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Welcome to our Family Practice. We are practicing in a modern facility in Daly City, immediately adjacent to San Francisco. We have "open access" scheduling, which means you shoud be able to get a same day appointment for even routine matters. You may see either W. , M.D., a Family Physician in this community since 1993, or Terry Grenchik, FNP, PA-c, a Family Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant who is a retired Military Colonel. Benny Acevedo is our trusted Medical Assistant and will be happy to answer your questions and schedule an appointment for you. We look forward to meeting you.

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, M.D.

, M.D.

Education:

PreMed:University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas: 1990

Residency:

San Medical Center, affiliated with Stanford University: 1993

http://www.medrecinst.com/NEWS/Keynote.html

How an EMR Changed My Practice - A True Implementation Story

Before adopting an EMR, Dr. was drowning in paperwork, with limited time to see patients and his family was beginning to forget what he looked like. After 'going solo' and adopting an EMR with speech recognition, things changed dramatically for Dr. . The EMR gave him more time for patients, more control of his practice, and double the income. And, he has much more time with his family. All because of the implementation of an EMR!

Hear Dr. tell his story when he joins keynote speakers, Maggie Mahar (Money-Drive Healthcare), and Dr. Dennis on (The Missing Piece in EMR Developments) during the TEPR 2007 Opening Session on Monday, May 21 at the Dallas Convention Center.

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of T. , MDSent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:34 AMTo: Subject: RE: Micropractice at TEPR

Good Afternoon, everyone.

I am at TEPR (Towards the Electronic Patient Record) this week, in Dallas. This is an EMR industry conference and trade show, the biggest yearly conference that is done on the subject of EMR’s. I was giving a couple of talks (How to Implement an EMR in a Small Practice, and Using EMR Tools to Manage Chronic Illness, a Practical Approach). What I found interesting was the following:

, MD, a California doctor who described his previous practice as “running on a treadmill,” who quit and started an IMP, was one of the Keynote Speakers. He gave a great talk, explaining the virtues of low-overhead practice, and describing how he was motivated to try this by Gordon’s first article on the subject (followed by several conversations with Gordon about the details of start-up). He talked a bit about how his use of an EMR helped, but most of his talk was about how happy he and his patients are, and how easy it was to do it. (He even had an “Easy Button” that gave a humorous “Hey, that was easy,” whenever he pressed it to punctuate the steps in his talk.) He is working half as many hours as he had before, and claims to be making twice as much. He only works a few days a week, and has a ARNP who sees patients the days he is not there. There is one combo receptionist and MA. The talk was inspiring.

Rose, MD, who is both the Product Manager of Practice Partner, and also a doctor in a Micropractice (Fremont Family Medicine, in Seattle) gave a great talk titled “EHR in the Ultralight Office.” Fremont Family Medicine has 4 providers sharing a 400 square foot office, which shares a waiting room with an adjoining dental office. He gave a great overview of the movement, and w wonderful talk which showed how a fully-integrated EHR can make Micropractice very efficient. (I have planted a bug in his ear to come out with a IMP version of Practice Partner, which would be ASP hosted and have a limited number of licenses, including a web portal for on-line scheduling as well as patient access to their own charts).

Other pertinent talks were about the use of the CCR (Continuity of Care Record) which will allow EHRs to easily transfer and exchange patient data with XML files. One pediatric practice is giving their patients their CCRs on flash drives, which get updated every visit. This gives them a totally up-to-date immunization record, as well as the sports physical and physician OK to participate in sports in a very accessible form.

Other information was presented on the Personal Health Record. Both Google and Quicken are going to release personal health records this year, which will mean that a tremendous number of patients will be able to come in with accurate summaries of their health histories.

Finally, Instant Medical History described their new features that were focused on chronic disease management. These will really help me in my soon-to-be-started practice.