My recommendation is always to take it one step at a time. Don't overthink it. Imagine your process first, just replacing the paper with digital. The secretary and you, the doctor are basically still …
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Do You Have to Encode Your Old Patient Records Before Using an EMR?
Every doctor who asks me about going digital asks a version of the same question: what happens to my old records? The short answer is that nothing has to happen to them before you start. You don't …
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When the Patient Chart Is in the Other Clinic
A lot of the doctors I meet still carry their patient charts between clinics in a bag. I'm not judging it. For years that was the only system that made sense. The records go where the doctor …
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Why Most Doctors Can’t Tell You What They Earned Last Month
When you want to know exactly what you made last month, where do you look? I've been asking doctors that for years. Not the number, to be clear. That's nobody's business but yours, and honestly I'd …
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Building on a System That’s Still Being Built
Ten years building healthcare software in the Philippines, and the lesson that stuck this year had nothing to do with code. A clinic we work with downloaded a batch of files our software had already …
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How to Choose an EMR in the Philippines (2026 Guide)
A doctor sent me a Facebook ad recently and asked one question: is this legit? It was an ad for an EMR I had never heard of. Polished video, confident claims, glowing testimonials. It did not take …
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