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Medical Billing / RCM | Practice Management | Electronic Health Records
By:
Stephen O'Connor
April 11th, 2018
We live in an era of accelerated change with constant innovation in technology, including medical equipment, computers, and software that never stay the same for very long. While your primary focus is on providing outstanding healthcare service, you have to devote some time and attention to staying up-to-date with all your technology too, since we rely so much on devices and applications to provide medical services.
Practice Management | Electronic Health Records
By:
Christina Rosario
April 4th, 2018
The more actionable information that you can collect on the patients you treat in your practice, the more opportunity you and your staff have to provide excellent, state-of-the-art care. These days, many medical practices are looking beyond the confines of their own data center and are starting to migrate some of their computational infrastructure into the cloud. Cloud computing services provide a range of advantages to organizations large and small, and the medical profession in particular stands to benefit a great deal because of the convenience and ease of data management.
Learn why patient engagement is a necessity and how you can master it within your practice.
Electronic Health Records | Healthcare Advice
By:
Stephen O'Connor
November 30th, 2017
A patient portal is not the door that people walk through to get inside your medical practice. It is the term given to the electronic portal that you can enable for them thanks to your electronic health record software. Essentially, it is a way for patients to log into their account to check on details of their healthcare and to ask questions of the staff, with information protected by robust security.
Practice Management | Electronic Health Records
By:
Stephen O'Connor
September 7th, 2017
When you run an orthopedic practice, your staff will have different processes and needs to address as compared to other specialties as well as family doctors. For example, you likely will have more referral patients, coming from emergency rooms, pain clinics, and general doctors, with the need to share information with these various entities to keep them updated on the progress of the patients.
By:
Stephen O'Connor
August 16th, 2017
For the uninitiated, when someone in the medical community mentions “EHR,” he or she is talking about electronic health records. An EHR is a vital application that is becoming nearly indispensable in most medical organizations, including those that treat Medicare and Medicaid patients and want to receive financial rewards from the government in exchange for demonstrating meaningful use of certified, up-to-date EHR technology because of the efficiencies it enables.
By:
Stephen O'Connor
May 23rd, 2017
Doesn’t it seem faintly ridiculous that patients have to jump through hoops to get access to information that, since it is in digital format, would be so readily available to them? Today’s patients are quite accustomed to being able to access data on demand, from whatever location on Earth, as long as they have Internet access and a mobile device or laptop computer.
By:
Stephen O'Connor
April 5th, 2017
Work in your medical practice can become so intense, with nearly every spare minute already scheduled for important, pending tasks, that it can sometimes be difficult to see that there are labor-saving options that you simply haven’t yet been able to budget time and resources to investigate.
Medical Billing / RCM | Practice Management | Electronic Health Records
By:
Stephen O'Connor
March 14th, 2017
It almost goes without saying that the needs of pain management practices are quite different from those of other specialties. Addressing the needs of patients coping with acutely painful situations and managing patients’ chronic pain properly while meeting law enforcement requirements can spell the difference between a relatively speedy recovery or prolonged care that may include complications.
Electronic Health Records | Industry News
By:
Advanced Data Systems Corporation
March 6th, 2017
The following is an excerpt from an article originally published on Healthcare Dive. It was written by Meg Bryant. While there is still plenty of room for improving the usability of electronic health records (EHRs) and making them more affordable for care providers, experts are trying to get folks to focus on their future potential. The barriers to EHR implementation and interoperability are slowly coming down and once they do, vendors will start looking to add more functionalities to the systems.
By:
Stephen O'Connor
February 15th, 2017
Healthcare professionals know that managing behavioral, mental health, and addiction treatment practices is quite different than managing family medicine practices and practices devoted to various specialties, such as cardiology, oncology or pediatrics. Further adding to the complexities of BH and addiction medicine is the fact that organizations can be run on an in-patient basis, partial inpatient basis, or strictly outpatient basis.