Healthcare IT vendors are driving innovation in the industry through constant research, updates and need-based solutions. Over the years, the industry has seen rapid shift from the otherwise manual and cumbersome process of managing a practice to having completely automated workflows where coordinated healthcare delivery is the main objective. An ever-growing industry, healthcare, has seen Read more…
How does an EHR help in practice workflows?
An Electronic Health Record (EHR) system helps a practice in more than one way. From improving its workflows, cash flow, flow of patients and achieving Meaningful Use, to saving time and meeting regulatory requirements, an EHR system does a lot. And that’s not all, there are many other features of an EHR which help a Read more…
The Right EMR – Profitable Investment
The government has deployed quality measures in the form of meaningful use objectives, in a bid to improve overall health infrastructure and patient care, creating opportunity to yield monetary benefits. Although highly influential in promoting usage of Electronic Medical Records, Meaningful Use has not been the main driving force before behind EMR adoption, as some Read more…
What causes physicians to change EHRs?
Black Book Rankings survey listed 2013 as the “year of the great EHR vendor switch”. To a large extent, this has proven true as its latest research finds 92% practices dissatisfied with their current EHR systems. Being clunky, difficult to use, not compliant with 2014 regulations and unable to improve practice workflows are just some Read more…
New study finds physicians can improve workflow with HIT
A recent Johns Hopkins study has found that physicians can see more patients and reduce their workload if they started using Health Information Technology (HIT) based solutions. This study, which was conducted in collaboration with the Commonwealth Fund, underscores the impact of electronic health applications on physician services, and suggests that physician shortage might not Read more…
Does patient satisfaction mean anything to physicians?
The night was clement, the ambience tranquil, but the room bore a murky sheet of the dark hollow that did not aptly depict the feeble condition of the patient turning in bed. A voice, a sudden outcry of directed inquiry, broke the ominous silence that had engulfed the two people in that room, “Are you Read more…
EMR Support – The Overlooked Qualities
Thanks to user feedback which resulted in the exponential improvement in quality, EMR has come a long way from being the simple tool to record and document patient profiles and data. The dynamics of the EMR market are constantly changing, leading to the evolution of the EMR software into a well-rounded solution that caters to the whole Read more…
How Secure is Your EMR?
Lauded for the effectiveness in capturing and the dissemination of data, EMRs have improved healthcare productivity with higher outputs as initial benefits to the overall industry. Having tremendous potential, EMR’s still have a long way to go when it comes to securing and protecting sensitive patient health information. There is an increasing concern for security Read more…
Practice Management – The Missing Link in an EMR Package
Practice Management software deals with the administrative workflows of the whole practice. This typically includes features such as scheduling appointments, documenting patient demographics and electronic medical billing. Practice Management software improves efficiency by eliminating paper while streamlining practice workflow, task and resource allocation for enhanced efficiencies at the workplace. Physicians have been positive towards implementing practice Read more…
5 Features of a Patient-Centered EHR
It is of crucial importance that Electronic Health Record (EHR) software are designed in a way that they focus on patient care and improve the quality of services delivered. It has also become one of the regulatory requirements that physicians and practices must be able to show that they are doing all they can to Read more…