In the late summer of 2004 our city of Ocala, located in the center of Florida, was directly hit by two of the four major hurricanes which made landfall. Due to a combination of lengthy power outages and significant damage to buildings, including the homes of many employees and patients, many medical practices were forced to close (some practices along the coasts were unable to perform surgery for up to several weeks).

Our original timeline placed our EMR implementation around the late summer of 2005, but the domino effect from the storms forced us to push this back a couple of months.

Unfortunately, this would coincide with a couple of other major events in our practice: the addition of two new associates, the departure of another, and the construction of two new satellite offices. (more…)

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Membership growth tied to new tools provided to medical professionals

The International Association of Dental and Medical Disciplines (IADMD) is a grass-roots organization whose main focus is to push for industry and legislative changes in the health care system, while at the same time bringing its membership up to date on technology. One initiative is to provide doctors participating in local community health services the tools to track and account for the free services they provide. A recent article in Information Week explains how the IADMD hopes to benefit in several ways from technology awareness; among them increased membership and a larger group to support its lobbying efforts.

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