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Implementation:
Overcoming Provider Resistance
- Providers (practices) concerns
- Too much time to review data/alerts
- Coverage during day and on nights/weekends/holidays—"critical labs"
- Medical-legal concerns about responsibility for data—where and how to document
- Educate to respond (not just file)
- Educate to respond appropriately
- Comfort with adjusting medications over the phone
- Use of extra visits/ER when appropriate only
- "Learning curve" observed with most clinicians
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