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…
EMR Software
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…