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Building a Seamless Workflow in Charm: A Practical Guide for Clinic Leaders
The article presents a comprehensive checklist for clinical leaders, detailing when to build or buy tools in Charm, an EHR system. It provides a step-by-step guide that focuses on operational problem definition, cost calculation, workflow mapping, in-house build evaluation, and guardrail setup.
Bryan Dennstedt
5 days ago9 min read


Measuring ROI on Charm Workflow Changes: A Practical Guide for Clinic Leaders
The article provides a practical framework for measuring the return on investment (ROI) of workflow changes in clinics using Charm, emphasizing the importance of defining success metrics, capturing baseline data, building a cost model, conducting controlled rollouts, and documenting outcomes.
Bryan Dennstedt
Mar 3010 min read


The First Three Fixes For A Struggling Clinic: A Checklist For Owners Who Want Control Back
Struggling clinics should first stabilize their appointment schedule, streamline their revenue cycle, and reduce Electronic Health Records (EHR) friction to regain control and ensure predictable growth. This approach mitigates chaos, enhances revenue, and reduces staff burnout.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 299 min read


The Operational KPIs Every Clinic Should Track
The article guides healthcare clinic owners on identifying effective operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) including capacity, revenue, workflow, staffing, and patient experience. It emphasizes clear ownership, consistent reporting, and aligning Electronic Health Records (EHR) to effectively track these KPIs.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 2811 min read


When Custom Development Makes Sense in Charm: A Systems Architect’s Checklist
The article provides a comprehensive checklist for healthcare clinics considering custom development in Charm, an electronic health record system. It guides users to distinguish between workflow issues and software limitations, shares conditions favorable for custom development, and warns against common pitfalls. Guidelines for controlled execution of custom projects are also presented.
Bryan Dennstedt
Mar 2710 min read


Optimizing EHR Workflows for Cash-Pay and Insurance Models
To safely grow your practice, design separate electronic health records (EHR) workflows for insurance and cash-pay models. Further differentiate through different appointment types, financial consent template, and revenue reports. For scalability, choose EHR platforms allowing standardization and automation.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 268 min read


Optimizing EHR Workflows: Reducing Clicks Per Visit in Charm Clinic
To streamline clinic operations in Charm, measure and reduce clicks per visit by streamlining and observing real workflows, eliminating unnecessary tasks, and shifting workloads to the earliest stages. Revisit quarterly and incorporate automation last, post-optimization.
Bryan Dennstedt
Mar 258 min read


Essential Checklist for Owner Dashboards in Healthcare Practices
A practical checklist guides practice owners to create effective owner dashboards; prioritizing timely insights over aesthetics, focusing on essential revenue and operational metrics, detecting outliers in multi-provider setups and maintaining review cadence. A well-designed dashboard aids swift decision-making and practice management.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 248 min read


How-To Guide: Preparing Charm EHR For Audits And Compliance Without Breaking Your Clinic
The guide explains how to prepare Charm, an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, for audits without disrupting a clinic's operations. The ten steps focus on identifying audit scenarios, setting permissions and roles according to actual clinic operations, standardizing documentation, configuration, stabilizing orders, results, messaging, task management, and running mini internal audits. Finally, it advises making audit readiness a regular, low-overhead habit.
Bryan Dennstedt
Mar 239 min read


Maximizing Clinical Operations Efficiency: A Step-by-Step Guide
This guide offers strategies for healthcare practices to synchronize their clinical care with business operations, thus boosting margins and preventing staff burnover. It emphasizes optimizing outcomes, defining key metrics, aligning with EHR, standardizing documentation, and integrating burnout prevention into business metrics.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 229 min read


Transforming EHR Cleanup into a Strategic Business Advantage
Transforming EHR cleanup into a strategic advantage can improve revenue and reduce staff burnout. To achieve this, it's essential to establish clear business goals and operational standards, control front-end revenue, streamline documentation, manage task routing, monitor performance metrics, and implement a time-boxed cleanup project.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 218 min read


Scaling Charm: A Guide to Multi-Location Clinic Success
Successfully scaling Charm to a multi-location operation requires pre-planning, standardized processes, careful implementation, and goal-orientated assessment. It's crucial to design workflows for team efficiency, ensure consistent clinical/billing practices, and employ automation where efficient. Ensuring Charm reflects actual clinic operations is key.
Bryan Dennstedt
Mar 208 min read


Turning EHR Cleanup Into Strategic Advantage: A Step‑By‑Step Playbook
Transforming regular electronic health records (EHR) cleanup into a strategic practice can reduce costs, improve staff efficiency, and increase practice revenue. By focusing on business problems over software, standardizing and streamlining templates and workflows, and providing regular training, practices can ensure clean, reliable data supporting sustainable practice growth.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 199 min read


Streamlining Telehealth Workflows for Clinics: A Comprehensive Checklist
Streamline telehealth by using a single defined operating model in Charm, making scheduling error-free, and ensuring easy accessibility to meeting links, thereby creating a reliable, easy, and profitable workflow for clinic staff and management.
Bryan Dennstedt
Mar 189 min read


Streamlining EHR Workflows for Practice Efficiency
To reduce EHR-related errors, practices should prioritize high-impact errors, map actual workflows, standardize critical paths, assign clear responsibilities, incorporate error-proofing measures, establish visible metrics, conduct small pilot tests, associate process design with staff retention and regularly review the process.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 178 min read


Navigating Build vs Buy Decisions for Clinic Workflow Optimization
The article outlines a ten-step checklist to guide clinic leaders through decisions on when to build versus buy when operating on Charm, a popular clinical software. It emphasizes clarity of problem description, exploration of Charm's native capabilities, consideration of the clinic's operational needs and strategic differentiation, estimating costs and potential returns, ensuring auditability, and setting up small, real-world tests for integration outcomes.
Bryan Dennstedt
Mar 169 min read


The EHR Checklist That Actually Lowers Staff Burnout
The article provides a detailed checklist for reducing staff burnout by improving Electronic Health Records (EHR) efficiency. Key strategies include assessing current EHR issues, optimizing templates and workflows, standardizing procedures, automating patient tasks, simplifying coding, and limiting alerts and notifications.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 159 min read


A Practical Checklist: Fixing a Struggling Clinic
The article proposes a sequential action plan for clinic owners to turn around their struggling practices. It stresses the importance of stabilifying revenue, optimizing scheduling, clarifying roles, monitoring key metrics, minimizing EHR friction, managing AR and denials, and establishing regular operations rhythm.
Dan Dunlop
Mar 148 min read


Hidden Charm Features Most Clinics Overlook for Workflow Optimization
Clinics can improve workflows by utilizing EHR configuration features such as customized clinical templates, structured task queues, implemented protocols, optimized scheduling, role-based permission control, communication standardization, and structured data entry fields for easier reporting. A careful, measured approach to configuration can enhance efficiency and patient care quality.
Bryan Dennstedt
Mar 1310 min read


The Quiet Cost Of Messy Data: A Practical Checklist For Charting Discipline In Charm
The article offers a practical checklist for improving data hygiene and charting discipline in medical clinics using Charm, an electronic health record system. It discusses strategies for standardizing chart structure, maintaining accurate problem and medication lists, improving template use, ensuring data cleanup and establishing proper governance for efficient, audit-ready operations.
Bryan Dennstedt
Mar 119 min read
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