In many hospitals, physicians sometimes have trouble keeping up with STAT orders as these orders are found somewhere within patient records in the EHR. Physicians often fail to access the EHR while being engaged with patients or travelling and this makes them to occasionally miss orders. This issue could be neutralized if notifications or automatic [...]
Transitioning from an old healthcare program to a new one is not an easy process. If you have participated in the PQRS (Physician Quality Reporting System) program in past you must know how daunting can all the complex requirements created by the CMS for the MIPS (Merit based Incentive payment system) program [...]
Many physicians tend to use the terms EHR and EMR interchangeably, but interestingly these two are not the same. An Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is actually a digital version of a medical chart featuring patient information which could be stored in a computer. An Electronic Health Record (EHR), on the other hand, is a digital [...]
As US Healthcare sector moves to transform itself into something that delivers more coordinated care across various clinicians and providers, it becomes ever more important that medical data is available to providers and patients whenever and wherever they need it. In order to achieve this feat […]
April 2016, was the month when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed to implement the Quality Payment Program (QPP) under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). This affected many practices and clinicians and experts raised concerns […]
Healthcare is going through a heavy transformation thanks to the latest technological innovations. Artificial intelligence (AI) and Virtual reality (VR) are growing popular in medical schools, in the marketplace, and even in the medical examination room. This makes us wonder whether these technologies […]
Owing to the rapid adoption of certified EHRs (Electronic Health Records) and Health IT (Health Information Technology) tools, the ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology) has been very concerned about the safe use of these tools. A slight human error such as a wrong selection of an option in a drop-down [...]
Technology plays a prominent role in our lives. We use it everywhere. Whether we are dying to that new TV series everyone is talking about or getting on a plane tomorrow, all we need to do is to log on to the internet and get done with our requirements. The truth is that we are [...]
2016 had many people preparing for Obamacare, but President Trump is going to replace the healthcare program introduced by the previous president. Despite the numerical success of Obamacare, President Trump plans to implement a new health plan (Trumpcare), which experts are predicting to be readily adoptedby medical practices as soon as it is introduced. Now [...]
Healthcare interoperability is really important for medical practices of all sizes. It has been observed that many practices are still using Fax as their primary method of sharing patient data. This is a major problem and solving it would improve care and lower costs. Strangely, every healthcare organization in the US already supports it,but very [...]