Tip # 11 – Securing Your Doctor’s Smartphone For HIPAA Compliance 91% of mobile devices are within owners’ reach 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This figure includes physicians and other healthcare practitioners, as well as patients. The nature of the job, most physicians want to be acc...

Did you know that in some form the facsimile, or fax, has been around for 175 years? It’s true. But it’s also true that the time has arrived for document faxing to be updated in order to catch up with electronic medical records. Although faxing in 1842 wasn’t in the form that the modern practi...

Hack #8 – Effectively Managing Underpayments No doubt your practice has endured its share of claim underpayments. Thirty percent of claims are denied or ignored on first submission, and 60% of those claims are never resubmitted, according to a 2013 Healthcare Business Management Association ar...

Telemedicine Creates Its Own Workflow Challenges Currently, 31% of healthcare organizations use video-based telemedicine services, and 34% offer remote patient monitoring, according to a recent KPMG survey conducted by HIMSS Analytics. Demand for telemedicine services varies by region, specialty, an...

Tip # 12 – Restrict Access To Your Practice Management Software Today’s leading practice management, electronic health record, and patient scheduling software is cloud-based, accessible from internet web browser. The convenience and reliability of these solutions are unmatched—not to menti...