One Nail at a Time: Insights for Building Your Patient's Medical Home - 21 | Streamlining Your Practice Part 1: Tech Forward Family Practice with Dr. Kelly MacGregor

21 | Streamlining Your Practice Part 1: Tech Forward Family Practice with Dr. Kelly MacGregor

06/23/22 • 26 min

One Nail at a Time: Insights for Building Your Patient's Medical Home

In part 1 of a 3-part series on streamlining family practice, we learn about the unique 'tech forward' approach that Dr. Kelly MacGregor and her colleagues have adopted at their clinic. While the overall approach may not suit every practice, there may be elements that family docs could consider testing in their own practices.
Listen as Dr. MacGregor describes how the strategies she uses have resulted in better standardization, increased efficiency and improved patient safety. (In Part 2, she'll describe more about privacy concerns and financial requirements related to use of technology.)
Resources mentioned by Dr. MacGregor that CMPA has approved for Canadian use and meet current privacy legislation requirements*:

Electronic medical record - Accuro by QHR Technologies
Secure, EMR integrated messaging - Medeo Healthmail
Secure, EMR integrated patient questionnaires and forms - Ocean by CognisantMD
Remote, EMR integrated cloud based fax - Unite Communications
Online scheduler - Accuro by QHR Technologies
Appointment reminders - Cliniconex
Virtual platform - Doxy.me
VOIP phone service - Line2
Multi platform, multi user smart phrase manager - TextExpander

*Not intended as product endorsement

Electronic medical record - Accuro by QHR Technologies
Secure, EMR integrated messaging - Medeo Healthmail
Secure, EMR integrated patient questionnaires and forms - Ocean by CognisantMD
Remote, EMR integrated cloud based fax - Unite Communications
Online scheduler - Accuro by QHR Technologies
Appointment reminders - Cliniconex
Virtual platform - Doxy.me
VOIP phone service - Line2
Multi platform, multi user smart phrase manager - TextExpander

*Not intended as product endorsement

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Join us as we learn about Alberta’s new ‘Home to Hospital to Home Transitions Guideline’. Dr. Slocombe explains the 6 components that together help patients successfully transition from home to hospital to home. She explains the roles of primary care and acute care, and the significant positive impact this guideline can have on continuity and the patient experience. Best of all, once established, it could mean less work for your practice!

Home to Hospital to Home Transitions Guideline
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22 | Streamlining Your Practice Part 2: Tech Forward Family Practice with Dr. Kelly MacGregor

In part 2 of a 3-part series on streamlining family practice, we learn more about the unique 'tech forward' approach that Dr. Kelly MacGregor and her colleagues have adopted at their clinic. While the overall approach may not suit every practice, there may be elements that family docs could consider testing in their own practices.
Listen as Dr. MacGregor describes how her clinic has addressed privacy concerns related to use of technology. She also talks candidly about the products they use and the financial investment (spoiler alert: it's minimal!), and provides her advice for clinics interested in starting to incorporate more technology.
Resources mentioned by Dr. MacGregor that CMPA has approved for Canadian use and meet current privacy legislation requirements*: