The Smart Medical Practice

Good revenue cycle management allows you to focus on what’s most important in your practice. Are you in control of your revenue cycle? Your practice depends on having a good plan in place for ongoing revenue cycle management. Dropped billing opportunities and billing errors all impact the revenue of your practice. If your revenue cycle

When you’re running a medical practice, your first concern is for your patients. However, the business side of your practice is also important. With a smooth system for payments, your staff will have more time to focus on customer service, and you’ll be able to run your practice with the confidence that you have a

Everyone values their privacy, and nowhere is privacy more important than in the case of your personal medical records. In this age of electronic data collection and storage, patients can feel insecure about the safety of their personal health information. This is why the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) exists. Your practice needs

Your patients’ health is important. Your patients’ privacy is equally important. Medical clients need to know that their medical information is being stored securely. Cloud based storage of electronic health records can help you maintain your data in a place where it is secure yet easy for you and your patients to access. What is

Swamped with paperwork? If your office is overwhelmed by the logistics of medical billing, try a free medical billing software, that claims to be better than the rest, and see if you can smooth out your system. User-friendly and affordable billing software helps your office become accurate, profitable, and well-organized. What should you look for

Your medical practice staff is your brain trust. They know how to interact with your patients and they know how to manage the systems that make your office run smoothly. When a staff member leaves, this can put a big hole into your ability to function as a practice. The use of medical billing software

Interoperability in healthcare is the ability of devices, software, and information systems to connect within or outside the boundaries of organizations to exchange and access patient data. The different level of operability include foundational, structural, semantic, and organizational.  Interoperability can enhance patient experience, reduce medical error rates, and lower healthcare costs, among other benefits. Despite

Evidence is mounting that giving patients access to EHRs improves their accuracy and can improve the doctor-patient relationship. Research continues to show that the patient portal is an integral part of any practitioner’s system as they work to improve patient care. As far back as 2003, researchers at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Time and time again, EHR has continues to remain the winner for practitioners.  Despite adoption concerns with doctors over seamless implementation, electronic health records give doctors the ability to achieve positive returns on investment with the money they have put into EHR. The primary reason:  was an increase in the number of patients each clinician could

Almost every medical professional in private practice today has a business website, but very few have a HIPAA compliant patient portal? It is important to create a patient portal that allows patients to interact with your practice, pay open patient balances, purchase supplements and supplies, schedule appointments with your office, request lab results, ask questions