Is Your Practice HIPAA Compliant?
Is Your Practice HIPAA Compliant? With considerations and requirements that can be somewhat overwhelming, achieving HIPAA compliance can be quite challenging for medical practices. Even for those well...
View ArticleHow Providers Can Reduce Stress When Using Health IT Software
Electronic health records are revolutionizing how medical professionals maintain patient information and communicate with one another. However, recent research reveals that using EHRs is increasing...
View ArticleAAOS and ChartLogic Shake Things Up in Vegas
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) will host its annual meeting from March 12 through March 16, 2019, in Las Vegas, Nevada. With a target audience of orthopaedic surgeons, attendees...
View ArticleIncreasing EHR Vendor Usability in Three Simple Steps
The advent of a technology-first approach to medical records arrived with the electronic health record (EHR). With all the benefits of the EHR, there are also challenges. EHR usability for your...
View ArticleThe Process of Revenue Cycle Management
A medical practices’ mission is to provide optimal patient care to ensure positive outcomes. However, bogged down in the minutia of patient insurance verification, co-pays, deductibles, code...
View ArticleSustaining 2017’s MIPS Success Through 2019
The performance of physicians is measured in several ways, and now they are being rewarded for tangible benchmarks. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is required by law to implement...
View ArticleWhat a New Look for HIPAA Means for Physicians
No industry looks the same after more than a quarter century of innovation and breakthroughs. Yet in the medical world, HIPAA, a bill passed by the U.S. Congress in 1996, has remained a key regulatory...
View ArticleTreating the Transparency Issue of Prescription Costs
Transparency is a word not often associated with the medical industry, particularly as it relates to the patient’s cost for medication. When prescribing drugs for their patients, providers typically...
View ArticleHospital EHRs vs. Ambulatory EHRs: What’s the Difference?
EHRs have revolutionized the way that the healthcare industry maintains and exchanges data, allowing for safer and more effective care for patients. With accurate, up-to-date information that’s easily...
View ArticleWhat Providers Need to Know About EHR Replacement
According to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, as of 2017, 86% of office-based physicians had an EHR system in place. But while most providers have adopted an...
View ArticleBest EHR Software: ChartLogic in Software Advice FrontRunners Report
In every industry, companies rely on vital software programs to increase and measure productivity, for internal and external communication, to perform accounting functions, for product lifecycle...
View ArticleThe Effect of Healthcare’s Digital Transformation on Orthopedics
Last week on Marketscale’s Healthcare Podcast, Daniel Litwin turned the spotlight onto the hardware and software of orthopedics and how the convergence of the two is transforming care in this field of...
View ArticleCMS Seeks to Improve Patients Over Paperwork Initiative 2019
Patients Over Paperwork, an initiative launched in Fall 2017, streamlines regulations to cut the “red tape” burdening the healthcare system which often hinders a clinician’s fundamental...
View ArticleWhat is an EHR (Electronic Health Record)?
What is an EHR / EHR System? EHRs (Electronic Health Records) help capture clinical encounters electronically, create secure, HIPPA-compliant, digitized patient records and a variety of other tasks...
View ArticleSix Strategies to Increase EHR Optimization & Usage
You’ve done your homework. You’ve spent countless hours comparing modules and features. You’ve researched the provider to ensure a collaborative and supportive fit. And you’ve finally selected an EHR...
View ArticleBoost Clinician Satisfaction with EHR Optimization
While technology is a helping hand to clinicians in modern healthcare, these professionals often struggle with documentation and Electronic Health Record (EHR) workflow challenges. For technology—and...
View ArticleEHRs Reduce Physician Burnout and Increase Physician Satisfaction
Many physicians may feel that maintaining Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is another implemented task that leads to increased provider burnout. However, research shows that just the opposite is true....
View ArticleProper Etiquette Influences Patient Experiences and Outcomes
When working in the healthcare environment, “sweating the small stuff” is just part of an ordinary day. But add to that declining reimbursements, increasing overhead, healthcare reform, office...
View ArticleIowa Specialty Surgeons Journey with ChartLogic EHR & RCM Services
Below is the journey of Iowa Specialty Seurgeons and their adoption of ChartLogic’s EHR and RCM Services over the years. 2016 Starting a PracticeThree years ago, general surgeons Paul Conte, M.D., and...
View ArticleHelping You Navigate CMS’s Proposed Rule for 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes regulations every year impacting the reimbursement of physicians under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). On July 29, 2019, the...
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