IDEXX Cornerstone® CoachingMaximizing your investment with CornerstoneIDEXX Cornerstone® Coaching is designed to help you reach your practice goals, such as becoming paper-light and improving utilization and efficiencies. We offer customized Web-based training, on-site coaching and remote analysis services with an IDEXX Performance Improvement Specialist who works with you to assess existing skills, get specific Cornerstone feature training and empower your staff to measure and manage their performance. |
Choose the right series to meet your practice needs
Cornerstone Coaching offers targeted, flexible solutions, whether you need to educate new or existing staff or have specific practice goals that require advanced instruction. In order to understand your unique coaching needs, we recommend as a first step that you complete the online IDEXX Discovery Tool. Next, we suggest utilizing one or more of the analysis services so you can gain a better understanding of Cornerstone usage within your practice setting. And then, our remote and on-site Cornerstone Coaching options reference the knowledge acquired from the analysis services and apply best practices to help you achieve your practice goals. Since Cornerstone Coaching plans can vary just as much as practice objectives do, we invite you to choose a customized path within the Cornerstone Coaching offerings to meet your educational objectives.
Choose from a variety of Cornerstone Coaching options:
The setup of client, patient and medical information has a significant impact on the efficiency of your practice.
You will receive:
- An expert review and analysis of your database setup and usage
- A written report followed by a 2-hour phone consultation
- Suggestions regarding areas such as security, invoice items and protocol creation to improve patient care, client satisfaction and operational efficiencies
- Implementation and project planning for each recommendation
Cornerstone Inventory Database Analysis 

Improve your most challenging aspect of practice management—inventory.
You will receive:
- An expert review and analysis of your database’s inventory item setup transactions and key metrics
- A written report followed by a 2-hour phone consultation
- Recommendations for managing invoice item setup such as Smart Groups and Pick Lists, auto calculate markup and margin, unit profit, reminder setup, outdated product and other areas of focus
- An action plan to correct inventory management issues
Cornerstone Management and Workflow Analysis 

Managing change is often a key to success in implementing practice management software changes. This 2-day coaching session will support your practice by developing an approach to the following steps:
- Create a compelling business case for change
- Vision and change management kickoff
- Electronic medical record strategy—options overview
- Change management interviews with staff
- Work-flow analysis, documentation and learning
- Project planning, incorporating interviews and desired work flow
Cornerstone Integrated Practice Analysis 

Identify key areas of your practice that enable successful change and those that are barriers to technology integration.
You will receive:
- A report card of your current technology, standards of care, staffing and leadership, and measurement in light of operational best practices
- Mentoring in methods for overcoming organizational challenges in implementing an electronic medical record using Cornerstone software
- Goal setting and project planning to map out your journey to the best practices in veterinary business and medicine
- Follow-up coaching and a toolkit that provides suggestions on how to overcome barriers and identify next steps
Cornerstone Whiteboard Setup and Implementation 

Ideal for those who will lead the setup and implementation of the Electronic Whiteboard in their practice.
You will learn both whiteboard setup and how your staff can use the whiteboard through the following topics:
- Whiteboard work flow—overview
- Whiteboard setup and defaults
- Patient orders
- Processing treatments and services for other work flows
- Whiteboard treatment completion
- Whiteboard reports
Cornerstone Enhanced Medical Notes and Correspondence Documents 

Your staff will appreciate using the new combined window for medical notes and correspondence. Learn to efficiently navigate the enhanced medical notes and correspondence through these topics:
- Document uses and types
- Documents and templates: status, properties and saving
- Document templates and document content elements
- Start New Document window
- Cornerstone Editor
- Document defaults and security
Cornerstone Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Whiteboard Setup 

Perfect for key practice leaders responsible for the setup of their paper-light practice.
You will learn:
- EMR assessment and goals
- Security and defaults—introduction to guides
- Cornerstone screen work flow—overview
- Physical Exam setup
- Problem and diagnosis setup
- Smart Group and Pick List setup
- Medical note template setup
- Client correspondence referral
- Document setup
Cornerstone Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Whiteboard Usage 

Targeted to the medical team of the progressing paper-light practice.
Topics include:
- EMR assessment and goals
- EMR component—overview
- Cornerstone screen work flows
- Medical note entry
- Physical Exam
- Laboratory requests and results
- Medical illustrations in imaging
- Electronic Whiteboard
Cornerstone Inventory Management 

Designed for inventory managers at all levels, whether you are just getting started or want to maximize utilization.
You will learn:
- Inventory assessment and goals
- Inventory settings, preparation and cleanup
- Purchasing, receiving and depleting inventory
- Adjustments and transfers
- Multiple-site and single-location tips
- Best practice concepts, techniques
- Improvement steps
Finding Reports and Answers Using Cornerstone 

Learn how to access predefined reports that answer common client report questions and provide other key metrics to measure the health of your practice.
Topics include:
- Cornerstone reports overview
- Cornerstone reports security
- Measurement and management plan (Cornerstone Measurement Dashboard)
- Common reports for client report questions
- Report selection, output and resource tips
- Compliance Assessment Tool setup and usage
- Snapshot
- Cornerstone® performance tracker
Cornerstone for Multiple Locations 

Make the switch from single- to multiple-location inventory and Multi-Location/Single Database functionality. This 8.5-hour consultation is designed to give initial instruction to key staff from all locations. Additional coaching time can be purchased for specific setup and training needs for each location.
The initial consultation will address the following topics:
- Non-inventory multiple-practice setup
- Patient visit steps—windows with multiple-practice identifiers
- Multiple-practice reminders
- Multiple-practice reports
- Multiple-location inventory—setup and usage
- Document defaults and security
Online Discovery Tool
The online Discovery Tool is the first step in understanding your unique practice needs. It will help to identify your practice’s current utilization of and next steps with the IDEXX Cornerstone Practice Management System, IDEXX VetLab® in-house analyzers, IDEXX Digital Imaging Systems and IDEXX Reference Laboratories. Through simple clicks and form field completion, you’ll receive a Cornerstone Coaching Plan with recommended phases and approaches to reach your desired implementation and goals of improved patient care, productivity and practice management.
For more information about IDEXX Cornerstone Coaching, call 1-800-283-8386 or view the Cornerstone Coaching Program brochure (PDF).
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