capabilities of their software.
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Lessons Learned
• Connectivity will soon be very important.
• Every physician will use an EMR in less than a decade.
• The Electronic Health Record is a constantly changing organism with standards still developing.
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Lessons Learned
• Consider the advantages and disadvantages of system in your own office on your own server.
• Consider the advantages and disadvantages of system on the web.
• Company and support more important than software.
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Lessons Learned
• Workflow more important than nifty features.
• Use available resources.
• Get help from knowledgeable friends.
• You need a champion.
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Lessons Learned
• It’s great fun and exciting.
• It gives you more freedom, income, and joy in practicing.
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Lessons Learned
• Backup!
•Backup!!
•BACKUP!!!
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Lessons Learned
• Don’t underestimate the value of joining and supporting your county, state, specialty society – and, of course . . .
The American Medical Association
Together we are stronger!
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