Technology
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 [...]
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 [...]
Top 10 EHR Failure Contributing Factors
With the Economic Stimulus bill recently enacted into law by President Barack Obama, and recent relaxation of the Stark Rules allowing hospitals to subsidize up to 85% of implementation costs of EHR, many are renewing their interest in an EHR purchase. But while many are excited about the encouraging subsidies available, others are still fearful of [...]
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 New Toys on the Block – What the Tech Savvy Provider Will Ask For
In every group there are few providers that are the trend setters when it comes to cool electronic gadgets and technology. Likely, there are several tech companies that are looking to leverage that thirst of technology “du jour”. Many providers are beginning to send patients home with devices already. This enables the caregivers to collect [...]
