Transparency helps you build trust with your patients. Transparency is important, and the Sunshine Act helps keep health care professionals and those who manufacture drugs, medical devices, and other medical supplies transparent in their interactions with each other. As medical office staff, your role is to run your practice in a manner that complies with

Older patients have unique medical and scheduling needs. Even if you don’t specialize in geriatric medicine, you have older patients in your practice. Some of them may have been with you for years. As your patients age, chronic and acute health conditions can emerge. As medical staff, your job is to stay on top of

Practice management software helps you focus on your patients’ needs. Is communication about billing concerns and inaccurate patient information an issue in your practice? Practice management software can help you smooth out your staff communication and improve your patient care. Good Administration is Key to Good Patient Care When you’re caring for others, you have

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

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

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

But perhaps the most dangerous occurrence at sea is a leak so slow that it’s not noticed until a significant amount of water has entered the vessel. This can hold relevant for a medical practice.  Major conflicts and crises get dealt with immediately while slow, persistent revenue leaks go unplugged. Two things are needed to

  EHR’s have come the distance since they were introduced. REVENUE CYCLE MANAGEMENT At this point, EHRs are about much more than how encounters are recorded. If you’re looking for a smoking gun, think revenue management. Without a fully unified practice-wide system, you’re in danger of failing to create the type of efficiencies and revenue

When it comes to medical technology, many physicians are adopting a new EHR system or have adopted more than one EHR system over the last decade. By understanding the basics of how an EHR system works, it is easier to determine if it is appropriate for your medical practice and how it can be applied