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…
What are HIT vendors doing for Healthcare advancement?
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…