5 ways to optimize your mobile ehr
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Tom Giannulli, MD, MS, Chief Medical Information Officer, Kareo Teresa Iafolla, eVisit
5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Mobile EHR
October 2015
Who We Are
Teresa IafollaDirector of Content Marketing, [email protected]
Tom Giannulli, MD, MSChief Medical Information Officer, [email protected]
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Your Presenter
Tom Giannulli, MD, MSChief Medical Information Officer, Kareo• Practicing physician in Internal Medicine
• Chief medical information officer at Kareo
• 15 years of experience in mobile technology and medical
software development
• Previously, chief medical information officer at Epocrates
• Founder and chief executive officer of Caretools
• Former VP of Advanced Research for Data Critical
• M.S. in biomedical engineering from the University of Utah
• M.D. from the University of Texas at Houston
Connect [email protected]
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91% of docs want to use mobile EHR
*Beckers
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What Are the Benefits?Heads Up Medicine:• More eye contact with patients• Simple tap and swipe• Engage patients with the device (show images, health
indicators, etc.)• No more swivel chair fatigue
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What Are the Benefits?Return on Investment• Increase charges by 5%• Improve accuracy of coding
level• Speed claim submission• Reduce transcription• Save $6 or more per new chart• Increase operating margin by
10%• Increase collections nearly 10%
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What Are the Concerns?– Why isn’t every doc using EHR on a tablet?• Worried about deficits on small device• Not sure they can document effectively/quickly
– Historically, lots of dissatisfaction with EHRs– Don’t want to learn a new mobile EHR just to be
disappointed
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Is Mobile Right for You?Ask these simple questions1.Do you want anytime
anywhere access?2.Do you want to be unchained
form your desktop and make eye contact with patients?
3.Do you prefer simple tap and swipe to mouse navigation?
4.Lastly, are you willing to put in the effort needed to make it truly useful?
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If You Don’t Take the Time Now
• Can slow down patient visit• Cause inaccurate documentation/coding• Results in mistakes that have to be fixed
later• Decrease satisfaction
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5 Steps to Success
Don’t Skip How-To’s
Use It Every day
Find Shortcuts
Tweak Templates
Practice, Practice
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Don’t Skip the How-To’s
• Go through all tutorials (even if it takes a day)• Learn both
hardware and software functions• No one can do this
for you
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Use It Every Day• Use your new device for everything• Email• Web browsing• Download apps
• Get really comfortable with navigation and tools
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Find Shortcuts & Bailouts
• Have a docking station at hand and external keypad just in case
• Practice voice recording via Bluetooth
• Use application shortcuts
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Tweak Templates
• Customize pre-loaded templates• Build new templates• Create familiar sequencing• Match templates to your thought process
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Tweak Templates
Get help
• Take advantage of vendor training on templates• Pay for customer templates (small investment-big
reward)
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Practice, Practice
• Document a random sample of old notes
• Adjust templates as you encounter issues
• Then, when ready, practice on staff
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Success and satisfaction with EHR is directly related to duration of training
*AmericanEHR
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Fit & Familiarity• Carefully choose EHR & device• Then, take the time to implement and learn
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Next steps:
1. Visit www.kareo.com/ehr to learn more about our truly mobile EHR
2. Sign up for the free Kareo EHR and try it for yourself
Questions?Teresa IafollaDirector of Content Marketing, [email protected]
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Tom Giannulli, MD, MSChief Medical Information Officer, [email protected]
Dr. Tom Giannulli, Kareo and Teresa Iafolla, eVisit
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October 2015