5 ways to increase your EMR efficiency

Tech
October 28, 2014

One of the major reasons that health care providers resist implementing an electronic medical record (EMR) system is the belief that using it will decrease provider productivity, reducing the number of patients they can see and therefore reducing practice revenue.

However, an EMR that is designed around a streamlined workflow can enable providers to work faster and more efficiently. Having an EHR and vendor that can give you ongoing visibility and …

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5 ways to increase your EMR efficiency

How to prepare yourself for the ICD-10 era

Policy
July 6, 2014

A stark reality of the past year has been the ever-looming ICD-10 transition, which ultimately got punted on by the federal government to October 2015.

With the deadline to make the transition to ICD-10 now more than a year away instead of six months (and who knows if that will even be the case next summer), I’d still wager that many health systems are working to keep their transitions on track …

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How to prepare yourself for the ICD-10 era

Why ICD-10 concerns me deeply

Tech
March 7, 2014

If you’re a practicing provider, chances are you still feel some anxiety about several issues related to the ICD-10 transition that are critical for maintaining the health of your practice. These probably include reimbursement, documentation workflows, potential audits, and claims denial.

As a family medicine provider, what I hope to see develop is the opportunity for providers to encourage payers to be more transparent about topics like the level of coding …

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Why ICD-10 concerns me deeply