The Value of an Integrated Specialty EHR Approach
As many of you know, I’ve long been an advocate for the specialty specific EHR. There are just tremendous advantages in having an EHR that’s focused only on your specialty. Then, you don’t get things like child growth charts cluttering your EHR when you don’t see any children. Or taken the other way, you have child growth charts that are designed specifically for a pediatrician. This can be applied across pretty much every industry.
The reason that many organizations don’t go with a specialty specific EHR is usually because they’re a large multi specialty organization. These organiz...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 19, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare Interoperability HealthCare IT Ambulatory Surgery Centers GI EHR GI EMR gMed Specialty Specific EHR Source Type: blogs
Pediatric EHR Selection Checklist for Small & Mid-sized Clinics
Replacing your Pediatric EMR?
If you are thinking of replacing your existing EMR system for your pediatric health care practice, you’re not alone: an increasing number of pediatric practices are replacing their existing Pediatric EHR due to a multitude of reasons. For today’s pediatric practices, the concern with selection of a new replacement Pediatric EHR is twofold: streamlining operations for increased efficiency and enhanced ability to meet the specific needs of pediatric patients.
But not all pediatric EHRs are created equally. The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, which evaluates comp...
Source: EMR EHR Blog for Physicians - January 19, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Alok Prasad Tags: Specialty EHR Software Pediatric EMR Software Source Type: blogs
Top 5 Claim Denials - Implementing Denial Management Strategy
5 Common Medical Practice Denials
5 Commonly Denied Procedures
Denials are an ugly reality that every physician practice must address. It’s not a question or whether practices will receive a denial—it’s a question of when and why.
RemitDATA—a company that provides comparative analytics data for the outpatient provider market—reported in September 2014 that these five procedure codes most frequently result in unexpected denials:
99213 (outpatient doctor visit, level 3)
99214 (outpatient doctor visit, level 4)
36415 (routine blood capture)
99232 (subsequent hospital care)
97110 (therapeutic exercise...
Source: EMR EHR Blog for Physicians - December 29, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Alok Prasad Tags: Denial Management Source Type: blogs
ICD-10: HHS Officially Delays Compliance Deadline to October 1, 2015; CMS Publishes 2015 ICD-10 Guidelines
In August, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule which delayed the transition to ICD-10 until October 1, 2015, one year away. Prior to the enactment of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA), the health care industry was preparing to transition to ICD-10 by October 1st of this year. Last week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the official ICD-10 Guidelines for Coding and Reporting.
CMS explains that these guidelines should be used in conjunction with the official version of the ICD-10-CM as publ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 15, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Henry Schein Practice Solutions Opens New Utah Headquarters Featuring "Center Of Excellence" Equipped With State-Of-The-Art Digital Dental Equipment & Technology
MELVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the world's largest provider of health care products and services to office-based dental, animal health and medical practitioners, announced today the grand opening of a new headquarters building for its Practice Solutions business in American Fork, Utah, that will offer practitioners a state-of-the-art training facility on digital dentistry.The 100,000-square-foot, environmentally friendly facility features a "Center of Excellence" equipped with high-quality digital dental equipment and technology from Henry Schein's ...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - August 20, 2014 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
Los Angeles Dental Students take Carestream Dental Equipment to a Community that Needs it Most
ATLANTA—According to the World Health Organization, Honduras has only two dentists per 10,000 people; the United States has eight times that number. To address this need for dental professionals, Carestream Dental recently loaned an RVG intraoral digital imaging system to members of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) Philanthropy Committee, comprised of University of California, Los Angeles dental students, for their 2014 dental mission trips to Guaimaca, Honduras. Four fourth year dental students; three third year dental students; four pre-dental students; and two UCLA faculty—one periodontist and...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - August 19, 2014 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
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OnTrack from Patterson Dental Streamlines Business Intelligence, Discovers Hidden Successes Individualized Behavior Development Enables Dental Practices to Achieve Personalized GoalsST. PAUL, Minn. (August 5, 2014) – Patterson Dental Supply, Inc. today announces the re-launch of OnTrack®, a business intelligence system designed for dental practices. This cloud-based web tool provides dental practices the opportunity to track and define important behavioral and financial factors, automatically build key indicators to measure performance and goals, and provide solutions to achieve individually set objectives. OnTrack’s ...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - August 12, 2014 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
New Echocardiography Reporting Software for Small Practices
There is a new reporting solution for Echocardiography published by Tempo Allegro called Tempo Reports designed for private echo practices.
It grabs the measurement data from the ultrasound machine and stores them in a database. Reports can be generated with Microsoft Word with completely configurable templates. It also integrates with most practice management solutions.
If you are interested check out the Tempo Allegro website for more info. (Source: radRounds)
Source: radRounds - August 3, 2014 Category: Radiologists Authors: Neva Bull Source Type: blogs
10 Ways Many Dental Offices Are Breaching HIPAA
The following is a guest blog post by Trevor James.
If you work in the health/dental/medical space, you already know that HIPAA violations are a serious matter. Fines today for not complying with HIPAA laws and regulations are a minimum of $100-$50,000 per violation or record and a maximum of $1.5 million per year for violations of the same provision. Some violations also carry criminal charges with them, resulting in jail time for the violators.
Many dental offices are breaching HIPAA laws without realizing it or have employees doing so without their knowledge.
If you’re a dentist, office manager, or someone who’s be...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 28, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: HealthCare IT HIPAA Breaches HIPAA General Dental HIPAA Breaches HIPAA Dentists Source Type: blogs
What EHR/PM vendors should do as 63% of buyers look to replace existing PM solutions
Melissa McCormack, a medical researcher with EHR consultancy group Software Advice, recently published their medical practice management BuyerView research, which found that 63% of the buyers were replacing existing PM solutions, rather than making a first-time purchase. This mirrors the trend we’ve seen across medical software purchasing, where the HITECH Act may have prompted hasty first purchases of EHR solutions, followed by replacements 1-2 years later. For PM vendors, this means there’s a huge opportunity to market your products to practices as an upgrade, even if they’re already using PM software. I reached ...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - July 23, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
What EHR/PM vendors should do as 63% of buyers look to replace existing PM solutions
Melissa McCormack, a medical researcher with EHR consultancy group Software Advice, recently published their medical practice management BuyerView research, which found that 63% of the buyers were replacing existing PM solutions, rather than making a first-time purchase. This mirrors the trend we ’ve seen across medical software purchasing, where the HITECH Act may have prompted hasty first purchases of EHR solutions, followed by replacements 1-2 years later. For PM vendors, this means there’s a huge opportunity to market your products to practices as an upgrade, even if they’re alread y using PM software. (Source: T...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - July 23, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Harnessing Open Source Technology to Drive Outcomes in Healthcare
I’ve long been a fan of open source technologies. My blogs are run and created almost entirely on open source software. In fact, I first wrote about open source EMR on this blog back in January of 2006. We’ve come a long way since then with Vista being the top open source EHR in the hospital world and OpenEMR leading the pack in the ambulatory world.
We’re starting to see more and more application of open source technology in other areas of healthcare IT beyond EMR as well. There are some really amazing advantages to a thriving open source community. I think the key there is to have a thriving open s...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 22, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare HealthCare IT Open Source EMR Achieve Health Drupal Drupal in Healthcare Open Source EHR Open Source Healthcare IT OpenEMR Vista Source Type: blogs
