Successfully Deploying Your Valuable Resources:

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How to successfully navigate your EHR implementation.

Some electronic health record (EHR) implementations proceed on schedule with full involvement of their participants and achieve their goals. Others flounder, stall or struggle, experiencing only partial success or, in extreme cases, no success at all. What accounts for the difference? Is it a problem with the people, the process or the EHR product? How are large-practice implementations differe...

Successfully Choosing Your EMR: 15 Crucial Decisions

ploying their first EMR as well as for those ready to replace their existing EMR with a new one, or an integrated EMR/ computer practice management (CMP) solution, or an EMR that also offers a patient-portal. Recently, the U.S. federal government has expressed its intent to enact widespread health reform. This book details how early adoption of EMR systems by hospitals and private physicians wo...

Strategies to successfully publish your first manuscript.

Applying published evidence is fundamental to the practice of medicine. However, the steps needed to undertake scientific research and generate a manuscript of publishable quality are often overwhelming for junior doctors. Undertaking research and publishing these findings are complementary. Clinicians often present research at college or scientific meetings as oral or poster presentations. Yet...

Strategic Achilles: Is Prior Information About Your Opponent’s Strategy Valuable?∗

Is having prior information about your opponent’s strategy helpful? We investigate this question using an adaptive framework where agents must implement their strategies as finite automata. Some agents are informed of the strategic complexity of their opponents and condition their strategies on that information. Intuitively, one might think that such strategic information should be advantageous...