The Smart Medical Practice

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

As medical practices continue to grow, more and more physicians are finding the need to employ physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs). Hospitals are following the trend and adding non-physician providers to their staff. The need to efficiently provide care to more patients in a day requires more than running an advertisement and hiring

Physicians are not normally the segment of the population that comes to mind when one thinks of filing fraudulent tax returns. Filers of bogus tax returns aim to defraud the federal government out of millions of dollars. The Culprit Uncovered? While no one theory has been proven as the reason for this spike in fraudulently

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

Medical office personnel know it is stealing to take home paper, ink cartridges or other supplies from the office. Unfortunately, the employees often do not consider it stealing from the medical practice when they spend work time making personal telephone calls, texting, checking their email, Facebook account or using in other social media. Dr. Joseph

Perhaps the most dangerous occurrence at sea is a leak that’s not noticed until a significant amount of water enters the vessel.  This analogy can hold relevance for a medical practice.  Major conflicts and crises get dealt with immediately while slow, persistent revenue leaks go unplugged. Two things are needed to rectify the situation and get