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
Click the play button to hear the podcast
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.
Brought to you by Expert EMR.
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.
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.
EHR Success Stories: The Reality of Clinical Quality Measures
August 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Many new EHR users currently view clinical quality measures as just another item on the checklist towards demonstrating meaningful use. However, veteran EHR users like Northwest Health Services, Inc., which has been using EHR for 7 years, sees clinical quality measures as an important tool that enables providers to distinguish between perceptions and reality when it comes to patient care and outcomes.
What is the HITECH Act?
August 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
An overview by AthenaHealth
Yes, it is a commercial. But it is a clever overview of the what the HITECH Act is all about, especially if you consider yourself a newbie when it comes to EHR and Meaningful Use. So grab some popcorn and enjoy.
Highlights of the HITECH Act – Video
August 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The HITECH Act: Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use
This short educational animated video made by Capture Billing highlights the key features of the HITECH Act, Meaningful Use, and Stimulus Money for EHRs and what it means for you and your practice.
5 Tips for Medical Practice Websites
July 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Your medical practice’s website can become your “new storefront” according to Mike Cuesta, on HealthCareITNews.com. But he offered some tips to ensure their success with patients:
- Ensure patients can register and make appointments, such as through a patient portal
- Make sure to display timely news and updates via a blog
- Display contact information clearly on every page
- Have useful patient education resources
- List all services offered and insurance companies accepted
And speaking of patient portals, they can help garner financial incentives for your practice. According to Omedix, some of the criteria for Meaningful Use which can be met with a patient portal include:
- Timely electronic access to changes in health information (Menu Set)
- Electronic copies of their health record (Core Set)
- Clinical summaries after each office visit (Core Set)
- Patient-specific education resources
