Download a time-tracking app. Track your time for 1 week, 1 month, or more.

Throughout your next week, identify 2 things you are doing that could be delegated to Staff or Technology. Then implement delegating.

Once you know the value of your time, are there meetings you should be declining and/or roles you should step down from?

Carve out the first 30-60minutes of your morning to NOT see live patients. Use it for the morning rush and triaging messages, etc.

Calculate Your Supply vs Demand (Number of appointments required per each day of week on average). (How many diabetics do you have? Account for that number).

In your EMR schedule, look forward over the next year and carve out the 1-2 days after vacations as “Same Day Access”.

Look at your Schedule this coming week (or last week). What visits do NOT require to be IN PERSON? Start with 1 type and develop a workflow with your staff for future.

Develop a colour-coded EMR schedule template and implement with your staff.

Implement your own “Skin Spot workflow” with your staff.

Make 2 EMR Stamps. (If you don’t know how, Step One is to Learn How)

Learn one new EMR skill (i.e. how to build a stamp; how to make a custom form; how to build a toolbar, how to build a reminder/search).

Book a Peer Leader Session with OntarioMD.

Find and join a social media forum for your EMR. Ask a question in that forum.

Create an EMR Reminder or Search.

Book a Demo with one of the Adjunct Technology companies and explore.

Sign Up for an AI Scribe (Free Trial) and equip your exam rooms with speakers. Just try it for your next few visits.

Sign up for ChatGPT and/or Perplexity, and use it in a clinical context this week.

Book demos with Uninsured Services companies. See what you may be missing.

Start a website for your clinic. Even the most basic type. (Coincidentally, I may be starting a project to help doctors get their own websites up and running. Contact me at emr.consulting@stewartmedicine.com if interested!)

Ensure you have handouts/resources for the most common topics. Continue to add to your library.

Download a To-Do-List appt. Enter at east 5 “To Do’s” to get them out of your head. Post-date those that are not due today.

Gmail users: consider trying Boomerang.

Carve out and Schedule monthly meetings with your staff. Have your Lead Staff member organize, track agenda, and Chair the meeting.

Identify one task or decision that you can offload from your responsibilities and empower staff to take on. Repeat this monthly.