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HITECH: Physicians Must Meet 25 Criteria To Achieve ‘Meaningful Use’

Practices that have been waiting for CMS to define the term “meaningful use” are finally in luck. But as is always the case when the feds are involved, don’t look for a quick one-sentence definition. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009 (ARRA) offers annual bonuses to practices that show “meaningful use” of electronic health records, and in 2015, practices that aren’t showing meaningful use will face penalties. On [...]

 

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Transcription Software For Increased Productivity

By Mike Smith Faraone Transcription software actually goes back many years and people may be surprised to know that it predates the Internet. It was originally developed as an aide to the manufacturing process but because of its effectiveness it has been found to be useful in a number of other applications. One of the more predominant areas where transcription software is used is in the medical profession. In days [...]

 

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Increase Your Revenues by Implementing EMR Software!

By Valerie Mellema You may have heard of electronic medical record software reducing overhead costs and minimizing wasteful expenses. Is it really true though that you can actually increase your revenue using EHR software? Yes, because the same measures that allow you to streamline your operation also help facilitate new patients and new business, not to mention retain your patient base. How is this possible? Electronic health records software improves [...]

 

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Top 5 Tips for Selecting the Right Service Provider

By Daljeet Sidhu A medical billing service can improve the efficiency of your billing system, reduce denials, cut down operating costs, boost reimbursements and save valuable time that can be devoted to patient care. These services are better equipped to adapt to continuously changing billing codes and industry requirements. But can a medical billing service deliver the promised results? Yes, it can. However, to find the right medical billing service [...]

 

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Clock starts ticking on meaningful use comments

By Mary Mosquera The clock starts ticking today on a two-month window in which the public can comment on the Health & Human Service Department’s “meaningful use” proposal, a set of rules outlining how providers can qualify for incentives for using electronic health records. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT officially published their rules in the Federal Register Jan. [...]

 

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Physician Practices Follow 3 Simple Steps To Enter the E-Prescribing Era

Find out what percentage bonus you’ll receive from Medicare. Can your physician afford not to adopt e-prescribing? If your practice still hasn’t applied electronic prescription processes, then you could be missing out on a two percent Medicare bonus — as well as preventing prescription errors and lowering consumer costs.Follow these three simple steps to ensure an easy transition. Background: Payers and health plans have pushed for new incentives for electronic prescription this [...]

 

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Accelerating the Use of Electronic Health Records in Physician Practices

By Steven Shea, M.D., and George Hripcsak, M.D. North Shore Hospital System on Long Island in New York recently announced that it will pay an incentive of up to $40,000 to each physician in its network who adopts its electronic health record (EHR) — paying 50% of the cost to physicians who install an EHR that communicates with the hospital and 85% of the cost if the physician also shares [...]

 

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Medical Transcription Software Means Greater Efficiency

By Mike Smith Faraone For a long time medical transcription has been a growing field. It allows medical professionals to leverage their time by dictating the information that needs to be included in a patient file into some type of audio format. It is then taken by a transcriptionist for conversion to a text format. These software is making the job easier for transcriptionists and in the end it provides [...]

 

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Medical Billing Software – A Consideration For Your Staff and Patients

Medical billing software has become an office staple in many doctor and dentist offices nation wide. With the time saving and convenient application, your office is given the capability to run smoothly at high efficiency. This gives your staff the freedom to devote more of their time to the most important people to your practice, your patients. So, what should you expect from such an important investment? The medical billing [...]

 

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EMR Software Helps Physicians be More Productive

Without the help of technology, keep any kind of records can be a nightmare. Over time, the mountain of records just keep building and building, until the entire system becomes unmanageable. Records get lost or buried, and they become impossible to find. This happens to many businesses that require record keeping like medical practices or financial companies. Aware of the benefits presented by technology, many medical practices are starting to [...]

 

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The Advantages of Electronic Prescribing

By Anthony Pensabene Are you a doctor searching for better ways to treat your patients? Do you want to address administrative duties in an efficient and timely manner? E-prescribing software offers a viable solution. The benefits of electronic prescription have been aiding doctors for some time now while more doctors are realizing the benefits of such a system and implementing the software into their practices. What are the benefits of [...]

 

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CMS and ONC Issue Regulations Proposing a Definition of ‘Meaningful Use’ and Setting Standards for Electronic Health Record Incentive Program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) encourage public comment on two regulations issued today that lay a foundation for improving quality, efficiency and safety through meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. The regulations will help implement the EHR incentive programs enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). A [...]

 

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Cost-Effective and Reliable Medical Transcription Service

Medical transcription services are available for all specialties such as radiology, orthopedics, cardiology, and more. With increase in the number of patients opting for quality medical care, hospitals and clinics find it hard to maintain their medical records and reports up to date. The pragmatic solution to this problem would be to rely on cost-effective and reliable medical transcription service. A number of transcription companies have now emerged in view [...]

 

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Choosing The Right Software For Your Practice

If you have an in-house medical billing system and the necessary staff to handle the workflow, using medical billing software can dramatically improve the productivity and revenue cycle of your practice. Software can help automate the labor-intensive parts of the medical billing process and considerably speed up time-consuming (and error-prone) tasks such as patient data entry, claims submission, and payment application. There are many good software applications that are available [...]

 

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Survey finds 4 in 10 doctors use an EHR

By, Molly Merrill ATLANTA – Four of every 10 office-based physicians use electronic health records, according to 2009 preliminary estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The estimates are based on the CDC’s National Ambulatory Medical Survey (NAMCS), an annual nationally representative survey of patient visits to office-based physicians that collects information on the use of electronic medical records or electronic health records. A supplementary mail survey was [...]