August 2014 - PracticeSuite

Secure Text Messaging For Your Medical Practice

Posted on August 25, 2014 By Michael Sculley

Text messaging can simplify communication with patients in a medical practice; however, it is also risky if the doctor and staff members do not take measures to improve security. As a doctor or medical staff member, security plays a key role in patient confidentiality and privacy. Fortunately, there...

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A Growing Number of Physicians Opt out of Meaningful Use

Posted on August 20, 2014 By Michael Sculley

A small but growing group of physicians is saying “no” to meaningful use (MU) attestation. This number includes six percent of the physicians who have met the requirements in prior years and an additional 16 percent who do not plan to attest, according to a Medscape report. They are look...

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Selling Your Medical Practice? Do These Things…

Posted on August 19, 2014 By Michael Sculley

Legal experts advice physicians to start preparing for the sale of their practice several years in advance. Careful planning ensures accurate valuations so that physicians are not compelled to sell their practice during unfavorable market trends. Retaining a team of professional appraisers, accounta...

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Next Generation Medical Practice Consulting with Google Glass

Posted on August 18, 2014 By Michael Sculley

Google Glass technology has already successfully bridged time and space to bring specialists together in the surgical suite and hospital training centers in the US and Europe. This spring Harvard Medical School initiated a test program for a new diagnostic app called Remedy that enables faster clini...

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Retaining the Best Physicians in Your Medical Practice

Posted on August 14, 2014 By Michael Sculley

One of the greatest challenges facing health care companies today, from the smallest private practice to the largest hospital, is how to retain quality physicians. No health organization wants to lose a good doctor. It not only takes time and effort to recruit a replacement, but the departing physic...

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Starting Over With a New EHR? Follow These Five Tips

Posted on August 14, 2014 By Michael Sculley

EHR systems continue to be controversial. Rather than EHR installations, these days industry expert and consultant Mark Anderson finds himself specializing in DE-INSTALLS –thousands of them to be precise. “It seem that almost 80% of practices that bought EHR systems over the last 2-3 years are...

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Bringing Telemedicine to Rural States

Posted on August 7, 2014 By Michael Sculley

South Dakota will use federal funding and state-of-the-art technology to reach out to people with drug and alcohol abuse problems who live in the most remote areas of the vast state. People living in rural and inaccessible areas frequently live too far from treatment centers, leaving this segment of...

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Stressed Docs – Manage Work-Life Balance in Your Medical Practice

Posted on August 5, 2014 By Michael Sculley

Physicians work more than most people realize. In fact, the time they spend helping others through their medical practice often leads to serious imbalances in their own lives. While it may be impossible to fully alleviate this difficulty, there are some steps that physicians can take to bring more e...

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Control Your Medical Practice With Practice Management Software

Posted on August 4, 2014 By Michael Sculley

We all like to feel like things are under control, especially when it comes to our business. When you’re running a physician practice, that’s a tall order. There are so many moving parts—from front office tasks like checking eligibility to tracking every part of the billing process to keeping ...

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Secure Text Messaging For Your Medical Practice

A Growing Number of Physicians Opt out of Meaningful Use

Selling Your Medical Practice? Do These Things…

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Bringing Telemedicine to Rural States

Stressed Docs – Manage Work-Life Balance in Your Medical Practice

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