Time to embarass Eads

[Guest guest]

I want to publicly thank for sending me a DVD of 35 minutes

of video demonstrating how her ideal medical office functions and how

she uses technology. To say that the video is amazing and great

would be a gross understatement. It's very professionally done and

really conveys the idea both of what it's like to be a patient in her

office as well as how she uses information technology to make this

all come together.

I am going to show as much of this as I can during my talk on

Saturday to try to get across the idea of how this type of office

situation can work. It also has great implications for more

traditional and larger medical offices in terms of efficiency,

workflow and patient care.

This type of thing and others like it I believe deserves wider

coverage and distribution-during the Academy meeting I am hopefully

going to show this to people closer to the trunk of the

organizational tree than I am (I'm one of the leaves!).

I'm also going to start a thread on this listserv as to what I've

observed, heard and believe to be commonalities and differences with

regards to how many people on this listserv work. Basically, what I

believe is that running a modern medical office now and in the near

future is like climbing Mount Everest-if you look at the mountain

without knowing, there are almost an infinite number of ways to the

top-but if you look closely and learn from others who have been there

you'll find that there are only a few relatively easy ways, many

harder ways and many more ways that are impossible. The same analogy

applies to 21st-century medical practice-the idea that everyone

practices in completely different ways and every way is equal in my

opinion is nonsense-a few good ideas and a few good ways rise above

the rest. 's video illustrates this concept.

Regards,

Lou Spikol