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EMR Update 6 – eRx and PQRI: Are Your Leaving Money on the Table? This Issue: How can your practice qualify for ‘Stimulus Bill’ financial incentives? ePrescribing(eRx) & PQRI – what bonuses can you expect for each? How do you make a claim? Find out about PQRI Toolset, a tool that can help you […]
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One of the goals of meaningful use and all the related federal spending of health IT is for EMRs to improve care coordination. But the current reimbursement system that’s heavy on fee-for-service encourages software developers and users alike to focus on documentation of billable events rather than coordination of care, a new study finds. Read […]
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As we get closer to 2011, the health IT initiatives are heating up. Here’s a timely article on this subject: Last week, one day shy of its Dec. 31 2009 deadline, the Dept. of Health and Human Services issued its long-awaited near-final rules defining the “meaningful use” requirements doctors and hospitals must meet to cash […]
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today a proposed outline for Meaningful Use criteria, in accordance with EMR implementation provisions under the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. These specify some of the guidelines by which physicians […]
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EMR Implementation – How do you stack up against your colleagues? We’ll post the results in a week or so. Click the Next button after you answer each question [SURVEYS 1]
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Previously, I described some of the benefits gained from having an office computer network, even if you haven’t yet implemented an electronic medical records system. At our practice, even as we prepared for EMR, we began to see unexpected benefits. At that time, the thought that a computer network could help improve overall efficiency in […]
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One of my partners asked if our practice could use free GMail instead of replacing our old and failing mail server (not free) and having to purchase the licensing for the Microsoft software (definitely not free). When I looked into it, it turned out to be a bit more complicated than just deciding between a […]
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It doesn’t matter if your practice is just a single doctor at one location, or numerous physicians across multiple satellite offices. Either way, even before you can implement an EMR system, you’ll need to start by developing your system infrastructure. Although typically a contractor will take care of the network wiring for your office network, […]
