Death of a Pager
There was a funeral in Japan this past Sunday. It was lovely, really, featuring a tent with an altar of flowers and a memorial display. The deceased in question? The pager. The funeral was put on...
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Out-of-the-Box Charge Capture Tricks
Is your practice using a digital charge capture solution? If not, you should be. Check out our article Five Reasons Digital Charge Capture Is Worth It to see why. If you are, congratulations on...
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Five Reasons Digital Charge Capture Is Worth It
If you’re a physician or advanced practice provider, you’re already inundated with medical software. If you’re still rounding and capturing charges with paper, you may be wondering why it’s worth...
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Healthcare Needs Physician Innovators
The medical field continues to lag behind other industries in terms of process improvement, adoption of modern workflows, and information technology. Physicians and other medical professionals...
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Physicians Should Round Smarter, Not Harder
Healthcare may be one of the very few industries in which you don’t immediately get paid for the work or service provided. Rather, it can be days, weeks, or even months before payment is actually...
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WHY Practice Automation Improves Patient Care and Safety
With all the changes in healthcare, imagine what these disruptions do to physicians and ultimately the care they provide to patients. Most medical students dream of healing the sick and providing...
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Pop-Ups and Inbox Messages and Data, Oh, My!
Early in my clinical applications career, we were wading through Meaningful Use Stage 2. It was painful for all concerned. Perhaps one of the biggest associated challenges we had to work through...
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TOP 5 PRIORITIES for the 5 Months Left in 2019: HEALTHCARE LEADERS Need to Prioritize These Items NOW
Focus on your PEOPLE Your number one priority if you are sitting in the C-Suite is taking care of your PEOPLE. Wait. What? You may be thinking, “Shouldn’t patients always come first? “I...
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Telehealth can Reduce Healthcare Costs and Increase 1:1 Time with Your Patient
According to Definitive Health’s 2019 Annual Healthcare Trends Survey: 38% of Hospital Executives reported reducing operating expenses was their number one priority for 2019. The challenge is….how...
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Telehealth can Reduce Healthcare Costs and Increase 1:1 Time with Your Patient
According to Definitive Health’s 2019 Annual Healthcare Trends Survey: 38% of Hospital Executives reported reducing operating expenses was their number one priority for 2019. The challenge is….how...
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Want to Lower Readmissions? Do These 6 Things Now.
Patients are getting lost between the in-patient and out-patient world. This results in higher readmissions, sicker patients, and skyrocketing healthcare costs. Today, on average, the national...
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Want to LOWER READMISSIONS? Do These 6 THINGS NOW.
Patients are getting lost between the in-patient and out-patient world. This results in higher readmissions, sicker patients, and skyrocketing healthcare costs. Today, on average, the national...
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Competence is a Ladder
How Understanding the Four Stages of Competence Can Improve the Way You Learn and Teach In 2004, I started the University of Arizona’s Paramedic program. It was an intense program by any standard...
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Chaos and Disconnections: Modern Healthcare in America
Healthcare has advanced in leaps and bounds over the past two decades. From imaging to robotics to novel pharmaceuticals to medical devices - we have seen innovation pave the way for the potential...
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Overcoming the Complexity of Interoperability
For years, clinic practices, hospitals, surgery centers, urgent care, assisted living, nursing homes, etc., have operated in silos. You’re probably thinking, “Tell me something I don’t know!” Here...
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Are You Placing Yourself AT RISK for Getting Fined? 4 Things you Can Do NOW to Protect YOU and YOUR PRACTICE
Officials state that small scale breaches of privacy often cause the most harm. According to the ProPublica Report, violations that expose the health details of just a patient or two are...
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TOP 5 Reasons for Clinical Practices to GO PAPERLESS in 2019
Going paperless is not just simply adopting an Electronic Medical Record. This is just the first step, as your practice likely manages a ton of paper in other areas. Paper truly impedes the...
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Purposeful Rounding with Automated Charge Capture
Rounding with a purpose. Interesting,…tell me more. Heavy caseload. Multiple hospitals. Sick patients—some, very high risk. Long hours. Exhausted. Missed dinners. No relief in sight. Fast...
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Charge Capture and Modern Rounding Solutions
I remember the days when writing “Agree with above” in the paper chart was enough to satisfy the clinical documentation gods. Those were simpler times. A modern clinical practice has become more...
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Hospital Charge Capture Best Practices for Doctors
Most specialist doctors spend their days solving complex health problems on a fixed time budget, with limited resources and inefficient tools. Ironically and stunningly, they spend more time at a...
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