Highlights Avoid Meaningful Use penalty; start Meaningful Use program by July 1, 2014 Deadline to attest for 90-day reporting period ends on October 1, 2014 Any attestation that follows October 2014 will have a reporting period of 1 year rather than 90 days CMS allows for hardship exceptions until July 1, 2015 Only selected providers Read more…
Best Practices in Preparing for Meaningful Use
practice can be a daunting task. If done properly, it can change the way your practice works – for the better. However, like most modern technologies, it comes with various challenges. While facing the inevitable changes the implementation of EHR will bring, one of the issues that practices need to resolve is to keep all Read more…
Clearing the Air around ‘Cloud EHR’
While many physicians are already using Cloud services, there are some who are still uncertain, and are victims of the erroneous and outdated perceptions about how the Cloud works and what it’s all about. Some people are hesitant, when it comes to sending important data to the Cloud, because they don’t feel that they’re in Read more…
Best Practices for Switching Your EHR for Small practices
As a health IT consultant, I have come across a number of Practices who made the jump to Electronic Health Records without taking into consideration the following factors: Practice Specialty Size Workflow The key factors behind their decisions are: Price: many choosing to jump on the free EHR bandwagon with little importance given to product Read more…
Enhancing Patient Experience through Analytics
The claims and billing data of healthcare providers for the Medicare Program, after being kept behind closed doors for around 35 years, was recently made accessible to the public in the second week of 2014, excluding patient data due to the patients’ right to privacy. The big data includes care provider information, their specialties, procedures Read more…
Usability Redefined: CureMD EHR version 10g
How many of you out there find EHRs difficult to use and un-adaptive to your daily workflow? How many practice managers have given up on their physicians transitioning to electronic systems because they do not make any sense? How many of you have reconciled with the idea of bearing government penalties in 2015 because there Read more…
CureMD, Voted as the Best Cardiology EHR
Black Book, a highly objective and credible technology market research company, has named its elite group of EHR vendors from over 600 EHR Software companies through a poll that consisted of more than 22,000 active EHR users. CureMD has been named as the No.1 EHR vendor in Ambulatory Cardiology in 2014, under the category of ‘Medical Read more…
What Orthopedic surgeons need from Health IT software?
There was a time when specialists were not in demand, and visiting a general physician used to be sufficient to address all of your health problems. However, as the healthcare industry evolved, the need for specialists increased and now, in addition to their general physician almost everyone has a specialist they prefer consulting. Every specialist Read more…
I.T Security in Healthcare
Data breaches have been on the rise ever since the inception of the HITECH Act. Organizations in the past have been required to be transparent about any breaches, such as unwarranted disclosures of confidential patient health information. Credible research from a leading information security group has revealed that the year 2014 may be the worst Read more…
Surviving in the Modern Healthcare Arena
The advent of modern healthcare technologies has revolutionized how care providers used to perform their duties. The emergence of tools such as Electronic Health Records (EHR) has minimized the usage of paper. Previously, care providers needed to interact with people to get things done. They needed paper for administrative tasks and relied on referrals. Experts Read more…