In a post on Becker’s Hospital Review, Jaimie Oh presents a list of 11 best practices for maximizing healthcare IT incentive payments. And although the audience is specifically administrators of hospitals, if you are a physician or medical practice administrator there is still much you can take home from the following recommendations: Figure out what […]
2010
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According to the 2010 HIMSS Security Survey, with responses from 272 healthcare IT and security professionals, hospitals and medical practices are spending more on information technology (IT) security but still spend less on average than companies in other industries. The results of the third annual survey were reported on CMIO.net and included other interesting facts: […]
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Although most kids these days spend most of their time on social media, you may be asking how this is relevant to your medical practice. But did you know that most Fortune 500 companies have embraced social media marketing in addition to more traditional venues such as a company website? So why should your practice […]
Tagged with: facebook, social media, twitter, website
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It wasn’t too long ago that very few medical practices had a website (we’ve had one since about 1997). But times have changed. Now, the strong majority of medical practices have had a website designed, using things like cheap web hosting to get their name out on the internet. And now some would argue that […]
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Are Your Electronic Medical Records For Sale?
Electronic medical records are for sale to any group that can prove they would use it for research, according to a Fortune article on CNNMoney.com. In it, they cite a report by a Texas watchdog publication called the Austin Bulldog that uncovered 100 different buyers between January 2009 and April 2010. Primarily pharmaceutical companies, these […]
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Meaningful Use: What About Specialists?
If you are medical or surgical specialist, you’re probably groaning about the prospect of implementing some of the meaningful use criteria. According to an article on Healthcare Technology Online: Every one of the six core clinical quality measures (and most of the 38 additional clinical quality measures) are focused on primary care. Moreover, the recently-formed, […]
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What are the Benefits of EMR?
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Tagged with: EMR Electronic Medical Records, EMR implementation, video
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About 8 years ago or so, our practice decided to move from paper records to electronic records. The decision was helped along by the fact that we were literally running out of space for our paper charts. I had been looking at electronic medical records systems (EMRs) for years prior to this but could not […]
Tagged with: healthcare IT, human resources
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Finally a Fix For the SGR Problem?
Many of you might not be aware, but part of the ‘deal’ the AMA made with the Obama administration was that they agreed to support the Healthcare Reform legislation in return for a final fix to the SGR (sustainable growth rate) for Medicare reimbursement. Alas, when the cat was let out of the bag and […]
Tagged with: Blanche Lincoln, Medicare Economic Index, MEI, SGR, sustainable growth rate
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Why You Need Video to Market Your Practice
Do you have a website? How old is it? It might be time for a makeover. When you realize how quickly technology changes, a ten-year-old website can be downright obsolete. A post on emrsystem.net says that, with the explosion of such sites as YouTube and Hulu video on your site is a must nowadays. The […]