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Podcast: Health IT and the Patient-Centered Medical Home
Paul Grundy, director of healthcare transformation with IBM, discusses meaningful connections through health IT and the patient-centered medical home care model.
 

8 Gadgets You Can't Live Without
Perhaps you're an early adopter of the latest and greatest technology, or you favor simple tools that make your life easier. Either way, chances are there's a trusty little gadget you find indispensible. We asked your fellow physicians to name a few of their favorites. Here's what they said.
   

Patient Portals: Beyond Meaningful Use
While practices are using patient portals to show meaningful use, they can also help increase efficiency and improve the quality of care.
 

High-tech Check-ins
How electronic tools for the reception area are helping practices save time, headaches, and achieve meaningful use.
 

Protect Your Practice From Data Breaches
Here's how to avoid serious financial and administrative penalties.

Should Your Medical Practice Use Cloud-based Computing?
These days, everything from EHRs to practice management systems are available via cloud computing. Is it time to ditch the servers and join the movement?
Also: Watch our video interview — Cloud Computing at Your Medical Practice

Implement Right — Technology in Your Medical Practice
Are you putting off upgrading your technology? Fear not: We offer the three most common tech mishaps, and the five essential steps for avoiding them.

Building Your Medical Practice's Online Brand
From building a great website to getting social-media savvy, here's what physicians should do to boost their cyber profiles.

Virtual Patient Visits
Conducting video visits over an Internet connection is going mainstream.

'10 Things I'll Stop Using in the Next Five Years'
Which of the trusty, everyday tools you use in your practice are edging toward extinction? Here are some of the things you told us you'll probably stop using in the next five years.
 

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Why Complex Remote-Access Systems Can Cause Problems for Practices 

 


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June 1, 2012
'My Turn as the Patient'
John K. Jarboe, MD, on how he came to appreciate the power of living a healthy life. More »
May 21, 2012
Establishing the Chain Of Command at Your Medical Practice
Clear guidelines on practice reporting structures will empower employees to work more effectively. More »
May 9, 2012
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. More »
May 4, 2012
Noteworthy: Motivational Tips; Physician Fraudster; New Old Opportunities
Noteworthy items from Physicians Practice More »
May 3, 2012
'10 Things I'll Stop Using in the Next Five Years'
Which of the trusty, everyday tools you use in your practice are edging toward extinction? Here are some of the things you told us you'll probably stop using in the next five years. More »
May 1, 2012
Meaningful Use: The Electronic Communication Requirement
Electronic communication between healthcare providers has the potential to radically change healthcare. Referring physicians, consultants, and patients all stand to gain from its use; so why are physicians hesitating? More »
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Kerry Shackelford of Coalfire explores security issues in the collection and storage of healthcare data and the ongoing search for uniform standards other industries already have in place. More here.


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The Physicians Start-Up Guide: Buying an Existing Practice
Ike Devji, JD , May 22, 2012

Here's a simple checklist of common issues to consider when you are thinking of buying an existing medical practice or buying out a retiring partner / practice owner.

Work-Life Balance Obstacles: Be Smart with Your Medical Charts
Jennifer Frank, MD , May 22, 2012

Here are 10 tips to improve documentation at your medical practice to get you out of the office and back home to spend time with your family.

The Right People in the Right Roles Is Key to Your Medical Practice
Sue Irwin, MCS-P , May 22, 2012

No longer can a medical practice be run like it was in the last century. A successful medical practice must run more as a professional business.

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Consumer Groups Seek Tougher Meaningful Use Requirements
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Consumer Partnership for eHealth calls for quicker data transfer to patients, higher threshold for exchange of clinical summaries.
Patient Advocates Urge Fast Access To Hospital Data
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American Hospital Association's call for 30-day waiting period to access electronic records would harm patients, according to Society for Participatory Medicine.
Banner Health Achievement Highlights EHR Struggles
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Just 82 hospitals have completed the prestigious HIMSS Analytics EHR adoption program, and 17 of them belong to Banner. Is the bar for another EHR measurement--Meaningful Use--set too high?
Healthcare Providers Have Big BI Plans
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Advent of accountable care organizations and health information exchanges driving hospitals to invest in more business intelligence tools, KLAS survey says.
Health Insurers Proceed On IT Aspects Of 'Obamacare'
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Regardless of the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act, health plans likely will implement the technology needed to meet its objectives, predicts one prominent IT consultant.

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Login Email. Password. PhysiciansPractice Members: Technology Wouldn't it be great if you knew how everyone was implementing technology? ... Now you can. A few years ago "There's an app for that"became the king of technology slogans,.
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With support from the health system reform law, 26 projects aim to reduce health spending through decreased utilization and improved primary care access.|With support from the health system reform law, 26 projects aim to reduce health spending through decreased utilization and improved primary care access.
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Israeli start-up Spectrum Dynamics has developed technology that can generate 10 times the sensitivity and double the spatial resolution of conventional Anger cameras, according to the company. ... The technology, developed by Philips Medical Solutions
JAMA Network | JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association | Recent Advances in Mobile Technology Benefit Global Health, Research, and Care
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Recent Advances in Mobile Technology Benefit Global Health, Research, and Care. ... Now that more than 5 billion people worldwide have a cell phone, mobile technology sits poised to revolutionize the way medical care and health information are delivered,
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