Sebastian Mitchell, Guest post: There are many daily chores to being a good physician. Patient care, nursing staff issues, medical decision making, patient paper work and referrals, constant prescription refills requests; the list goes on and on. This list goes on even longer if you run your own private practice, to […]
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MPT Podcast 24 – Scanning Paper Records Into Your EMR System: Setting Up An Action Plan, with guest Mary Pat Whaley of ManageMyPractice.com. Ms. Whaley discusses some tips and best practices based on her extensive experience advising medical practices. This Issue (8:12): The importance of ‘storyboarding’ your strategy for paper chart conversion How to decide […]
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The iPad has become one of the most successful consumer electronic devices. and their popularity may be starting to have an effect on healthcare, according to an article on Software Advice. They report that an article in the AMA News states that “27% of [physicians] on an iPad or similar device-a rate five times higher […]
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Many new EHR users currently view clinical quality measures as just another item on the checklist towards demonstrating meaningful use. However, veteran EHR users like Northwest Health Services, Inc., which has been using EHR for 7 years, sees clinical quality measures as an important tool that enables providers to distinguish between perceptions and reality when […]
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An overview by AthenaHealth Yes, it is a commercial. But it is a clever overview of the what the HITECH Act is all about, especially if you consider yourself a newbie when it comes to EHR and Meaningful Use. So grab some popcorn and enjoy.