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Some organizations have viewed Beaker as an immature application that lacks the necessary functionality needed to efficiently carry out departmental workflows, including areas such a Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics.  With each upgrade

There is always a little extra excitement when the annual HIMSS Conference takes place in Las Vegas. But before you start dreaming about hitting the roulette table, it’s important to prepare your HIMSS18 attendance game plan.

Teamwork has been defined “as a cooperative process that allows ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results.”¹   It is a relatively safe assumption to make that the majority of business professionals have been a part of a

Being a healthcare IT industry professional who has come to grow and love all that patient portals have to offer as a result of many years of hands on experience, it has always struck me when in either casual conversation or during a more formal i

In this day and age, most healthcare providers have accepted using Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to fulfill a significant portion of their job functions including ordering, electronic prescribing, clinical decision support, and documentation to

Four walls, a door, window, and a desk of your very own: these four seemingly trivial items that make up the “traditional office” have come to be a luxury that most business professionals can only dream about.  Since the 1960s, the corporate

A precursor to each and every hospital and ambulatory practice countrywide utilizing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an EHR implementation.  Historically, implementations have been known to double as a springboard for an opportunity to o

With the Meaningful Use revolution long underway, and most organizations well into the utilization of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), countless organizations find themselves asking: could we have done a better job obtaining provider buy

Prior to the advent of Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE), orders for medications and IVs were either faxed or copies were sent to the pharmacy department allowing the pharmacist to enter these orders into the pharmacy computer systems for l

The shift of healthcare organizations transitioning to electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic health records (EHR) from paper documentation systems has become the norm over the past fifteen years or so.  The initiative for computeriz

Even with so much emphasis put on regulations and requirements in today’s mandate-driven society, several healthcare organizations are still simply skating by with the absolute bare minimum compliance when it comes to major areas of focus like com

At some point in many business professionals’ careers, they have faced the prospect of undergoing a major project with resources that seem grossly inadequate to successfully complete the project on time.  This is especially true in the health

Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki built his lessons on meditation and mindfulness around the idea that our minds have a tendency to corrupt our attitude towards activities as we become better at them.