Medical IT Audit and Technology Assessment

With many medical organizations seeking to implement EHR systems and become paperless, they have become increasingly dependent on their computerized information systems to provide care to their patients, maintain the medical records and carry out their operations. Read More

Reda Chouffani is the Co-Founder of Biz Technology Solutions, Inc and an active Healthcare Information Technology writer [...]

Social Media & The Medical Practice: An Introduction

As with all businesses, medical practices face competition from other offices in their area and must differentiate themselves by portraying value and quality to their prospective clients. Your practice’s marketing plan must be centered on helping prospective and current patients best understand how your practice works, what services you provide, and act as a non-invasive [...]

Am I Better Off With ASP or Client/Server Model For My PMS and EHR?

As a business development person in the healthcare industry, I spend a considerable amount of time talking to medical practice managers and providers. When it comes to acquiring Practice Management and Electronic Medical Records software the question I hear repeatedly is: “Do I go with an ASP or Client\Server solution?”
In an ASP (Application Service Provider) [...]

Three Easy Steps to GO Paperless Quickly on a Budget

Step 1- Replace Your Paper Charts
I don’t have to tell you that the burden of administrative and clinical documents in a medical practice is considerable. Busy offices lead to inaccessible administrative documents and charts; whether misplaced, lost, or in use by another staff member. Physician practices continue to seek solutions to reduce or eliminate the [...]

The Secret to Reducing Your Practices IT Costs

Are you frustrated with technology that is supposed to make your life easier but it’s not? Is your computer infrastructure slow and goes down when you need it the most? Is your cost of computer support ridiculously high and you are tired of paying for issues that are still not resolved? Certainly, I could go [...]

Finding the Train Ticket to EHR Implementation

One of the most overlooked steps when choosing a new EHR is to clearly define the future state.  The future state is how you envision a new system will run for the practice. It is the final destination after implementing a new EHR.  This is your organization’s wish list to design the most efficient processes [...]

Real-Time Claim Adjudication, a “New” Way to Look at Collecting Your Money

In a time where we are reminded daily that much of the current technologies (EHR, HIE, EDI, and others) will reduce medical error, improve patient care, we tend to overlook the prolific results that other technologies have to offer to health organizations. The market offers that great solutions that billing departments across the nation would [...]

Offsite Backups On the Right Track?

HIPAA requires the ability to establish and maintain reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to ensure integrity, confidentiality, and availability of the information. Every day, thousands of users lose critical data to malware, computer mishaps, and disaster situations. From our earliest experiences with computers, we have been told to make back up copies [...]

Forward Thinking For Your Back-up Solution

HIPAA and Your Back-up Solution
164.308 Administrative safeguards (7)(ii)(A) Data backup plan (Required). Establish and implement procedures to create and maintain retrievable exact copies of electronic protected health information.
A recent survey stated that only 37 percent of companies that back up their data actually test its integrity and recoverability. And about 77 percent of that group fail to restore their [...]

10 Steps to Selecting the Right EHR Solution For Your Practice

As many medical practices shift gears toward a paperless environment, it’s clear to many they must first investigate what potential incentives will be available to them if they participated in the Stimulus healthcare information technology HITECH. Additionally they will need to identify which product would be the most cost effective and offers the highest return [...]