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Audit Logs, HIPAA, and Record Retention-Oh, My

In an effort to stay current, your office makes technology changes throughout the year. The only difficulty with these changes is remembering that each one has the potential to affect your compliance with HIPAA record retention laws. HIPAA itself does not require practices to keep patient medical records for any set period. However, most states

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Medical Billing Software-Beyond Codes and Claims
Practice Management

Medical Billing Software-Beyond Codes and Claims

Physicians know medical billing software is about much more than creating a bill. Yes, it’s important to create an accurate bill that includes all aspects of the patient visit with the correct codes—so it gets paid quickly. But today’s practices need more than help selecting codes and creating bills. They need a billing system that

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Can Your Scheduling Software Boost Your Bottom Line?

They say you can’t be all things to all people, but scheduling software has to be—if it’s going to succeed in a medical practice. For starters, it has to work for patients, providers, and schedulers. Ideally, it also works for a practice’s bottom line, helping track patient balances, reducing missed appointments, and allowing double bookings

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Practice Management

5 Ways to Reduce Appointment Scheduling Conflicts

Advanced appointment scheduling software can reduce scheduling conflicts, improve patient satisfaction, and increase office revenue. We are humans, and humans make mistakes, especially where appointment scheduling is concerned. When we rely on sticky notes, passing messages from one person to another, and hoping to reconcile schedules, something is bound to slip through the cracks. Medical

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Appointment Scheduling Software

Compare & Review 2019 #1 Appointment Scheduling Software Scheduling is the fuel for your medical practice’s revenue engine. Picking the right appointment scheduling software – the right “octane and fuel type” is a leverage point that cannot be overstated. Learn what to look for, strengths, advantages, and even weaknesses of office appointment scheduling software in

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Healthcare industry
Practice Management

Pick Lists: Use with Care

Pick lists can provide more accurate information during patient visits, which makes for more accurate diagnosis and prescription information in the EHR or practice management system. Also known as drop-down lists, these selections are ubiquitous features in EHRs and order entry systems. Pick lists are designed to save time and make care safer in all settings

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IT Health
Practice Management

Post-Pledge Interoperability – Update

To put it politely, there are still many opportunities for all healthcare players to more fully exchange information. In 2016, some of the largest healthcare systems and a variety of health IT companies agreed to sign the interoperability pledge. The pledge is one part of “A Way to Connect Health and Care for the Nation,”

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Concierge Medicine—At Your Service?

As healthcare organizations attempt to accommodate the ACA patient wave, it’s becoming more difficult for even longtime patients to see their physician for routine care. For many, getting a checkup can feel like being dropped into a “patient mill.” Physicians can’t provide optimal care in a 15-minute appointment, even for patients they’ve known for years.

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Patient portal
Practice Management

A Great Patient Portal is Only Half the Story

Why aren’t patients flocking to your portal? Some patients, for whatever reason, just plain will not sign on to your spiffy, modern-tastic patient portal. But they’re in the minority. If your portal is up and running, you’ll need to get the word out—more than once. You might also need to sell patients on the benefits

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