Pros And Cons To Hourly And Flat-Fee Consultants
Paying consultants can get expensive. When your projects take significantly longer than expected, you can find your budget quickly ballooning into something that you didn’t anticipate when you first decided to work with a consultant. It’s important to be aware of the goals of your project when you start your consultant search. If you’re deciding to hire a consultant, it’s likely because ...
What to Know When Hiring an Epic Consultant
If you work in the medical industry, you know that Epic is everywhere. Whether you’re a receptionist, nurse, physician, or administrator, you’ve likely heard of, seen, or worked directly with an Epic EMR. As many an IT manager or analyst knows, optimizing your Epic system to be a software solution that users actually like to use can prove to be very difficult. At a certain point, it beco...
Electronic Medical Records: Epic Promise Delivered?
When President Obama signed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, many lauded the legislation as a way to finally push the staggering numbers of healthcare providers still documenting on paper onto Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems. However, 6 years after the Act went into effect, many physicians are still struggling with figuring ...
5 Reasons Why EMR Usability Is Hard
Most people hate using EMRs. Whether you're a medical assistant, nurse, or physician, you likely struggle with at least one aspect of the usability of your EMR workflows. According to this 2013 Deloitte study on Physician adoption of healthcare information technology, only 15% of physicians said they were very satisfied with their EMR. The issue isn't restricted to just a single EMR ven...
