Time to Outsource Your Medical Billing
Medical practitioners and healthcare providers are finding themselves continuously squeezed for time and money. None more so than in the present economic climate. Times could get busier with the advent...
View ArticleEHR Medical Records Systems Improve with Feedback From Clinical Users
The American Medical Association recently wrote about a report about how to make medical records better, useful and easier to work with. The consensus of the report was there is no public place to...
View ArticleStudies Show EHRs Hold a Big Connection With Better Preventive and Chronic Care
A select number of studies have been produced that actually record and take into account where some of the most common care issues fall when using electronic medical records. This report in...
View ArticleMedical Records Shared Electronically–Governor Deval Patrick’s Medical...
Last week the exchange for the sharing of electronic medical records went into action in Massachusetts and the governor was right there to lend his support and have his medical record information sent....
View ArticleAmbulatory EHR Medical Record Market Is Shared by More than 300 Vendors
Modern Healthcare reports that there are over 300 vendors in the medical record business and I know it has been growing but had no idea that the list of vendors was this large for ambulatory systems,...
View ArticleGreenway Medical Technologies Interoperability Expands to Exchange...
Information Week reports on Greenway Medical this week and their expansion efforts as an ambulatory EMR to connect with both Epic and Cerner Medical Records which are used in hospitals. Greenway is...
View ArticleSome Doctors Cite that EHRs and Related Costs are One of the Underlying...
This report has a few different twists and turns to it and this is a survey but it does make one point about the frustrations and costs that private practices think about today. We all know the way of...
View ArticleCerner and the NBA Working to Improve Healthcare for the NBA–“HealtheAthlete”...
I’m sure we can all agree that NBA players probably receive excellent healthcare but until now who knows how it was all coordinated, as I’m sure there’s some paper out there and perhaps some already...
View ArticleCerner Partners with Global Capacity to Offer “Cerner Skybox Connect”, A...
The full Skybox project is to be completed by the end of this year. According to the press release Global Capacity approached Cerner with their cloud applications and Cerner determined it was a...
View ArticleMedicare End of Consultation Fees Provided Uptick in Medicare Spending–Not...
With all the current discussions on medical records and coding, the American Medical Association today has a with a study to shed some light with a surprise change in billing with the removal of...
View ArticleCMS Wants To Help You Maximize Your EMR So They Get the Reports They Want
Fierce Health IT published this article today discussing how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to help you so they can benefit with better information from EMRs, such a deal. What...
View ArticleIs HIT Interoperability in the Nature of Healthcare?
Application Programming Interfaces are up for discussion today, is this the future of interoperability with medical records? Anyone in the HIT/EHR business today can pretty much attest to the...
View ArticleEHR Nightmare
Throughout the past two years, I have rotated mainly through one system. To my dismay, it had been one of the worst as far as electronic health records (EHR) are concerned. Most days I observed the...
View ArticleSometimes Breaking Up Isn’t That Hard To Do
by DAN HALEY, VP OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS – athenahealth April 22, 2014 This week athenahealth resigned from the Electronic Health Records Association (EHRA), the trade association that ostensibly...
View ArticleDo EMR and Practice Management systems really improve efficiency or was it a...
New and seasoned Practice Managers and Physicians know that handling the day to day tasks of running a medical practice can be time consuming. Administrative tasks and responsibilities have increased...
View ArticleWebinar: Where does it hurt? Common Physician Pain Points
Join athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush for a special keynote address on common physician pain points, followed by an exclusive Q&A and expert-led sessions. “Where does it hurt?” is a common question...
View ArticleThe Critical Role of ‘Delightful’ Design in Mobile Healthcare
by ABBE DON, VP OF USER EXPERIENCE, EPOCRATES The Health Leadership Forum sat down with Abbe Don, Vice President of User Experience at Epocrates to discuss trends in mobile healthcare technology and...
View ArticleWebinar: Staying Independent and Profitable as Independent Physicians
Staying Independent and Profitable as Independent Physicians Join us Wednesday, June 18th at 12:15 p.m. ET Faced with mounting costs, declining reimbursement, and increased complexity brought on by the...
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