Early in my clinical applications career, we were wading through Meaningful Use Stage 2. It was painful for all concerned. Perhaps one of the biggest associated challenges we had to work through was pop-up fatigue. This culminated when we rolled out an important part of meeting MU2 – a Clinical Decision Support tool. The CDS [...]
How Understanding the Four Stages of Competence Can Improve the Way You Learn and Teach In 2004, I started the University of Arizona’s Paramedic program. It was an intense program by any standard – sixty-four credit hours and hundreds of clinical hours in the space of nine months. Despite a history of being of good student for whom academics came easily – or maybe [...]
Do you ever drive somewhere completely on autopilot? You get in the car to drive home from work, and the next thing you know, you’re home without thinking about it? This happens to me a lot. Between the rhythms of working and parenting and managing the Endless Basket of Laundry - you know the one [...]
Have you ever referred to your patients by their symptoms or disease processes? The DVT in Bed 4. The STEMI in Room 7A. Head Cold in Exam 2. Looking back on the years I spent doing direct patient care, I’m startled to remember how often my colleagues and I spoke about patients this way. There [...]
Ask any manager what his or her pet peeves are, and the odds are very good that hearing the phrase “That’s not my job!” will land solidly in the Top 5. As an employee, and presumably, someone who wants to get ahead, it’s a phrase that should never come out of your mouth. If your [...]
Find out how your phone can help you correctly label E/M Codes. According to the Human Services Office of the Inspector General, 60% of E/M codes were either miscoded or incorrectly documented.
Does the thought of implementing a new software tool for your doctors make you want to pull your hair out? Here are five tips to make the process a little less painful. […]
How Understanding the Four Stages of Competence Can Improve the Way You Learn and Teach In 2004, I started the University of Arizona’s Paramedic program. It was an intense program by any standard – sixty-four credit hours and hundreds of clinical hours in the space of nine months. Despite a history of being a good [...]
