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Adopting a More Streamlined Approach – Electronic Medical Records Identity solutions allow healthcare officials and institutions to improve the onboarding process by eliminating extraneous paperwork and their associated costs. It also goes beyond cutting down on paperwork to help reduce labor costs, improve the flow of patient information and transactions, and reduce problems like claim rejections owed to wrong or missing information. As the healthcare system makes the gradual change from physical paper documents to electronic medical record (EMR) systems, the benefits — and incentives — for adopting a more streamlined approach are becoming clear. Protecting customers and the industry from fraud Having the power to verify patient identity allows hospitals and other practices to confirm that any given record is accurate and up to date, and gives them the peace of mind to know that their patient data isn’t being used by malicious hackers or fraudsters. Creating a more mobile healthcare experience Healthcare staff are no longer bound to desks and front offices when patient information can be effortlessly pulled up on a terminal or tablet. Providers can swipe or scan IDs, documents, and insurance cards wherever they are, which means no more running around for charts or files. […]
MicroMD, DashboardMD, and Managing RVUs In partnership with MicroMD, dashboardMD integrates with MicroMD Practice Management software to extract key financial and claims data to do your number crunching behind the scenes. One area in which dashboardMD may be of assistance to your practice is with RVUs (Relative Value Units). For more information on what RVUs mean to you and how dashboardMD can help, continue reading the article below, written by MicroMD eSERVICES partner, dashboardMD. Better tools. Better results. Best practices. Better performing practices use RVUs for analysis and benchmarking across multiple areas of the revenue cycle such as: Productivity Cost and Profitability Compensation Contract Reimbursement E&M Coding Compliance However, working with RVUs can be a tedious, error prone and laborious process that involves compiling lots of data and managing many formulas. dashboardMD’s RVU analytics module delivers a turnkey environment with daily interactive RVU monitoring dashboards, numerous pre-built RVU Analysis Reports and easy to use Ad Hoc tools for on-the-fly reporting. Powerful RVU Analytics and Key Performance Indicators that are off the beaten path… One of the most common uses of RVU values is to compare physicians, peer-to-peer by specialty, either within the practice or by using external industry benchmark data […]
Making the Transition to MIPS The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 was landmark legislation that created the National Quality Strategy (NQS) and which included the redesign of Medicare’s fee-for-service (FFS) payment structure. Medicare revised the NQS with the express purpose of becoming an active purchaser of quality healthcare, instead of a passive payer for medical services. As the Medicare Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) in Ohio, Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) works with providers to assist in making this transition to value based payment for quality healthcare seamless and transparent. HSAG’s current work supports physicians’ incentive programs, including the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and Meaningful Use (MU). PQRS serves as the foundation for documenting the quality of care individual or group practices are providing through submission of evidence-based quality measures via their electronic health record (EHR). 2016 will be the last year that quality measures and EHR MU attestation is required for providers who participate in Medicare Fee for Service (FFS) billing. As set forth in the new Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), legislation which replaces the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), MACRA streamlines PQRS, MU, and the value-based modifier […]
How to best optimize your Nuance® Dragon® Medical Practice Edition 2 Profile Your profile is an important part of your practice. Created after installing the application, it collects and contains all of your voice data, templates, and vocabulary. Over time, you may find that you need assistance with some aspect of profile maintenance, whether it’s transferring it to a new computer, restoring it, improving it, or backing it up. You can maintain your profile accuracy by following some of the best practices below: Accents: If you believe you have an accent, choose it from the list of accents during profile creation. But if you’re unsure, choose Standard. When you run the optimization process, Dragon Medical will decide if your voice qualifies for one of its accent models or not. Optimization/Accuracy Tuning: This is a process that helps Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 make changes to your profile based on corrections, training, and other speech data. These are some basic functions that should be well understood by any organization using Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 to dictate patient encounters. Some of these functions are configured by default, but you will see that they tend to be interrelated and/or interdependent. If you […]
On Our MicroMD Roadmap… Here at MicroMD, we always strive to look toward the future to work to provide you with the best of what we have to offer. To that end, we have a few exciting items coming up on our roadmap that you should be aware of. We are looking at new ways to address PQRS submission methods and the flexibility that can give our practices. We are also doing some exciting work to jump into innovation with a new advisory board and a set of webinars in our new Healthcare Happenings Into the Future: Innovation Webinar Series. PQRS Currently on our radar is the ability to offer three different options for PQRS reporting in order to allow our practices to choose which option will work best for them. The first option will involve customizing our QRDA file for the PQRS incentive program and allowing practices to choose from our current clinical quality measures to produce a file that can be uploaded to the appropriate website. This option is in the works and will be available in the near future, with further communications to follow. The next option is currently available and uses claims data through our Practice […]
Cash flow management is a complex challenge. At TSI we believe that everyone can and should understand the essentials. There are five key parts to understand those basics and take the right steps to improving your cash flow. Depreciation is the Enemy Picture your delinquent account as a car you’ve just driven off the sales lot. The farther it gets from where it started, the more miles it acquires and the less it’s worth. The same holds for your delinquent accounts – a 120-day-old account just isn’t worth the same as a 10-day-old one, even if the amount owed is the same dollar value. Just like that car, your old account is less likely to perform well and less likely to arrive at its destination (payment) than its younger counterpart. Why? Because… All Payers Are Not Created Equal Just because people owe the same debts for the same services, does not make them the same type of payer. There are FOUR types of payers and you as a professional will deal with all four. Dutiful – The dutiful payer pays on time, every time. Distracted – The distracted payer means well, but often forgets. They will pay, and not terribly […]
Health Management Technology, October 2012 Six strategic tips that will help ensure the smooth selection and deployment of practice automation tools. Read More →
The PAHCOM Journal, March/April 2012 Practices my have different reasons for wanting to implement Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software. It can be a step for first time adoption, or to replace their current EMR with a new once. Read More →
Physicians Practice Blog, July 2011 One year ago today, CMS birthed the 800-plus-page document outlining its Stage 1 “meaningful use” incentive criteria for EHRs. The immediate results went something like this: Some practices set to work, while others flat-out refused to budge from their papery ways. Read More →