ICD-10: Why the Delay is Bad for Your Practice
As was argued yesterday, it’s easy to look at the HHS’ ICD-10 postponement as a welcome delay. Change is hard, right? Sometimes you need more time. Sure. But sometimes change is necessary. Delaying the crucial (and beneficial) move to ICD-10 isn’t easing the transition process for practices – it’s adding more kinks to an already […]
ICD-10: Why the Delay is Good for Your Practice
The ICD-10 transition’s reign of fear over the healthcare world was somewhat softened a few months back once the US Department of Health and Human Services postponed the October 2013 compliance date. The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) followed up the decision with an open letter to HHS, stating the delay was a […]
Q&A: Chatting with Jerry Haar and Nancy Borkowski of FIU Business – Part 2
There’s something contagious about entrepreneurship, and like epidemics, it’s often misunderstood or feared. But if other innovators can channel that negative energy into something positive, then you have the kind of radiant enthusiasm capable of igniting an entire industry. Last week you read about the Pino Center, and read Dr. Haar and Dr. Borkowski’s insights […]
Will Your EHR Support “Accountable Care”?
The technology required for participation in an accountable care organization (ACO) is not only loosely defined, but it’s also largely “untestable,” according to Shahid Shad, software analyst and author of The Health IT Guy blog. Nonetheless, the EHR vendor community is making a subtle shift from the “meaningful use” emphasis of the past several years […]
Power 5 Week in Review: How Should You Market Your Practice?
We gave our contributors a break at Power Your Practice this week, resulting in a boisterous collection of homegrown content on health IT and practice management issues that actually matter, not just oft-Googled topics. I guess we’re just all about the local movement around here. Check out a rundown of the week’s five posts.
Can the Cloud Cure Healthcare? A New Intel Whitepaper Aims to Find Out
Now that the media world is tired of covering the Affordable Care Act, journalists have turned their watchful eyes to the next trending topic in the healthcare industry: cloud computing. This isn’t news to us, however, and we admit we’re not shocked to learn cloud computing in the healthcare sector is projected to grow to […]
The Physician’s Guide to Marketing
We at Power Your Practice understand there are many aspects of the business of healthcare that doctors aren’t taught in medical school. In today’s rapidly changing healthcare system, physicians have enough trouble on their hands keeping up with government mandates, evolving patient expectations, and professional regulations. What doctors out there have time to investigate marketing […]
Affordable Care Act: Miami Healthcare Leaders Discuss ‘What’s Next’
To help area healthcare execs and business owners gain perspective on the tumultuous state of healthcare in the U.S., the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a well-attended luncheon and panel discussion on healthcare. The event was called “What’s Next After the Supreme Court Rules?” but that moniker’s a bit misleading. Judging from its […]
5 Keys to Healthcare Franchising Success
The healthcare franchising trend continues to proliferate and may be making you curious. Is buying a healthcare franchise a good investment decision? It certainly can be. Franchises in the urgent care and home health spaces are earning traction – and revenue – across the country. But purchasing a franchise is not a business decision to […]
Help Newer Patients Overcome Anxiety
Marketer-entrepreneur Seth Godin enjoys discussing the reduced power of marketers’ post-TV-industrial complex, meaning it’s tough to command the attention of whomever, whenever. Doctors are sometimes similarly hindered because although patients are forced to see them at some point, the doctor has little control over the opinions patients form at that first moment of truth – especially […]