Take Control of Your Finances with AC Practice Management
Take Control of Your Finances with AC Practice Management Running a practice is time-consuming and requires you to juggle many tasks, from managing patients to working unpaid claims. But, are your financial practices efficient for streamlined day-to-day operations? Disorganized and bogged down systems can result in unpaid claims, decreased productivity
AI and Healthcare: Where We Are and Where We’re Headed
AI and Healthcare: Where We Are and Where We’re Headed AI has insinuated its way into the healthcare industry, perhaps without realizing it as well. In fact, Health IT Analytics predicted that “Artificial intelligence is poised to become a transformational force in healthcare,” affecting both providers and patients in profound
Chart Better with Electronic Health Records
Chart Better with Electronic Health Records The Case for Electronic Health Records While it does require a concentrated effort on the part of the entire practice team to successfully implement an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, many practices have already done so and are happy with the results. Some were
Adapting to Value-Based Care as a Small Practice
Adapting to Value-Based Care as a Small Practice With the transition to value-based care, independent practices are struggling to keep up with the change and avoid being absorbed by hospitals and larger networks. Physicians Practice cites “declining reimbursement rates, intense regulations, greater administrative demands, increasing compliance costs and changing payment
Why Outsourced Billing Might be the Best Choice for Your Practice
Why Outsourced Billing Might be the Best Choice for Your Practice If you try to manage billing on an in-house basis, chances are you run up against most of these obstacles on a daily basis: It takes a good deal of time and effort to train someone to handle the
Make the Switch and Eliminate Your EHR Inefficiencies
Make the Switch and Eliminate Your EHR Inefficiencies Electronic health records were created to improve efficiency within practices, allowing physicians to easily access patient data within a few clicks. They were seen as a useful tool to allow the physician to spend less time charting and more time focusing on
Knowledge Drop: Using Technology Tools to Improve Doctor Work-Life Balance
Some of the symptoms of physician burnout include: Negativity or indifference toward patient care. Increased likelihood of medical care errors. Heightened feelings of cynicism or apathy. Looking at patients as a disease or a condition, and not as a person. Feeling of being on a treadmill without accomplishing anything. Becoming
Knowledge Drop: What are the top billing errors for medical practices?
As a healthcare provider, your first priority is to provide outstanding patient care. That is the main reason you went into the medical field – to help others feel better. But, underlying that altruistic goal is the business side. With your education and experience, you are certainly entitled to be
Knowledge Drop: How to Understand, Engage, and Measure With Population Health
Historically, it’s been difficult to envision a practice’s population as a whole. The provider may intuitively feel that there are a lot of patients with diabetes, or it might seem like patients are just not engaging enough in their own healthcare. Little attention is really paid to the matter, however,
Knowledge Drop: Is the EHR the Beginning of A Bold New World in AI?
“For the healthcare industry, AI could prove to be a game-changer for everyone from the top pharmaceutical companies and hospital chains to the local medical practice. Virtually every aspect of the medical industry can be impacted by artificial intelligence, from robot-assisted surgeries to enhanced EHR performance.” The use of AI
Medscape EHR Report 2016: Physicians Rate Top EHRs, August 2016
MReal-time Ratings Snapshot, September 2016