What Is the Future for Rural Physicians? Is There One?
This article says that these and all the technology to go with them along with physician acceptance is “Inevitable”.
I have four physicians. I don’t see a place for them long term. My first is my Internist. A few years ago he was given a cell phone as a gift. It does all he will ever want. If it rings, he answers it. If he has to make a call, he dials the number. He has no computers in his office. All his files are paper. As a Doctor he is recognized as one of the best in the state. EHR is not in his future. Phones, fax, copier suit him just fine. The article that raised these questions for me ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 28, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Paul Smith Tags: ACO EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR HealthCare IT Deloitte Healthcare Small Practice Physician Value Based Care Value Based Reimbursement Source Type: blogs
7 Tips for Improving Patient Collections
This article provides seven tips for improving patient collections in the physician practice setting. These tips should serve as the basis for a practice’s overall collections strategy to reduce bad debt and enhance revenue.
Tip #1: Register patients before their appointments. This includes checking insurance eligibility to ensure that the coverage is active and to identify any copayments and/or deductibles for which patients may be responsible. Let patients know in advance whether any money will be due on the day of the visit. This gives patients the opportunity to ask questions and check with their insurer if they fe...
Source: EMR EHR Blog for Physicians - January 26, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Alok Prasad Tags: Patient Portal Patient Collections Source Type: blogs
Are You Reaping The Rewards After Implementing EHR Software?
Conclusion
The stories published on the HIT Web site reflect the endless possibilities of EHR technology. Practices are using EHRs to improve healthcare quality, engage patients, reduce costs, provide more comprehensive care, and even save lives. By addressing the barriers and challenges of implementation, physician practices can tap into the benefits of this innovative technology.
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Source: EMR EHR Blog for Physicians - January 6, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Alok Prasad Tags: Patient Engagement EHR Implementation EMR cost EHR Training Source Type: blogs
Top 7 Otolaryngology EMR Software Features to Guide Your Investment
EMRs don’t exist in a vacuum: their usefulness is dependent upon optimal integration within the medical practice. Because each organization and specialty has its own unique demands which exist outside the parameters of basic EMRs, the ability to customize continues to be one of the most important features. This is particularly applicable in the field of otolaryngology where the right kind of workflow can vastly enhance productivity and profitability while the wrong kind can be a significant impediment to quality of care. There are many available EMR choices today, and identifying the one that will best meet the needs of ...
Source: EMR EHR Blog for Physicians - December 23, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Alok Prasad Tags: Patient Engagement Otolaryngology EMR Source Type: blogs
Physician satisfaction in health systems
Yesterday I wrote this tweet – When will health systems start measuring physician satisfaction? Unhappy physicians = worse care, burnout and leaving the system.. Never have a received as many retweets. And this occurred on a Sunday evening.
I was merely channeling this article – From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Requires Care of the Provider. My tweet was actually an homage to that article.
Too often I hear about health systems restructure, often using “consultants”, in a way that frustrates the physician workforce. In 2014, rather than privately owned small practices, most phys...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - November 24, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Glory days: Is a golden age of medicine on our doorstep?
The practice of medicine is changing faster than anyone can keep pace with. As a hospital physician at a relatively early stage of my career, I’d say that a sizeable number of physicians that I work with are towards the latter end of the spectrum.
I find that these doctors, typically over the age of 50, are struggling the most to keep up with the changes occurring around them. I have the greatest respect and admiration for these colleagues and always learn a lot from them on a daily basis. I feel their pain as they talk to me about issues such as increasing bureaucratic barriers between them and their patients, the encro...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 10, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Suneel Dhand, MD Tags: Physician Health reform Hospital Source Type: blogs
Is Meaningful Use working and what can innovators do to help with EHR adoption?
Earlier this year NueMD created a nice looking Meaningful Use Infographic — asking the question whether MU was helping or hurting EHR Adoption. I loved the summary but I wanted to dig in a little further so I asked Dr. William Rusnak, a resident physician in radiology and a healthcare IT writer for NueMD, to tell us what that infographic meant for innovators and folks building solutions. Here’s what Dr. Rusnak said:
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched their Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs, coined “Meaningful Use” (MU) back in January 2011, the main goal was ...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - November 9, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: EHR Meaningful Use EHR adoption Electronic health record Featured Source Type: blogs
Small practices aren’t dead yet. Some are even thriving.
