Wow! I had read and learned from the experience of others and how to make this move towards a paperless office, with ones current staff. I had a plan. We were moving in slow and steady steps, We were not trying to climb the mountain (mastering it all) in one day, or one week, or one month! I had prepared this 6 month plan. initially addessing orders and e-prescribing, then data entry by the staff of CC, HCC, ALLERGIES and Meds, Scanning pertinent chart info as we went, retaining the paper charts, everyone has a new computer, good scanner, networked printers. We had been using AC for office visits for 2-3 years. I have been doing brief "team" building meetings, sharing tips as we learn them from the forum and from each other. Daily debriefings. Well suffice i to say that my risk for prostate cancer has gone down dramatically as the staff went through a mass verbal catharsis, verbally performing an orchiectomy on me. It seems that it has been more stressful than I anticipated for the staff. Fortunately, they are all good people. It just seems that they had this idea that we could phase in the nearly paperless EMR by 2015....Not October 2011. In the end, after several kleenex boxes, and a lot of chocolate, they are speaking to me again. They actually were somewhat consolling towards the end of the day, and did remind me, and themselves, that I did own the store, and that I have never deliberatly tried to bury them with needless work. But what a reminder about how we people don't like change. Thanks for letting me unload. If I had a donkey, I'm sure it would still love me.
