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Guest Post, Katie Matlack You want irony? Try this: the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that we women are the ones make the health care choices for the kids in 8 out of 10 families. Yet women are far and away the minority gender in the world of health IT leaders. Health IT is one […]
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From Capterra comes this great infographic showing the Top 20 Most Popular Electronic Medical Records Software Solutions. For more on how they compiled the data go to Topping the Charts: The 20 Most Popular EMR Solutions © 2011 Capterra, Inc.
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MPT Podcast 35 – 101 Ideas to Increase Revenue & Decrease Costs Part 2, with guest Mary Pat Whaley of ManageMyPractice.com. Ms. Whaley shares more of her many suggestions for increasing profit for your medical practice. This Issue (7:30): Some useful tips on obtaining Meaningful Use incentives Why you shouldn’t purchase an EMR just for the […]
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If you comb through the blogosphere on the topic of electronic medical records, you may find a surprising amount of negative commentary. And if you mention the financial incentives for meaningful use implementation, things get downright testy: anti-government sentiment, conspiracy theories, and a call to resist the temptation to go paperless. They site studies that […]
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Guest Post: Katie Matlack As I settle in to my role as Medical Software Analyst at Software Advice, I’ve begun to wonder: What separates those who realize the benefits of an EMR from those who don’t? What are the critical success factors that can help ensure a practice’s switch to EMRs is truly transformational? To […]
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According to an article on the AMA Med News online, increased age of a physician is not necessarily correlated with resistance to EMR use. A study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston published in JAMA found that physicians who were at least ten years out of training and busier than their younger counterparts were […]
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MPT Podcast 32 – The Changing Security Landscape – The How Healthcare is Becoming More of a Target, with guest Mike Meikle of Hawkthorne Group Consulting This Issue (5:30): Why hackers are targeting healthcare and why medical practices should be concerned The impact of data breaches Why medicine is particularly vulnerable Some steps that healthcare […]
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Below is an actual letter received – and almost thrown away – by an employee of a medical practice. They almost threw it away because it looked like junk mail. It turned out to be a letter from a RAC (Recovery Audit Contractor) who was auditing their practice. They figured that the letter was purposefully […]
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Is Your Practice Ready To Go Paperless? There’s no doubt that the meaningful use incentive money, made available by the ARRA HITECH Act (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act) is drawing a boatload of attention. Under this legislation, the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) Center […]