Your answer to workflow woes, physician burnout, better ROI on EHR investments, and increased accuracy.
Extract And Your DMS Are A Match Made In EMR Heaven
The Pros and Cons of Value Based Systems
Are Your Patients Completing Their Own Medical Forms?
Stop Reviewing All Your Faxes!
MACRA Rule Changes for 2018 Data
In the beginning of November, the CMS (The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) finalized their MACRA rules for reporting on data in 2018. The changes to these rules are affecting healthcare organizations across the nation as they are scrambling to get prepared. With less than 60 days til the first of 2018, healthcare clinics and practices are ensuring they have what they need for accurate reporting measurements.
The centralized faxing/scanning conundrum
The centralized vs. de-centralized faxing conundrum seems to be a topic with every healthcare organization we encounter.
In theory, centralizing your incoming documents seems like a grand idea. You have a core group of people who do things consistently, know the documents and are managed by a single department.
Help Your Clinicians Find What They Need in the EMR
What’s So New About CHR?
The leading voices in healthcare are talking about the next big thing on the horizon. That would be CHR (Comprehensive Health Record). But what about the unfinished business that still exists for healthcare records? How do you incorporate the data from incoming external documents that bog down clinics and hospitals? This data comes from faxes, paper, and scanning workflows.
Making Your ‘EHR' More ‘E’
For many years, healthcare organizations all over the country have been transitioning from paper charts to electronic health records. From large hospitals to small clinics, almost everyone has adopted an EHR system to manage the care of their patient population. The shift to an electronic record comes with a number of benefits: increased speed of diagnosis, easier collaboration among care teams, better trending of vitals and test results. One big misconception of this transition is that paper charts and documents are a thing of the past and are no longer a concern.
CMS Innovations: Improvement or Same old, Same old?
On Wednesday, September 20, the CMS published an RFI requesting feedback "on a new direction to promote patient-centered care and test market-driven reforms that empower beneficiaries as consumers, provide price transparency, increase choices and competition to drive quality, reduce costs, and improve outcomes." Wait. That sounds very familiar, doesn't it? Isn't this what the Affordable Care Act, Meaningful Use, PQRS, MIPS, and a number of other initiatives have tried (or are still trying) to accomplish?
AHIMA Brings Fresh Healthcare Innovation
Is Your Doctor Too Busy For You?
Extract and the Chinese Parable
Top 5 Telemedicine Solutions Bringing Patients and Doctors Closer
Patients feel that they aren’t getting quality care from their physicians. They are being incorrectly diagnosed because they simply aren’t getting more than 15-minutes with their physicians. Their questions aren’t being answered, but instead being directed towards nurses. Patients are feeling more and more like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, on a journey to the Emerald City to find the Wizard and ask the for help.