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Here's an Internet trip worth taking. Jump on the AAFP's information technology Web site and you'll find "a place to foster the EHR community within the AAFP," said Steven Waldren, M.D., assistant director of AAFP's Center for Health Information Technology.
The Web site has recently undergone a facelift and is the perfect place in cyberspace if you're an AAFP member looking for accurate and reliable information about electronic health record resources.
"Been there, done that," you might say. Well, the Web site's fresh new look debuted in October, so if you've not visited lately, put http://www.centerforhit.org at the top of your "to do" list.
Areas of the Web site tagged "AAFP Members Only" require your member ID number, so keep it handy when you log in.
Members still wrestling with whether to "tech up" should click on "Quick Start Guide" and sign up to communicate with colleagues on an EHR e-mail discussion list, complete an EHR readiness assessment form and ponder the stages of EHR adoption.
According to Waldren, one of the hottest new clicks on the Web site is an area offering members the opportunity to read and write EHR product reviews. To date, more than 80 reviews have been posted on the site, which requires that reviewers articulate reasons for their pro and con assessments of EHR products. If you're utilizing an EHR, why not join your peers by submitting a review of your system?
"Members say to me, I want to discuss EHR systems with physicians like me in practices like mine,'" said Waldren, and the CHIT Web site offers that possibility.
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