Weekly Checkup: January 7-11
At Power Your Practice, we strive to create more useful, prescriptive content than small practices could realistically digest. This week, for instance, we provided exemplary advice from a renowned MGMA consultant, added a webinar to our Resources section, and crafted a health IT quiz for you to feast on.
Quiz: Are You a Health IT Guru?
Do you know your health IT terminology? PYP has assembled a short quiz to test your skills on the most important HIT terms in the industry. If you don’t know where to start, check out The Definitive Health IT Glossary before you get started. You’ll be glad you had a study guide.
6 Tips To Maximize Cloud-Based Practice Management
So you’ve stepped up your game. You’re on the almighty cloud. You are liege of the tech fiefdom, set to reign confidently over EHRs, PMSs, and RCM systems. But silently you may be asking yourself, “How am I supposed to use this thing?” Maximizing your use of a cloud-based practice management system for your practice’s […]
Want To Boost Your Bottom Line? Stop Waiting Around and Take Action!
So many tools to increase practice profitability exist in the current health IT marketplace – some practices just may not be aware of them. Conversely, other practices haven’t had time to learn new ways of using older solutions they’ve already integrated. Whatever the issue may be, CareCloud has teamed with Rosemarie Nelson, a renowned MGMA healthcare […]
Do You Need a Consultant for Your Practice Management System?
According to MGMA’s 2008 digest, 54.8% of physicians had utilized the services of a healthcare consultant or firm at least once in the last three years. Since that time, the amount of practice management systems permeating the market has increased. This begs the question: should physicians use a consultant to help choose a PMS for […]
14 Best Practices to Keep Your Staff HIPAA Compliant
HIPAA compliance can be a frightening concept, especially because non-compliance penalties can incur fines of up to $250,000 depending on the seriousness of the infraction. In most cases, it’s smart for providers to hire or train a HIPAA champion who focuses on security standards and oversees staff handling of patient-protected health information (PHI).
Doctors Get Parachute For Fiscal Cliff
Physicians can breathe a sigh of relief after this week’s last-minute fiscal cliff compromise, where doctors were facing a 26.5% cut in Medicare payments. As part of Tuesday’s 257 to 167 vote, Congress allocated $30 billion to doctor Medicare salaries at the expense of hospitals, which were forced to foot half the bill from their […]
5 Essential Practice Resources for 2013
It may be a new year, but there’s no reason why you can’t use a few golden oldies to confront new challenges. In recognition of this, we’ve created a reservoir of useful practice resources, ranging from a webinar to help you boost your bottom line to a highly downloaded white paper discussing the demise of EMRs. Enjoy!
4 Tips for Designing a More Productive Practice
Productivity. You’re always trying to squeeze more of it out of your practice employees, using a number of techniques and strategies you’re accustomed to falling back on. But what happens when they run dry? Well, you get creative, that’s what. Today, we are going HGTV on you, looking at how your practice’s design affects employee […]