Move To EMR

After having assisted numerous practices to move to EMR’s and after my last implementation experience, I decided to reflect upon the differences between these two types of transitions. One of…

On Nov. 22, 2011 I had the privilege of spending an hour on the Air with Heidi Harris on 720AM KDWN discussing the pros and cons of EMR/EHR’s. On most…

With today’s continuing downward pressure on reimbursements for health care providers, practices must improve efficiently to reduce costs. Missed appointments can significantly impact the bottom line and therefore many practices…

I wrote the cover article for the January/February issue of SMB Nation SMB PC Magazine. The edition can be downloaded by clicking on the cover image. Please let me know…

Most often, a patient’s record is just a folder with the patient’s details and photograph on the front cover and sheets of data recording previous visits inside. While some of…

Many people are still not sure what HIPAA means to their practice and what HIPAA Compliance really is. Here is a quick list from Wikipedia: Administrative Safeguards – policies and…

While reading a post on EMRandHIPAA today, I was reminded about an issues that I had thoroughly thought about two years ago when I was looking for a more capable EMR vendor to partner with for our medical practice clients.

A practice’s data (their patient charts) is not only what their business runs on, it’s proper maintenance is required by law and by a basic trust with their patients. Many EMR vendors seem to take advantage of this by holding their client’s EMR data hostage when they want to move to another product or even interface an ancillary service into their EMR.