A clinic’s EMR is like its circulatory system—damage it in any way and everyone in the clinic, including your patients, suffers the consequences. Alarmingly, there are thousands of clinics running faulty EMR software today. You might have heard that the executives at eClinicalWorks agreed to pay $155 million in fines—rather…
Trust between physician and patient is sacred. Trust between clinic and EHR provider is as well. That’s why news that top executives at EHR software provider, eClinicalWorks, willfully manipulated their software to achieve federal certification has rightfully sent shockwaves across the industry. Clinic admins and physicians are now all asking the tough…
If your clinic participates in Medicare Part B, you are part of the dedicated team of clinicians who serve more than 55 million of the country’s most vulnerable Americans.
Is Meaningful Use is on the ropes and about to go down for the count? Speaking in San Francisco on Monday, Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, gave a glimmer of hope to those who refer to the EHR incentive program as “meaningless use.” The…
Hurry up and wait. That’s the message to tens of thousands of physicians around the country, thanks to federal level indecisiveness when it comes to proposed rules changes for Meaningful Use Stage 3. Many doctors and clinic administrators are already feeling overwhelmed with reporting requirements of Stage 2, and now…