The Ambulatory EHR Market with Raul Villar, Jr. CEO of AdvancedMD
The ambulatory EHR market is near to my heart since that’s where I started when I entered this world of healthcare IT. My first job was implementing an EHR in a small ambulatory practice. As regular...
View ArticlePatient Directed Health Data Exchange on The Blockchain
I’ve long been friends with Dr. Tom Giannulli who most of you will probably have known as the CMO of Kareo. I first met Dr. Tom back when he created what I would call the first iPad optimized EHR...
View Article2019 CPT Codes To Cover Remote Monitoring And Digital Care Coordination
The American Medical Association has released CPT code set changes 2019, and among them are some new options specific to digital health practices. While providing such codes is a no-brainer — and if...
View ArticleIt’s Time To Work Together On Technology Research
Bloggers like myself see a lot of data on the uptake of emerging technologies. My biggest sources are market research firms, which typically provide the 10,000-foot view of the technology landscape and...
View ArticleDon’t Be The Last Practice To “Get” Digital Health
Physicians, are you savvy about the digital health technologies your patients use? Do you make it easy for them to interact with you digitally and share the health data they generate? If not, you need...
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EHR Error Messages – Fun Friday
Sometimes these Fun Friday series of humorous blog posts hit a little too close to home. I’m pretty sure this week’s post will feel a little too personal for many readers. However, when I saw it, I...
View ArticleA Vote In Favor Of Using Scribes
Over the past few years, using scribes to complete medical documentation in EHRs has gotten mixed reviews. Some analyses have found that scribe services were too expensive to justify the investment,...
View ArticlePractice’s EMR Implementation Drove Up Costs For Six Months
Everyone knows that providers incur EMR-related costs until well after it is implemented. According to a new study, in fact, one medical incurred higher costs for six months after its implementation....
View ArticleBetter Performing Practices Invest in Communications
MGMA’s Winning Strategies From Top Medial Groups report identifies better-performing practices have invested in: (1) New/upgraded EHRs; (2) Electronic communication systems; and (3) Upgraded coding and...
View ArticleA Next Step For Personalized Medicine? Vendor Brings Genomics To Ambulatory EHR
Most physicians have some sense of the value personalized medicine can bring to their practice, but I doubt that many have ready access to the tools they’d need to harness its power. In an effort to...
View ArticleQuality Payment Program Tops List Of Regulatory Burdens On Medical Practices
A new survey by the Medical Group Management Association has found that meeting the demands of the Medicare Quality Payment Program tops the list of regulatory burdens named by respondents in medical...
View ArticleStanford Offers 10-Year Vision For EHRs
Despite many efforts to improve EHRs, few physicians see them as adding value to the practice. Sadly, it’s little surprise given that many vendors don’t worry much about what physicians want, focusing...
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Lost EMR Data
More and more EMR data is being lost and this trend is just beginning. This is particularly true in the ambulatory space where ambulatory medical practices are being bought up left and right by health...
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2019 MACRA Final Rule Overview
The following is a guest blog post by Joy Rios, Health IT Consultant at Chirpy Bird. It happened right on time this year. The 2019 MACRA Final Rule was released on Thursday, Nov. 1, the weekend of...
View ArticleProblematic Medical Bills Drive Consumers To Cut Back On Care
As we all know, patients and families are taking over responsibility for a steadily greater percentage of their healthcare costs over time. Not surprisingly, this can affect their medical decisions in...
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Is EHR Use Causing Physician Burnout?
The following is a guest blog post by Wayne Crandall, President & CEO of NoteSwift. Over the past decade, numerous studies have been published with the same concerning conclusion – physicians are...
View ArticleCan AI Inspire Medical Creativity?
As the capabilities of healthcare AI tools grow, vendors continue to insist that as with previous generations of technology, AI will simply do the grunt work and free doctors’ minds up for higher uses....
View ArticleProgram Gets Rid Of EHR “Stupid Stuff” Flagged By Users
Physicians at Honolulu-based Hawaii Pacific Health were optimistic that they could eliminate at least some of the documentation tasks they performed when using their EHR, which had been in place for...
View ArticleThree Ways AI Can Improve Physicians’ Workflow
For far too many physicians, EHRs and other important health IT seem to get in the way of getting the job done. But according to one pair of physician-authors, emerging AI technology has the potential...
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Doctors Work 2 Hours on EHR Tasks For Every 1 Hour of Time With Patients –...
The following is a guest blog post by Wayne Crandall, President & CEO of NoteSwift. At NoteSwift, we’re passionate about providing clinicians with the tools and workflow support they need so they...
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