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Seven Myths About Electronic Health Records
- Tuesday, 31 May 2011
- Practice Management
- Written by Guest user
Guest columnist Brian O’Neill is president and CEO of Office Ally, which offers providers a full complement of revenue cycle management services, including a patient portal, electronic health records, a practice management system, a clearinghouse and a billing service.
One of the greatest professional challenges and business decisions physicians find themselves confronting today is the conversion of their office and systems to electronic health records (EHRs). While once found only in the most technologically savvy physician offices and viewed by many as a ‘nice to have’ luxury, EHRs are quickly becoming a ‘need to have’ in medical offices across the country. And with good reason!
Read more...Top iPhone & iPad Devices for Physicians
- Tuesday, 17 May 2011
- Practice Management
- Written by Cynthia Atoji
Physicians often are portrayed as latter-day Luddites. However, that’s an urban myth, according to Peter Henderson of PatientKeeper, a Boston-based health information system provider.
Read more...Make Next April 15th Less Painful: 3 Tax-Saving Ideas
- Tuesday, 10 May 2011
- Practice Management
- Written by Guest user
This is a guest column written by David B. Mandell, a principal of the financial consulting firm O’Dell Jarvis Mandell LLC and Carole Foos, who works as a CPA and tax consultant at the firm.
For many of you, April 15th (or April 18th in 2011) is a painful day. That’s because it’s that day you realize you spend between 40% and 50% your working hours for the year laboring for the IRS and your state when you consider income, capital gains, Medicare, self-employment and other taxes.
Read more...Avoid the Most Common Doctor Financial Error
- Friday, 06 May 2011
- Practice Management
- Written by David B. Mandell
As authors of 4 books for physicians, including our latest, For Doctors Only: A Guide to Working Less & Building More (link to free ebook downloard or reduce price book order form), we have consulted with thousands of doctors of all specialties during the last decade. From this experience, we have become intimately familiar with the mistakes physicians make when working with their CPAs, attorneys, and other financial advisors. Whether it is in the area of tax, asset protection, retirement planning, or other areas, the #1 problem is always the same – a failure of the doctor to find, work with and continue to evaluate their financial/legal/tax advisors.
Read more...Why Some Physicians Are Slow to Switch to EHRs
- Monday, 11 April 2011
- Practice Management
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
While the deadline for electronic record adoption is looming, some physicians remain hesitant. That’s because they view the conversion process as an expensive, time consuming, and often-overwhelming process.
Read more...How the AMA is Using Amagine to Simplify Health IT
- Monday, 04 April 2011
- Practice Management
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
In an effort to reduce the anxiety and costs associated with the implementation of health IT, the American Medical Association has launched Amagine.
Read more...Understanding Online Physician Rating Sites
- Tuesday, 15 March 2011
- Practice Management
- Written by Cynthia Atoji
As if Facebook and Twitter and other social media don’t offer enough cyber-information overload, the newest player in the age of social networking is doctor and hospital rating sites. More than 30 such rate-your-doctor Websites exist today, including Healthgrades.com and RateMDs.com, as well as more general consumer guides such as Angielist.com – more known for rating plumbers than clinicians – and Yelp.com.
Read more...How to Find Your Footing in Social Media
- Monday, 21 February 2011
- Practice Management
- Written by Cynthia Atoji
As the HIMSS11 conference opened this past Sunday in Orlando, Fla., “meaningful use” of health IT were the buzzwords. So were the implementation of RFID technologies and the HIPAA conversion to the new 5010 standard. Also at the top of the agenda were the application of social technologies in healthcare and maximization of network activities.
Read more...The Central or Non-Central Question: Identifying Patients Statewide
- Tuesday, 15 February 2011
- Practice Management
- Written by Dr. Scott Schumacher and Lorraine Fernandes
This guest column is special to The Progressive Physician. The authors are Dr. Scott Schumacher and Lorraine Fernandes of Initiate, an IBM Company. Schumacher is Chief Scientist and Fernandes is Health Ambassador.
Determining the best way to identify patients statewide or nationally is one of the hottest topics of debate within today’s health IT community.
Read more...Meaningful IT Use Offers Sizable Financial Incentives
- Tuesday, 01 February 2011
- Practice Management
- Written by Michele Jones
Guest contributor Michele Jones is the director of marketing for MedInformatix Inc., Los Angeles. MedInformatix is a national provider of fully integrated Electronic Health Records.
Malpractice insurance costs. Uncertainties about Obamacare’s full impact. The ever-present specter of increased regulation...
Amid these and other issues and concerns beguiling physicians and practices lies the highly positive financial impact of the recently activated Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Care Provisions of The Federal Government’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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