Replacing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) software is a complex and time consuming process. One needs to manage the entire process starting with determining the exact requirements of your practice, to making sure that the new system does not give you more headaches. Change is never easy and most of the time, employees are apprehensive Read more…
Patient-Centric EHR Data: 4 Essential Characteristics
Over the last decade or so, Government investment in the healthcare sector has enabled more doctors and hospitals to shift to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) software, but it still remains a tough challenge. Many clinicians do not have access to usable data for a specific patient. Interoperability, the true objective of an EHR, can only Read more…
The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Healthcare
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) describe Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) as groups of doctors, physicians, nurses, support staff, hospitals and healthcare centers that voluntarily work together to benefit Medicare patients. ACOs are formed to provide timely and quality healthcare services to people who are aged 65 and above, and who are suffering Read more…
5 ICD-10 tips from large-scale practices
The deadline for implementation of ICD-10 codes is less than a year away. Healthcare practices are gearing themselves up for the change. However, while small and medium practices are still struggling to move to the new system, large healthcare practices and hospitals fully equipped with state-of-the-art technologies are already using the new system. They are Read more…
How EHR replacement might impact Meaningful Use achievement
According to Black Book Rankings Survey 2013, nearly 30% of all new Electronic Health Records (EHRs) purchases are done to replace old EHRs. This number is expected to go up by year-end as the CMS requirements for achieving of Meaningful Use Stage 2 are changing in 2014. At this point in time, nearly 92% of Read more…
The evolution of collaborated healthcare in the U.S
As a nation we’ve been enamored with Healthcare for almost a century, give or take. We first started to grasp the need for affordable healthcare during the 26th presidency of our great country with President Theodore Roosevelt in Office. We dabbled with the idea, we debated over the various effective ways in which affordable healthcare Read more…
EHR – Usability, functionality or price?
Buying or switching to new and better Electronic Health Record (EHR) software is never an easy task. Physicians are flooded with many vendors, most of them offering plenty of features. It is common for physicians, hospital networks and medical centers to be unable to make the right choice because they are drawn into buying an Read more…
The eternal quest for the perfect EHR
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become the new benchmark when it comes to delivering quality health care. Physicians, hospital networks and large healthcare centers are all using EHR software in order to help them speed up their workflows and improve efficiency. However, the EHR software market is yet to realize its full potential as doctors continue to Read more…
ICD-10 Offers More Than ICD-9
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have set October 1, 2014 as the deadline for the implementation of a new and more comprehensive International Classification of Diseases (ICD) set of codes, commonly referred to as ICD-10. It will replace the existing 30-year-old codes called ICD-9, which practices are currently using. Why? Because the ICD-9 Read more…
How the U.S. government Shutdown is Affecting Healthcare?
Owing to the heated debate in the Congress over enforcement of President Barack Obama’s healthcare bill, dubbed as Obamacare, for the first time in 17 years, the U.S. government has entered into a shutdown phase. According to estimates, nearly 700,000 federal employees would be hit by the shutdown. They will receive little or no payments Read more…