With the imminent implementation of Obamacare, every physician should start preparing to smoothly navigate the new changes it will bring. One of the major changes that will take place with the implementation of Obamacare is, lower payments and higher costs. However, if physicians prepare themselves in advance before the new Act is implemented, they should Read more…
Google Helpouts: The new avenue for healthcare
Search engine giant Google has rolled out yet another product as it aims to divulge into the healthcare industry. Named Google Helpouts, the service aims to provide virtual help to people in various fields, ranging from IT, engineering, art and music, cooking, education and health. Google had famously failed on its previous venture into the Read more…
How interoperable is Health IT in reality?
Interoperability, a term commonly used in the Healthcare sector, is the ability of various systems to meaningfully interact with each other. Important patient data, integration with labs, pharmacies, hospital networks, and many other entities in the Healthcare industry benefit from Interoperability. The Office of Standards and Interoperability (OSI) at the U.S. Department of Health and Read more…
Study shows physicians benefiting from EHR use
A recent Medical Economics study has found that physicians are getting used to Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, but still some progress needs to be made. One of the top EHR vendors in the market is CureMD. Click here to schedule a free demo with them. According to the data gathered, nearly 90% of the participating solo Read more…
BYOD: The emerging trend
Bring-your-own-device or BYOD, is a relatively new concept, where employees of a particular organization are allowed to bring their own devices to work, in order to access privileged company information and applications. According to estimates, nearly 75% of the employees in high growth markets, like the US, are using their own devices at work. The Read more…
Best practices for mobile text messaging in healthcare
Mobile healthcare is the new avenue for the healthcare IT industry. Be it patients, physicians, providers, payers or hospitals, everyone wants to have the ease of accessing their work through their smartphones or mobile devices. As such, the need to have better and state-of-the-art information technology to deal with mobile healthcare not only increases, but Read more…
Can EHRs do Everything?
The debate about whether Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are able to do everything for a practice or not, is a long one. It has long been argued by EHR vendors that their systems are fully equipped to handle almost all the challenges a practice faces, while on the other hand, physicians have been vocal Read more…
Buying an EHR? Ask the Vendor these Questions
Whether you are a practice, hospital, healthcare provider or an individual practitioner, chances are, you are already using an EHR system or looking to change your current one. As per some recent surveys, most of the current EHR users are dissatisfied with their systems. So you have decided that it is time to make a change and Read more…
How will ICD-10 affect your practice?
The new system for disease classification, known as ICD-10, is the biggest change on the horizon for the healthcare industry. It is going to replace the current, ICD-9 codes and will roughly add 40,000 new codes to the system. Practices, hospitals, healthcare centers will have to use these codes not only in their daily workflow, Read more…
How can physicians use social media to their benefit?
Social media has become the new platform where people from all walks of life are interacting and sharing their experiences. Be it the micro-blogging website, Twitter, the more interactive and engaging Facebook or even the video-sharing portal YouTube, there are millions of gigabytes of data being shared across some of the most famous social media Read more…