by Mary Pat Whaley | May 9, 2010 | Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Headlines
With so much going on in healthcare, it would not surprise me if a lot of practices missed the February 2010 deadline for three expanded HIPAA rules. This expansion was dictated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act passed...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 31, 2010 | Electronic Medical Records
Everyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop on Medicare payments. Private practices may not have the in-house expertise to implement an EMR and may not be able to afford a consultant (although some states are receiving grants to help practices – check your...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 7, 2010 | Electronic Medical Records, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
NOTE: Read my latest post on how to register and attest for the EHR Incentive Programs here. Where Did the Idea of Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records Come From? The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed by President Obama on February 17,...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 14, 2009 | Electronic Medical Records, Medicare & Reimbursement
If you don’t have the following ten items on a manual checklist or in your EMR, you might want to add them. Any time I hear someone list things that improve quality of life and downstream health, I think to myself “This is future reimbursement...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 6, 2009 | Electronic Medical Records
Okay, okay, so I shamelessly lured you into reading this post by telling you Rosemarie Nelson would reveal the “best” EMR product on the market, and she really does, only not in the way you wish she would. Read on to the end of this post for her EMR...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 28, 2009 | Electronic Medical Records
Dear Readers: Here’s an email I got today asking me to publicize this poll to my readers. I thought it was interesting, so here it is. I look forward to the results. Hi Mary Pat, Here at Software Advice, we’ve been getting a lot of questions about the...
