Much Anticipated EHR Update

It has been a while since we have had an EHR update so here you go.

The EPM core team will from this point forward be known as the Samurais. Last week the Samurais completed three intense days of end user training on the EPM system. To review, the EPM is the part of NextGen that manages the demographics of our patients, the schedule, and the billing for our practice. The Samurais have learned how to enter new patients into the system, schedule patients, set up sliding fee scales and insurance companies as payers. The next phase of the EMP implementation will be training the entire staff on how to do the basic EPM functions. This morning the Samurais developed a training schedule for everyone in the clinic. Later today you will receive an email with the entire training schedule attached. Ana Gudino will block providers' schedules during the time that they are scheduled for training. Training classes will be help on Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 8am and 10am until everyone has been through it. The entire operations staff will have a mandatory training from 8am to 1pm on Saturday March 29th. This training will cover the more in depth patient registration, check in, payment, insurance, and financial counseling parts of the EPM. The go live date has been moved from April 29th to May 1st at the request of our accounting department who would have their jobs become unnecessarily more complex if we were to use two different EPM systems during one month.

I can't emphasize enough that the May 1st go live date is for the EPM only, not the EHR part of the system. The EHR go live day is still up in the air but it looks like it will be in the late fall.

The EHR core team will from here on out be known as the Groovy Ninjas. The groovy ninjas are meeting right now. They have broken the implementation of the EHR portion of the projectinto 8 main tasks. I can't comeup with them right now but you will hear more about these items as the project progresses. If you have any questions about the EHR project please contact anyone from either the Samurais or the Groovy Ninjas.

It has been a while since Oscar has received any face time on the blog so here is a picture of St. Patrick's Day at my house. Thanks for checking the blog and goodbye until next time.