{"id":575,"date":"2015-06-14T12:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebusinessofschoolblog.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2015-09-07T08:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:24:36","slug":"electronic-gradebooks-are-there-any-negatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessofschoolblog.com\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Gradebooks \u2013 Are there any negatives?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gradebook\"<\/a>As a doctor in private practice during the 80’s and 90\u2019s, computers were just beginning to make a change in how offices were run. The term \u201cpaperless office\u201d was just words as most doctors could never envision how such a system would work. There was just so much paper to be handled during the course of a day that it was hard to imagine how we could do away with those piles of patient documents, or narratives to lawyers or insurance requests?<\/p>\n

When we would attend conferences or seminars there were always vendors displaying their wares. Two years into my career and still deep in debt I would park my car around the corner of the venue so that no one would see what I was driving, but even without a cent to my name it was easy to see how a computer in my office would revolutionize any growing practice – even mine!<\/p>\n

So $12,000 later and my office was the first in my area to have the top of the line system installed under our front desk. The transition from paper to computer was not easy (I go into detail about this in my seminars) but my practice began to explode from day one. These words may seem insignificant, but for a professional in private practice, this was like stepping on board the USS Enterprise and zooming off to uncharted corners of the universe where no man had gone before!<\/p>\n

We were now able to:<\/p>\n