Difference between EHR and Practice Management Software
Digital record keeping is here to stay – and is evolving in leaps and bounds. The vast array of hardware and software available can be confusing to even those well versed with...
Importance of Clinical Documentation Improvement
In the current healthcare scenario, every patient encounter requires to be documented – both for future reference as well as for the facility to be reimbursed for the services...
What is Computer-Assisted Coding?
Computers are now an integral part of our daily lives – in fact it is very difficult to trace an aspect of our lives that is not touched in some form or other by computers and...
What is HIPAA Compliance? The Ultimate HIPAA Compliance Checklist
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a set of viable guidelines that dictate the security of health information which is stored/ transmitted via ...
Benefits of Electronic Health Records
Modern physician’s office can be bisected into two parts- the medical practice and the ton of paperwork and documentation that comes with maintaining a health care facility.
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HIPAA Breach Notification Rule
The risk of personal identifiable information falling into the wrong hands or even finding its way into the public domain is a fear that we constantly live with, in this age o...
MACRA – What Is It All About?
April 28, 2016 witnessed the release of the proposed rule that is intended to guide the implementation of MACRA (Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015) which ai...
Best Practices – Clinical Documentation Improvement
All healthcare facilities – irrespective of whether they are a business enterprise or a charitable institution – have to be financially viable in order to continue to provide ...
Multitude of EHR Notifications Adding To Physician Burnout
It takes just a jiffy to send an online message – compare that to the days gone by, when paper-based systems made sending messages an onerous task. That is an improvemen...
Do EHR Design Flaws Lead to Errors In The Emergency Room?
Information Technology and computers are supposed to make our work easier, faster and accurate. However, the transition to digitized record systems seems to be causing a...
