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I Didn't Know My
EMR Could Do That
Our readers share the many pleasant surprises
they've experienced from going paperless.
Ever wish your EMR
could do more than
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schedule, chart and
Editor-in-Chief
code cases? It might
be able to do a whole
lot more — you've just yet to click through every tab, read the manual
from cover to cover or ask your vendor to give you a screen-by-screen
tour of your system to discover all its hidden horsepower.
"I didn't know all the things our system could do when we started,"
says Natalie Coubrough, RN, CASC, the director of the West Lakes
Surgery Center in Clive, Iowa. That was before Ms. Coubrough and her
BEYOND THE BASICS Many surgical facilities that invest in paperless systems don't use their EMRs to their full capacities.
