Persona Practitioner 1
Name: Jim Dandy
Age: 54
Technical Comfort: Moderately comfortable - has an iPhone and iPad at home
##Favorite Quote: "If I just knew what worked, I would do more of that."
Jim Dandy is a nearly full service family doctor who works more than full time. His practice is getting older, with most patients he sees in a day being over 65 (he's counted). He admits patients to hospital and works closely with a local group of midwives for the 5-10 deliveries in his practice each year. He has been using an EMR for 4 years, implementing it to reduce the burden of chronic disease management in his practice and to improve care.
He has family medicine residents come through his practice.
We was one of the first wave of practitioners to join the network, mostly because one of his office partners (who implemented the EMR) said it was the future.
- Time. Jim is busy. He often runs 1-2 hours late in his practice and is up at the hospital and on call.
- Engagement. Jim is busy. He has little time to engage in new things, although he wants to practice evidence based medicine and contribute.
- Time...
Jim was mostly pleased with his interaction with the network for this first question. The engagement was good and not too much: the initial papers were all signed at a dinner with the department head and they agreed to be in the network (a one time thing) and the technical pieces were sorted out by his office colleague so he didn't have to deal with them. The actual review of the question took about 5 minutes at a doctors meeting in the office at lunch. The results were reviewed at the next meeting, where he completed a 3 question survey.
It was only mostly, though, because, while he found the information useful and thought it would change his practice (he saw that there was a lot of polypharmacy and inappropriate prescribing in the network) he did not have a way to find out which of his patients he should recall. He understood that this was due to privacy, but he wanted a personal report.
NOTE: the network will, in time, support local reporting at individual practices.
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