practice management

Spring 2011 Seminar Schedule

The sign-up sites for the different pediatric events involving numerous SOAPM folks, besides myself, in the next few months - Oken, Madden, Betancourt, many more - are finally up, so I can blog about it. Whew. Rich Lander is speaking at at least 3 of...
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ARRA Sleight of Hand

It began with a simple message in my mailbox. "Poll for your blog - Will RECs deliver on their mission?" I bopped over to the softwareadvice.com piece about RECs and was pleasantly surprised by their analysis of the REC process so far. Their analysis...
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Meaningful Use for Pediatricians

As you may have heard - even the AAP has announced the news - the Final Draft of the Meaningful Use Final Rule has been issued by CMS. There are already dozens of analyses of the results posted on-line (how some of these folks read 860+ pages in a ma...
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The Latest CCHIT and ARRA Conversation

As many of you know, I am on the CCHIT Child Health Workgroup, which has been both a delight and an exercise in futility. The focus and capability of the folks on that committee is intimidating, to say the least...but, sadly, we have not met since la...
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Alternative Growth Charts and EHRs

I remember, quite clearly, the CCHIT committee conference call where I learned the truth. "I'm sure there are sources for alternative growth charts. I've seen them with my own eyes," I said as Dr. Marcus tried to convince me otherwise I couldn't beli...
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Podcasts/Chip Hart

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I'd like to introduce Charting the Future, a new pediatric podcast featuring independent pediatricians from around the country.
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