April 18, 2011
At River Falls Medical Clinic, the basic question we ask whenever we embark on any kind of endeavor is how does this help our patients? From the day we began using Cerner’s Ambulatory Electronic Health Record solution in 2010, it was our goal to utilize the EHR to its full extent for the benefit of our workflow and the care we deliver to our patients. When the government announced Meaningful Use requirements, we were quick to notice that the proposed criteria would help us to better utilize our EHR to give our patients things they are not getting now. We eagerly jumped on board and made it our own personal goal to be prepared to “push the button” on April 18 – as one of the very first physicians in the country to be Meaningful Use certified.
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January 20, 2011
On the morning of Nov. 19, 2010 the FDA announced the widespread recall of the popular pain relief medication, Darvocet, citing “serious and potentially fatal heart rhythm abnormalities.” Ensuring that the doctors who use our electronic health record (EHR) were aware of the Darvocet recall quickly became our highest priority that day. We needed to make sure that doctors knew about the recall so they immediately contact any of their patients who were taking Darvocet.
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