As you’re searching for the perfect electronic medical record (EMR) to fulfill either your office’s needs or simply trying to achieve meaningful use standards, you have many aspects of your business and the potential EMR to consider. You can use … Read More
Continued/Part III: Question #3: Am I facilitating my practice with the new technology or does it force me to restructure my time-tested operations to fit it? Answering this question requires that you have already answered other; this transformation will be … Read More
Continued/Part II: Question #2: How do I implement an EMR, and should I delegate this process to someone else? Some related questions in determining how your practice comes to implement an EMR are: should we do it in stages or … Read More
Introduction Technology. We love it when it works for us–and hate it when it doesn’t. In the world of healthcare, the hottest tech buzzword has been the big ‘EMR’, coupled of course with ‘Meaningful Use.’ And this update is not-likely … Read More
In his article from March 30, 2011 “Meaningful Use Authority maps the Path to Stage Two in Speech to Health IT Summit” Frank Irving outlines Dr. Tang’s speech addressing the timeline for qualifying for ARRA Medicare/Medicaid payments. In short, there … Read More
As time progresses and the mandatory implementation of Stage 2 of Meaningful Use criteria looms closer, many physicians are still trying to grasp what exactly Meaningful Use is, and how to fully comply with Stage One. A bit of history … Read More
In private practices, doctors have the distracting and unfortunate need to understand the underlying operating practices of their business model. Unfortunately, most do not—at least to an adequate degree. Accounting practices make this even more difficult by obscuring the ‘lifeblood’—if … Read More
Congratulations on your successes in 2010. We have weathered multiple threats of Medicare SGR reduction, been dizzied by EMR rhetoric, and endured the politics of health reform. Regardless of these external factors, you continued to provide great care and drive … Read More