HIMSS recently published its annual healthcare forecast for the year 2019. The report contains analysis and commentary from HIMSS leaders, PCHAlliance, Health 2.0 and Healthbox. The report features a birds-eye of trends and levers of change in the healthcare industry. This annual forecast by HIMSS aims to alert healthcare leaders, experts, clinicians, [...]
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society or HIMSS is going to hold its annual Global Conference & Exhibition; HIMSS19, from February 11th to February 15th in Orlando. The renowned health IT conference will be housed at the Orange County Convention Center and will bring together global healthcare industry stakeholders with […]
Managing a mental health practice can be overwhelming as the insurance reimbursement rates are getting lower and the cost of routine operations is increasing. And if the practice is not handled properly, it can cause revenue loss and patients’ dissatisfaction. Licensed Medical Health Counsellor (LMHC), Rebecca Weiler said in an interview […]
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed by Congress in 1996. The purpose of this act was to secure personal health information of the patients. At that point in time, the medical records and prescriptions were either printed or they were written on a piece of paper and then kept in the filing [...]
More than half of the medical practices in the U.S have adopted Electronic Health Record (EHR) Software, and they’ve had a huge variety of EHR service providers to choose from. Adopting the right EMR vendor is one of the most important, confusing and difficult tasks physicians do. This is because of the fragmentation in the [...]
Cardiology is a complicated specialty and practices which offer cardiology require constant checks and balances. Cardiology practices need to track patient’s information through multiple sources including images, clinical notes, lab test results etc. This information should be reliable and easily accessible to physicians so that it can be shared with other labs and hospitals. Paper [...]
This is the most important topic for healthcare providers today. Growing competition in the EMR software industry has meant that there are too many choices and too much to lose if a practice remains with broken or disappointing EMR systems. There are several factors that may make an Electronic Medical Records software solution work [...]
Recent research on Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software usage in the US has revealed that approximately 62% of optical specialties comprising optometrists, ophthalmologists, and therapeutic optometrists currently use EHR Software in one or more areas of their medical practice. Out of this 62 %, a remarkable 83% were found to be using the top Electronic [...]
Physicians have been using Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software for quite some time but one question most of them can't get over is, whether a Cloud-based EMR Software is worth the investment or not. Comparatively speaking, cloud-based software are relatively newer to the market, but they are economical and more reliable. Most practices still wonder [...]
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 [...]