Category: Growth

The Continuity of Care Document, or CCD, is a healthcare standard EHRs will use to exchange data per the HITECH Act’s Meaningful Use Requirements. However, it goes beyond just being a spec, so to speak. But CCDs are more than

At PYP, we like to engage in the conversations that doctors are having across the country. When it comes to policy changes that affect the healthcare industry, not all doctors find themselves on the same side of an issue –

That’s right – some of the government’s most sensitive information is moving out of the server and into the cloud. News broke last month that the Pentagon is planning to implement a four-part “cloud computing strategy” across the Department of

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

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

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

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

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,

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

From Incubate Miami to the Meetup.com groups that keep popping up in my inbox, Miami’s vibrance is spilling over into its entrepreneurial groups, which are clustering in industrial parks and business sectors from the airport to Little Haiti. At CareCloud,

How Will EHRs Use CCDs to Manage Data?