by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 13, 2015 | Compliance, Electronic Medical Records, Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week
Last week, CMS published a new proposed rule for Meaningful (MU). This rule strives to “…align Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 1 and Stage 2 objectives and measures with the long-term proposals for Stage...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 16, 2013 | Amazing Customer Service, Electronic Medical Records, Innovation, Learn This: Technology Answers, Practice Marketing, Social Media
I am always excited when physicians design products for other physicians because they “get it.” Here’s the tale of a Midwest physician, Dr. Fred Church, who has developed a free app to communicate one-on-one with his patients via email or text....
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 26, 2013 | Amazing Customer Service, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Innovation, Quality
Sometimes you find the most amazing things in your own backyard. In Research Triangle Park, NC, I found the wonderful Dr. Chuck Lee, President and Founder of Polyglot. I was bemoaning the lack of good translation software for healthcare and Sims Preston, CEO of...
by Abraham Whaley | May 1, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement, Quality
NOTE: CMS has just added additional presentations of the webinar below – please check the end of the article for added dates. MPW What is PQRS? The Physician Quality Reporting System (Physician Quality Reporting or PQRS) is a CMS reporting program...
by Abraham Whaley | Apr 7, 2013 | Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records
A new report suggests that 2013 may be the year of the great electronic medical records (EMR) vendor switch given that many EMRs are falling short of providers’ expectations. To come to that conclusion, Black Book Rankings polled roughly 17,000 active EMR...
by Abraham Whaley | Mar 20, 2013 | Electronic Medical Records, Headlines
The HIMSS13 Conference in New Orleans, one of the biggest gatherings of Health Information Technology professionals of the year, was host to speakers, panel discussions, and one pretty large announcement from some of the big names in the electronic health record...
