The Perfect Health IT Engineer is like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Everyone likes to believe it exists, but nobody has ever found it. The truth of the matter is that the perfect Health IT engineer is actually made up of a team of engineers. It’s like the saying goes [...]
In today’s complex healthcare environment where reimbursement cuts are a reality and global economic hardship is felt across all medical facilities, practice administrators are eagerly looking for new cost effective solutions. New methods that will improve staff productivity, patient care and a way to eliminate the endemic of paper based workflows being used today.
When one [...]
In the vastly regulated and costly healthcare industry, doctors’ offices, hospitals and other providers are under pressure to improve operational efficiency and reduce cost while sustaining exceptional patient care. One technology that healthcare organizations can employ to increase HIPAA compliancy and lower cost of operations is electronic faxing.
Electronic faxing uses the internet to send and [...]
Server virtualization is defined as the masking of server resources, including the number and identity of individual phys… Stop right there! Seriously, nobody expects you to know everything about such a complex field without devoting the majority of your day to it. Here’s what all the fuss is about. The number one draw to virtualization [...]
In the healthcare industry it seems like everything is double the cost of what it should be. Well it is time to reverse the pattern and makeup for the bloated expenses with some free stuff. Who doesn’t love free stuff? Sometimes people camp for days on end in front of stores just to a get [...]
Today, many medical practices are using tremendous amounts of paper forms and complex processes. With MOSS 2007 or the FREE Windows SharePoint services 3.0 software you can automate paper based work-flow, reporting and collaborative tasks. Whether your focus is on centralizing your organizations policies and procedures, or simply sharing the providers’ calendar on an intranet [...]
If you’re buried in IT invoices and spend too much time wondering why you pay for IT services that should have been included in the IT firm’s responsibilities, then the SLA is for you. By confirming the costs, expectations and who is responsible for what, surprise invoices are a thing of the past. No more [...]
Palm identification is an easy to use biometric solution to accurately ID a patient during check-in. The patient’s palm is digitally scanned without touching the reader, which creates a unique digital signature that is attached to the digital medical record. Upon each return visit, the patient’s hand is scanned linking their unique identity to the [...]
There are various ways patients pay their bills online. The two most popular methods are Practice Management Software add-ons from your software vendor or third party web services. Both solutions often require additional upfront costs, long term commitments, or can be complicated involved processes. One simple and often overlooked solution is PayPal. This add-on to [...]