Category: Growth

At Power Your Practice, we pride ourselves on being able to answer the tough questions docs and administrators face at their practices. This week we worked to provide solutions to common problems in health IT, patient management, coding, and reimbursement.

Health IT is a hot topic for healthcare journalists today. Now that news moves incredibly quickly, journalists scourge Twitter and news aggregators for leads and keep their ear to the ground for ONC and CMS updates on developments like Meaningful

“Software vendors are just not playing well in the sandbox together.” That point was recently posited by SearchHealthIT writer Don Fluckinger in a post that asked a very timely question on the state of the healthcare information technology industry: “Are

The patients at your practice are like a bag of Chex Mix – every person requires varying degrees of attention for different symptoms and diseases in the way every morsel in your crunchy medley provides a different texture and taste.

Introduction As the medical billing and coding process is complicated and continues to evolve, it is imperative to grasp the specifications related to bundled codes to save money and time. They consolidate several services and procedures into a single code

According to research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 80 percent of Internet users (making up 59 percent of U.S. adults), look online for health information. Sure, the ubiquity of Internet access in modern society has changed the

In 1906, organizers of a country fair invited a crowd of nearly 1000 attendees to guess the weight of a large ox as part of a giant raffle. No one was right, but the crowd’s average was only a pound

Your practice has run smoothly for years. Upheavals are risky – no one wants to disturb a well-oiled machine. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, right? Sorry to break it to you, but it’s broken, just not in the

From an interactive EHR checklist to an interview with an industry-leading CEO, Power Your Practice presented so much useful, instructive and informative material this week that it’s hard to say which story I liked best. Which one of these was

All trends indicate healthcare is converting to a pay-for-performance model of reimbursement. Is your practice ready? Now more than ever, it’s important to account for cost issues, quality gaps, and any other missteps resulting from shifting to a new EHR

Power 5 Week in Review: EHR Transitions, Online Health Strategies & Bundled Codes