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According to the American Medical Association (AMA) there are 15 questions in total to ask before agreeing to purchase an EHR/EMR.  We will cover the top five. Have you defined your needs? You will need to complete a needs assessment or an evaluation of what exact goals you will... Read More

It is not uncommon if you have collected your incentive money for your Stage 1 attestation and are now evaluating your EHR and wondering if it will have the capability to help you attest for Stage 2.  Many practices are evaluating and trying to decide if they want to stay in the... Read More

As multitudes of practices rushed to attest for MU, it was not as simple as originally thought it would be. There was push back from several users on the workflow changes that had to happen to implement capturing the required data to be submitted. This frustration stemmed from... Read More

An EHR/EMR in conjunction with the right Practice Management (PM) software can make your billing more efficient.  Of course for the most effective use of the billing component, you will need to do your pre-work and make sure the PM is set up with the appropriate allowable... Read More

Most of the certified EHRs/EMRs have helped improve the basic need of preventive health for women and men. Such as making sure mammograms, prostate screenings, cholesterol, diabetes testing and bone density testing is more on time, because they are typically performed on a... Read More

We now see this situation over and over again.  Single practice provider, usually a specialty practice, provider in their 50’s and having practiced successfully for 25-30 years now find themselves in danger of losing their practice.  Why?  There are numerous... Read More

A successful customized training program that will benefit your company as well as the employees and your patients is critical to the success of any new software implementation. This is especially true for EHRs and modules of the EHR. Step 1. Perform a Training Requirements... Read More

Stage 1: The main focus or objective was Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption and electronically capturing health information in a standardized format. Also, to use that information for better care coordination and to initiate the reporting of clinical quality measures and... Read More

With all the financial worries and woes, it is clear that acquiring and/or switching Electronic Health Record (EHR) software has become the buzz word of 2013.  I say switching because of the high number of practices not satisfied with either the performance of the current EHR or... Read More

I just read a pretty interesting article called…..”Goodbye paper…Hello EHR”  And, having been a part of an EHR implementation, I can tell you that paper just does not magically disappear.  Expectations need to be clearly laid out when converting from paper... Read More