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How NextGen Training Can Help Your Practice
Your NextGen implementation project is not complete without training. NextGen training helps staff learn to use your NextGen EPM & EHR system properly. No EHR, EMR, or practice management system can succeed without well-trained users inputting the right data at the right time. Timely, targeted training can even increase system satisfaction, decrease employee attrition, and […]
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How to Minimize EHR Usability Issues
EHRs have long been a touchy issue for physicians, nurses, and IT departments within practices. Several studies have noted physicians’ frustrations, concerns, and the need to minimize EHR usability issues over the past decade. In the 21st Century Cures Act, Congress finally started to take note and built EHR usability into future regulatory requirements. The Department […]
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What is EHR Optimization?
After the passage of the HITECH Act, Meaningful Use caused a boom in the EHR & EMR market. Many groups rushed their implementation to accommodate regulatory program criteria. By 2017, approximately 80% of office-based physicians reported adopting a Certified EHR. Now that many groups are well in to MIPS participation, focusing on provider satisfaction, reducing physician burnout, […]
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How NextGen EHR Usability Can Increase Productivity
Electronic Health Record (EHR) & Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems offer an efficient way for providers to document a patient’s chart, easing the burden of paper forms, and creating more time to see patients. Not all systems are designed equally, and each has its advantages and obstacles. TempDev’s consultants are consistently looking for new opportunities […]
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4 Ways to Reduce Physician EHR Burnout
Continued efforts to digitize healthcare are both promising and challenging. While it could be years before the healthcare industry is entirely digitally ready, EHR physician burnout is very real. But physicians and healthcare professionals can start experiencing reduced stress and exhaustion from electronic health record (EHR) and electronic medical record (EMR) systems by taking a […]
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What are EHR Usability Pain Points?
The frustrations that many doctors and healthcare workers encounter with electronic health records (EHR) or electronic medical records (EMR) have been well documented over the past couple of years. What may not be as prominent in these studies is the effect that cumbersome EHR usability can have on patients and their families. While EHR adoption […]
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What Is Physician Burnout and How to Prevent It?
The practice of medicine is fulfilling and meaningful; however, it can be overwhelmingly stressful and demanding, causing physician burnout. Burnout is more predominant among physicians more than any other workers across the country. The highest cases of physician burnout recorded are among physicians within specialties at the frontline, such as emergency medicine, general internal medicine, […]