Software
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Much Anticipated Proposal For Certification or Certified EHR
While many are still talking to the EHR vendors at the exhibit halls at the HIMSS 2010, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released yesterday the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for the two certification programs. This proposed program has two proposals in it. One that will be temporary and the [...]
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 [...]
The Seldom Talked About Pieces of eRx
As a kid, when I received some type of toy, the most exciting aspect was figuring out how it worked. I couldn’t just play with it, I needed to tear it apart, analyze it and rebuild it. I guess this has followed me into my career, as I disassembled eRx to its pieces. The [...]
Sometimes the Best Things in Life Really are Free!
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 [...]
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