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 […]
Medical Practice Technology Trends
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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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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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The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), one of the two entities approved for certifying electronic health records (EHR) systems, has just announced the first wave of EHR/EMR products (33 for now) officially achieving Stage 1 certification. The ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification program tests and certifies that [a particular] EHR technology is capable of meeting […]
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So, what is more challenging than the rigors of medical school training? According to an article in Fierce Practice Management, newly practicing physicians are facing increasing financial struggles keeping their new practices afloat. Among the expenses they face are student loan payments, office rent, and malpractice premiums, all in an environment of economic depression and […]