EMR Update – follow along as Ocala Eye implements its EMR system

This Issue:

• What to do with all of those paper forms
• Don’t reinvent the wheel – stay up-to-date with your EMR software’s updates
• The structure of your training process and implementation rollout

Ask Bob – where we try to stump our seasoned practice administrator – what if a star employee shows up wearing a tongue ring?

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Every so often, a visitor from afar (usually from Canada or Great Britain) will comment on the plight of the American health care system and the advantages of their “nationalized” health service. Yes, we certainly have our share of troubles here in the US. And if the current news is any indication, the upcoming election is shaping up to bring more uncertainties for the medical profession – regardless of which political party we are talking about.

A recent blog on ZDNet mentions a survey of Dutch citizens who are generally happy with their form of health care, which is primarily a government-sponsored system with some private carriers (similar to the system implemented in Massachusetts). All people are required to carry insurance, in some cases with government subsidies, relieving employers of the burden of (more…)

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An article posted on ZD Net discusses a new online service that helps patients avoid being “non-adherent”, i.e. to take their meds. The American economy loses $177-300 billion per year because people don’t take their medicine properly.

Sean Teare is president of InnovationRx, a Massachusetts-based unit of a British company which aims both to cut the cost of nagging people to take their meds and improve the rate at which they do.

Will this new service work?

As to their business model, “We’re a subset of disease management. If you don’t improve adherence you can lose the impact of other changes. Health plans are looking for short term ROI, and we can show that.”

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Once again we were saved from another Medicare cut at the last minute. This is really getting old. The only consolation is that for once it is getting more press coverage than in the past, mostly with the (correct) slant that these cuts will ultimately hurt Medicare beneficiaries. Several Republican senators changed their votes from their previous positions on HR 6331 to yes after receiving a lot of flack from their constituents, many of them physicians.

Someone (a Fox News follower) said, “There must have been a reason that those senators voted against it.” Well, yes, apparently there was. (more…)

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