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…
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…