When I was in high school, a national hardware retailer opened a new franchise down the street from the mom-and-pop hardware store that had served my neighborhood for many years. Since the new store had the advantage of larger volumes and lower costs, it seemed to be only a matter of time before it drove its smaller competitor out of business, the way that big bookstore chains and fast-food restaurants had already vanquished theirs.
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 29, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Kenneth Lin, MD Tags: Policy Primary care Source Type: blogs
"Value-based care: Bad for doctors, bad for patients?"
Dalai's note: Here is another piece cross published from KevinMD.com. I have a huge level of antipathy toward "Value-Based" reimbursement. From the beginning, I smelled a rat. How could we in radiology in particular prove the "value" of what we do in a manner that would convince those who hold the purse strings that we should actually be paid for our efforts? If, for example, we tell the ER doc that his order for a CT is inappropriate, we save the system money, and risk a lawsuit. If we let it go through, and it is negative as expected, we are dinged for charging the system for something that didn't produce "value". ...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - September 25, 2014 Category: Radiologists Source Type: blogs
The study you never heard of: Small practices aren’t dead yet
According to a new Commonwealth Fund sponsored study published in Health Affairs, “Small Primary Care Physician Practices Have Low Rates Of Preventable Hospital Admissions.” The study of over one thousand practices of various sizes and ownerships, conducted by some of the most respected names in health care, found that the smallest independent primary care practices, that are physician owned, provide better care at lower overall cost. Considering the current, and rather belligerent, advocacy and policy efforts to eradicate small independent medical practice, and the massive move of physicians from private practice to ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 5, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Margalit Gur-Arie Tags: Policy Primary care Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs Web First: Small Medical Practices Had Fewer Preventable Hospital Admissions
This study, which used data from the National Study of Small and Medium-Sized Physician Practices (NSSMPP) and surveyed 1,745 physician practices between July 2007 and March 2009, is believed to be the first of its kind in the United States. The study sample was limited to practices where at least 60 percent of the physicians were primary care providers, cardiologists, endocrinologists, and pulmonologists.
Authors Lawrence Casalino, Michael Pesko, Andrew Ryan, Jayme Mendelsohn, Kennon Copeland, Patricia Pamela Ramsay, Xuming Sun, Diane Rittenhouse, and Stephen Shortell identified physician specialties through the use of...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 14, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: All Categories Hospitals Physicians Prevention 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
Clinical Care Systems for Small Practices: A Market Opportunity
By JEROME CARTER, MD According to Ben Franklin, John Adams, or someone else (I could not find a reliable source), “Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.” This bodes well for clinical care software because the number of complaints about current EHR systems grows louder each day. We know the problems: poor usability, lack of […] (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 18, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: THCB Clinical practice HIT Sales Small practices software Source Type: blogs
Guest Article: What EHR buyers and health IT vendors can learn from the Nashville market
Zach Watson over at Technology Advice.com wrote a nice piece on EHR Trends in Nashville. I’m not a big fan of “trends” articles because trends aren’t that important, the implications of those trends and how to operationalize the implications are most important. I enjoyed Zach’s article so I asked him to tell us what those trends mean for EHR buyers and health IT vendors writ large. Here’s what Zach said:
Our study of office-based physicians across the city of Nashville to gain insight into which EHR systems they were using, as well as how pleased they were with their systems revealed...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - July 6, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Cardiology EHR Selection Checklist for Small Practices
Software developers have been working hard the past couple of years to be ready for the heightened interest in EMR/EHR systems. The initial focus was on "generic" systems that could work in various practices. Basic functionality isn't always enough to impress medical offices – especially medical specialists such as cardiologists. The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, a nonprofit group that vets EHR systems for compliance with performance standards, has also noted that a one-size-fits-all approach to electronic health records does medical practices a disservice.
Knowing what features you need and...
Source: EMR EHR Blog for Physicians - June 6, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Alok Prasad Source Type: blogs
