Learn what your medical practice needs to do to demonstrate ”Meaningful Use” and receive $44000+ in HITECH stimulus incentives. In part 2 of the HITECH series, Dr. Laffel goes into more details about the HITECH timeline. Brought to you by practicefusion.com
Meaningful Use Steps and the EHR Incentive Timeline
October 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Medical Practice Trends Podcast 28: HITRUST Alliance & Keeping Your PHI Secure
September 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
MPT Podcast 28 - HITRUST Alliance & Keeping Your PHI Secure, with guest Mike Meikle, of Hawkthorne Group Consulting. Mr. Meikle explains what the HITRUST Alliance is and how they can help medical practices cut through some of the regulatory clutter.
This Issue (5:33):
- What is the HITRUST Alliance and why should you care?
- How does this tie in with HIPAA and HITECH regulations?
- How HITRUST can help practices cut through the regulatory clutter
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9 Ways to Lose Your Wallet on EMR
September 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
From WebPT, a maker of EMR for physical therapists, there is a nice list of 9 Ways to Lose Your Wallet on an EMR:
- Software Licenses
- Database License and Management
- Windows Server Software
- Virus Protection and Backup
- Disaster Recovery
- Hardware and Infrastructure
- Audits
- Long-term contracts
- Data Storage
Meaningful Use Resource Website
September 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What is Meaningful Use?
Here is a video from a cool EMR/Meaningful Use Website, whatismeaingfuluse.com.
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Medical Practice Trends Podcast 26: Social Media and the Medical Practice
September 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
MPT Podcast 26 - Social Media and the Medical Practice, with guest Joseph Kim MD, President of Medical Communications Media Inc.
This Issue (9:41):
- How specialty social media can be valuable for physicians
- Should you engage your patients on a social media site?
- How to stay on the right side of the law
- Patient portals and communicating safely with patients
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The Stages of Meaningful Use from HIMSS – Video
September 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Meaningful Use – What you need to know at every stage from HIMSS
From GE Healthcare comes this video showing the current roll out of Meaningful Use Stage 1 criteria as well as Stage 2 and Stage 3 projections.
EHRs are Easy Prey, But All is Not Lost
September 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
According to an article on NetworkWorld.com, the EMR/EHR market in the US will reach $6 billion by 2015. And where there’s money, there is crime. In recent years there has been a surge in data breaches, and as medical practices move into the digitized world more and more of these cases will involve patient data.
Christopher Burgess, an expert on IT security, says that most of these breaches occur at a base level: stolen laptops or lost some drives. Some practices feel they can avoid any problems by using Web hosted EMR systems, but even this is not a sure bet. While companies that run their software in the cloud do have more sophisticated hardware and security measures, they are not invulnerable to attack. And as the covered entity, the medical practitioner has an obligation to understand just how safe his or her patient information is.
Medical Practice Trends Podcast 25: HIPAA 5010 and ICD10 – What You Need to Know
September 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
MPT Podcast 25 – HIPAA 5010 Compliance and ICD10 Changes: What You Need to Know, with guest Mike Meikle of Hawkthorne Group Consulting. Mr. Meikle discusses new HIPAA regulations and why medical practices need to be aware of them, as well as a significant change to coding with the upcoming ICD10 codes.
This Issue (5:34):
- Is your practice ready for HIPAA 5010 compliance?
- How ICD10 may result in an increase in costs and complexity
- Some resources to help guide your practice through the transition
- Why some of these changes apply even if you are not using EMR
Medical Practice Trends Podcast 24: Scanning Paper Records into Your EMR
August 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
MPT Podcast 24 – Scanning Paper Records Into Your EMR System: Setting Up An Action Plan, with guest Mary Pat Whaley of ManageMyPractice.com. Ms. Whaley discusses some tips and best practices based on her extensive experience advising medical practices.
This Issue (8:12):
- The importance of ‘storyboarding’ your strategy for paper chart conversion
- How to decide if you need more employees for your conversion process
- Scanning vs. indexing
- When to know if you need to outsource the scanning process
- How much of the old paper record do you need to convert?
Meaningful Yoose Rap
August 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
With apologies to Will Smith fans (Fresh Prince era):
Here´s what eligible providers need to know about getting incentive dollars from CMS for the meaningful use of electronic health records in under 3 minutes. The American College of Medical Informatimusicology presents the Meaningful Yoose Rap, written and performed by Dr. HITECH, aka Ross D. Martin, MD, MHA. Directed by Ishu Krishna.
