Top Ten Tech Tools for Your Medical Practice
Here are 10 time-saving apps and technology tips that can make your personal and professional life easier.
Staffing Your Medical Practice for Excellence
Your front office is the face of your practice, therefore, it should be a top priority to hire and retain quality staff members.
Revenue Cycle Management Is More Than Billing Patients
Effective patient registration, insurance verification, and claims processing are essential to maintaining practice viability. Here's what you need to know.
Vendor Relationships and Your Medical Practice
Vendor relationship management, done with purpose and thoughtfulness, can benefit any medical practice - large or small.
Is Your Practice Fully Engaged With Its Patient Portal?
A patient portal can reduce the time your staff spends on administrative tasks and remind patients that you care enough to provide prompt service.
Have You Optimized Your EHR?
What does a successful EHR implementation look like? Consultant Rosemarie Nelson spells it out in four easy steps.
Using Medical Apps in Your Practice
More than likely you have a smartphone. But, are you using it to the fullest extent of its capabilities? There are literally millions of apps available, with thousands of them being dedicated to health. Here are a few of our favorites.
Patient Portals: 6 Ways to Improve Patient Care
Achieve meaningful use, increase profitability, and improve quality care with your patient portal.
Identifying and Measuring Quality Care Indicators
Does your practice act upon patient data gathered at intake and record it in such a way that it can be tied to clinical quality indicators? If not, you may be missing out on additional revenue.
Increase Medical Practice Staff Teamwork, Productivity
Fix the rift between front- and back-office staff with these strategies.
Can You Practice Medicine and Manage Your Practice?
Whether you practice alone, or in a group, if you're trying to see patients in this pay-for-volume environment and also run the business of your practice, you may be missing out on important opportunities.
ACOs: A Guide for Physicians
Should you join an accountable care organization? It's important for physicians in community-based practices. Here's what you need to know about this emerging care-delivery model.
Managing Staffing Costs at Your Medical Practice
Work flow, technology, and shaking up traditional job duties can all affect staffing needs
PM/EHR User Groups
Don't underestimate the power of networking
Using Tech Tools to Automate Your Practice
Do you wonder how you can become more efficient and improve your bottom line? Let technology address efficiency and reduce operational costs.
What's Your Security Risk?
The HITECH Act significantly strengthened aspects of the HIPAA Security Rule. If you are a 'Covered Entity' or 'Business Associate' it's time to get serious!
Cloud-Based EMR Selection For Smaller Practices
"Which Electronic Medical Record system should I select?" This question has long vexed physicians and managers in practices of 10 doctors or fewer. And now a new wrinkle has emerged
Teaching Meaningful Use to Your Staff
Involving your support staff is essential to achieving meaningful use of a certified EHR. Do you have a plan?
Benchmarks for Your Practice
What yardstick should you use to measure your practice against those of your colleagues?
Cut Down on Prescription Refill Requests
Don't make unnecessary work for your office, think ahead.
Taming the Telephone Tiger
The phones never seem to stop ringing in a medical practice. How does your practice manage incoming calls?
Patient Portals
What can a patient portal do for your practice? Expert Rosemarie Nelson tells you, from reducing phone calls to generating revenue.
Schedule Smarter
Do you feel tied down and beaten up by your schedule? Well, there are things you can do to schedule smarter and end the tyranny of double booking.
How to Reduce Denials
What is the simplest method for reducing denials? Get the correct patient data from the start.
Staffing for Work Flow
Wondering if you are overstaffed? Make sure to evaluate your work flow and practice operations first before cutting staff.
Does your medical practice have a Web site? If so, you are on your way to building a patient portal.
Harnessing Technology
Technological advances have revolutionized clinical practice, and they have also introduced new, innovative, and better ways to manage your business practices.
Meaningful Use
Physicians must meaningfully use electronic health records to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - a.
Five Great IT Tools Under $100
Technology offers so many different tools to accomplish so many different tasks.