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that sit atop rolling stands that travel with the patient. We also have desktops in each of our 4 ORs. Hint: Buy computers that have finger- print technology to avoid changing passwords every 30 days, forgetting passwords, or entering the wrong password and getting locked out. Your nurses will be slaves to the screen. Instead of being up at the field paying attention and anticipating what the doctor or tech needs next, your circulators will be staring at a computer, tap- ping buttons and screens to keep up with their documentation. It's easy to forget about patient care and get caught up trying to find where to chart that the patient is in the supine position. EMRs can make simple things complex. Take the patient consent, for example. It will no longer be a simple pen to paper and sign here … but a click here, accept but- ton, hit next screen, check box, next screen, save, please wait while the computer thinks, oh, shoot, I double-clicked when I should have single- clicked. It'll make your job so much easier. You can easily convert the data you've charted into helpful reports, such as compliance reports on quality measures. Want to know the ASA breakdown of your patients. Your average patient BMI? Your percentage of ontime starts? Instead of attaching a form to every patient's chart and spend- ing hours on data collection, input and analysis, you're just a couple clicks away. Same goes for benchmarking and financial reports for board meetings. The beauty of time-stamped records. EMRs time- and date- stamp your records, so you can easily show your accreditation surveyor that your doctors signed and dated everything. You can also show off the hard stop you activated that prevents charting in 4 3 5 8 6 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • J a n u a r y 2 0 1 7