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 [...]

The Official Web Site for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs

In recent months things have started to take shape and health care leaders are more than ever perfectly aware of all the requirements of the ARRA.
While only recently we had the final ruling on the certification process for the EHR products, The center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) release recently a  site that contains [...]

“Meaningful Use” Has Come to Stay

First, what is meaningful use? For me it has two definitions.
A couple of months ago I was explaining to my wife the definition of EHR “meaningful use” over dinner. She was nodding her head and seemingly listening more intently than normal to my work-related subject.  As soon as I was done talking, she quickly said [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]