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
Knowledge Drop: Taking Your Clinical Documentation to the Next Level with Speech Recognition
“Voice recognition allows the provider to continue to use the time-efficient method of speaking over typing, yet still provides the benefits of instant viewing and access. The provider can immediately review the results of the charting session, correct any errors, and fill in any missing pieces without having to rely
Knowledge Drop: Go Beyond the Pain And Get to the Benefits of Using an EHR
EHRs are, at their simplest, digital versions of patients’ paper charts. But they can be so much more than that, especially when operating at maximum strength. Some of the early adapters are finding their old EHR system is not capable of keeping up with their current-day requirements, and are actually
Knowledge Drop: Why Chronic Care Management is Important for your Practice
The government is changing the way it provides reimbursement for care of patients with chronic conditions. Read this Knowledge Drop to learn about the program and how your practice can improve patient care using a Chronic Care Management tool. If you’d like to schedule a consultation to learn more about
Medscape EHR Report 2016: Physicians Rate Top EHRs, August 2016
MReal-time Ratings Snapshot, September 2016