Eight ICD-10 Resources to Prepare Your Practice
ICD-10 training for your staff will vary by learning style and practice role. Here are eight resources to meet your needs.
The Effect of ICD-10 on Your Medical Practice Budget
You've budgeted for training and software upgrades, but there are less tangible costs attributed to the ICD-10 transition. Here's how to prepare.
Making ICD-10 Training Fun at Your Medical Practice
From team competitions to your own game of Jeopardy!, training for the ICD-10 transition can be enjoyable for your medical practice.
Three Strategies to Help Your Practice Embrace ICD-10
ICD-10 is coming whether we like it or not. Here's how to get your medical practice to accept the coming coding set transition.
With ICD-10 Training, Timing Is Everything
How to manage the timing of your ICD-10 training - whether you anticipated a 2014 transition or have done nothing so far.
Six Critical ICD-10 Questions for Your Software Vendors
The ICD-10 deadline is only nine months away. Here are six questions to ask your software vendors immediately.
Understanding Meaningful Use Penalties in 2015
The EHR Incentive Programs take a new turn in 2015: the penalty phase. More rule changes may come, but providers shouldn't count on relief.
Time Is Running Out for Meaningful Use in 2014
Here's what you need to know to help you close out your 2014 meaningful use reporting year and get ready for 2015.
Three Tips to Reboot, and Not Replace, Your EHR
If your practice is not getting the most out of its EHR, here are three tips to get your vendor to make it right.
Three Tips for Successful EHR Training
Take training seriously at your practice and you may find that you have a much happier relationship with your EHR system.
EHR Vendor Relations: 4 Tips to Better Communication
One of the keys to successful implementation of EHRs is good communications with your vendor. Here are four tips to a better dialogue.
Ditching Your EHR: 4 Key Questions
When your EHR is no longer working for your practice, it may be time to search for a new product.
Patient Portals: More Than a Tool to Meet Meaningful Use
Smart use of your patient portal can not only help physicians meet meaningful use rules, but also foster better patient interactions.
Three Tips to More Effective and Efficient Use of Your EHR
The gap between having an EHR and meeting meaningful use is wide. Here are three tips to narrow the divide.
Make Meaningful Use Clinical Summaries Work for You and Your Patients
Providing your patients with useful clinical summaries to meet meaningful-use requirements might be trickier than you expect.
Meaningful Use Already Improving Patient Care
In the three years since the first providers began attesting, meaningful use has already started benefiting patients.
Meaningful Use Security Risk Analysis: 6 Areas to Review
The Stage 2 rules of meaningful use call for a security risk analysis of your practice. Here are some common sources of data loss to examine.
Meaningful Use Proposed Changes Offer Physicians More Time, Flexibility
CMS has offered a bit of a reprieve to eligible providers struggling to meet the meaningful use guidelines for Stage 2. Here are the details.
It's Not Too Late to Catch Up on Meaningful Use
Running behind on the meaningful use requirements for the EHR Incentive Programs? It might not be as bad as it seems for your practice.
Meaningful Use: Getting Patient Buy-in to Meet Portal Requirements
Getting your patients to use your patient portal may not be as hard as you think. Here's why.
ICD-10 Delay: Good News or Bad for Physicians?
Whether they think it is good or bad news, savvy physicians will use the extra time to prepare their practices for the ICD-10 coding transition wisely.
ICD-10 Training: Start Early, Practice Often
There's plenty to do to get your medical practice ready for ICD-10, but proper training tops the list.
Keep Your Medical Practice in the Black During the ICD-10 Transition
Don't let the ICD-10 transition hurt your practice's bottom line. Here are ways for you and your staff to survive and thrive during this major change.