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Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, January/February 2011
... specific disease goals (e.g., A1Cs for diabetics, TSH for people on thyroid meds), and ensuring lab results are ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, September 2011
... describes herself and her MOA as “not computer advanced people at all,” but despite this they implemented an EMR in ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, November 2011
... the baby boomer generation, now turning 60, is a cohort of people who are used to being proactive about politics, about ... Centre in a town that contains a large proportion of people over 65. Over the 2 years since implementation he has ... patient data to ensure that he is proactively working with people with diabetes, hypertension, renal failure, and other ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, March 2010
... change. “To effect large-scale change, you need to rally people behind a common goal,” he explains.  When he ... to get their agreement to select a common vendor. Some people already had an EMR, some were close to retirement, and ... practice and couldn’t afford it. The more I spoke to people, the more I got confirmation that it was a good idea. ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2010
... leadership positions. Were there concerns that the pool of people being attracted to the Board was too small? Partly. ... medical staff meetings. That breeds apathy, so valuing people for their contributions is essential. During ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2009
... thing you could do academically. I always wanted to help people, but I can’t really say I had a deep sense of what ... my intellectual and academic longings, I enjoyed the people, and I thought dealing with medical issues would be a nice area to interact with people.  I’ve always liked solving problems, and also I ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2008
... do it for? From age 10 until 27—through most of school. People ask me how I trained and competed in university and ... something that really interested me. The advice I give to people contemplating going into medicine is, If your ... What’s your favorite thing to do as a doctor? Helping people maintain their health is my biggest focus. I enjoy ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2007
... gray hair. That’s typical of medicine anywhere—young people have got a different idea of lifestyle. They don’t ... a democracy, and the majority rules. We’re not squashing people who vote for or against a particular thing—but once ... say fee issues, or a big fight with government, people come. If they don’t come, I read it as a vote of ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2006
... for medicine. So moving all over the place like that, people always ask, “Was your dad one step ahead of the ... move to BC; in Rossland, where we live now, there are 3500 people. So it’s quite small, and Trail has fewer than 10 ... of that is this longitudinal relationship that I have with people. I know their families, I know their problems, I’ve ...
Interviews / BY: Michael Golbey, MD September 2005
... that’s much of what we do, of course, is help people in health crises. End-of-life care is also very ... of technology into clinical medicine been so slow? Some people look at physicians as being slow to adopt technology, ... The Supreme Court says there’s a problem; these are wise people, and we should sit down and discuss it in public. ...