Technology & AI

With some planning, staff cooperation, and the right technology vendors, one practice shows that getting patients to pay can be done more effectively.

The combination of high-tech and “high-touch” patient advisors can not only improve health outcomes, but produce a return on investment.

Recent pilot initiatives have found that when physicians share their medical notes with patient, it has a positive effect for both parties.

By taking a different approach, providers have an opportunity to transform patient engagement, while greatly improving care and lowering costs.

Scottsdale Health Partners has used IT and care coordinators to get physicians and hospitals working hand-in-hand in a value-based environment.

OhioHealth is using mobile technology to help its patients become better informed on their care, which leads to happier patients and better outcomes.

How health IT played an important role in one Colorado group's success in population-care management through a CMS pilot program.

With hundreds of sessions, thousands of exhibitors, and 40,000 people to meet, you'll need to plan your time at HIMSS16 strategically.

Providers are dropping the ball when it comes to what patients want out of mobile health platforms. Here's what they should know about its potential.

Practices have to learn to better leverage healthcare data from IT systems to improve their performance.

Seek out peer organizations for benchmarking and create opportunities for face time with your vendor contacts.

Solicit feedback from physician and non-physician users, and always keep the vendor’s perspective in mind.

Physicians know what true "interoperability" means, but they have to deal with a misguided definition from the health IT industry.

As a doc, if you’ve come up with a great invention, you might be contractually obligated to hand over that IP to your employer. Here’s how to avoid that.

When they have some time to spare, what apps do physicians like for fun? Here's what's on their devices.

Tap your tech-savvy physicians as inside experts and champions while investing time in education and support.

If your practice suffers a security breach, staff must know their part in implementing an incident response.

You’ll thank yourself later if you get everything in writing and establish a milestone-based payment schedule.

Why are more physicians experiencing burnout? The answer doesn’t lie in practicing medicine, but rather in checking boxes and meeting compliance.

Training your medical staff to securely handle and protect sensitive patient data isn't as hard as you think.

Before you throw dirt and write the obituary of meaningful use, physicians should know this about the program supposedly ending in 2016.

A recent case indicates that practices cannot cut corners when it comes to ensuring business associates are compliant with HIPAA.

The smartphones, tablets, and laptops are valuable tools to many physicians, but they can also represent real risk in the event that they are stolen.

Despite all the hoopla surrounding ICD-10, nearly half the practices polled by Physicians Practice had no problems in transitioning to the new code set.

Improving EHR documentation will be an essential way to combat the recent trend of upcoding that has gotten the attention of the federal government.