Growing consumer demand for convenience and transparency has created new opportunities and presented significant challenges for those involved in hospital…
Five Basic Steps to Protect Patients’ Private Information
These five steps will make most healthcare providers a much tougher target. Some are things that IT professionals know they…
5 Trends Impacting Healthcare in 2017
If there’s one word to describe the healthcare landscape over the past few years, it’s “change.” From a growing emphasis…
5 Tips to Improve Your Clean-Claims Rate
At a time in healthcare when value is king, waste is inexcusable, every penny counts and losing millions and millions…
Key Considerations for Implementing a Chronic Care Management Program
Care for chronically ill patients represents the most expensive segment of Medicare, with more than 93% of spending going to those with multiple…
6 EHR Patient Safety Strategies for Medication Orders, CPOE
The ONC is hoping that providers optimize their electronic health records to avoid patient safety risks tied to inefficient or…
Tips for Battling Prior Authorizations
The logisitics of prior authorizations were increasingly sapping the time and patience of employees at the practice of Hoan Pho,…
6 Tips to Help Practices Adapt to a New EHR
Measure progress Determine several metrics in advance of the implementation and then measure against them at key intervals, such as…
CDC: Only One-Third of Physicians Electronically Shared Information in 2015
In 2015, close to 78 percent of office-based physicians had a certified electronic health record (EHR) system, up from 74…
9 Health IT Executives on What it Takes to be a Most Wired Hospital
In July, Hospitals & Health Networks released its annual Health Care's Most Wired list, which measures U.S. hospitals' and health systems' level of IT…