It’s been a cloudy, rainy week for us at Power Your Practice – a rarity here at our Miami headquarters. To counteract the gloominess outside, we spent the last few days shining a light on a wealth of ways for you to improve your practice.
We hope the material, ranging from a piece illuminating the pervasiveness of outdated EHR code to an article on how casting light on your pricing can help your patients, brightened up your week.
Is MUMPS Infecting EHRs?
MUMPS is a programming language created in the 1960s that’s still widely used in healthcare information systems today, despite the advancement of most other sectors toward cloud-based IT. If it’s not soon phased out of product development, it could stagnate the potential for true interoperability in healthcare.
3 Phases of RCM: Use Best Practices to Improve Performance
To figure out if your practice is running as efficiently and cost-effectively as possibly, you must break down the revenue cycle, take a critical look at each phase, and work to track, measure, and improve your metrics. Learn what “Best Practice” goals to aim for to ensure you collect top-line reimbursements and achieve optimal performance.
Transparent Pricing: Make Costs Clear to Enhance Care
Patients, for better or worse, are making fiscally motivated healthcare decisions. Adapting to today’s cost-driven healthcare environment can prove beneficial – not just for patients, but for providers, too. This article points out why and how to make your practice a leader in healthcare cost clarity.
The End of EMR: Why One Letter Matters
This third installment of “The End of EMR” series lays out the ONC’s definitions of “electronic medical record” and “electronic health record” to highlight the EHR’s superiority once and for all! To learn even more about what makes an EHR a better electronic records solution.
The 6 Building Blocks of High-Performing Primary Care
The California HealthCare Foundation performed extensive research to figure out what differentiated highly effective, team-focused primary care practices from their peers. The six notable characteristics they discovered are introduced in this article and fully illuminated in CHCF’s engaging “Building Blocks” report.
We at PYP hope you have a very sunny weekend – wherever you are! While you’re enjoying your days away from the office, visit Power Your Practice on Facebook and let us know what issues you’d like us to shine some light on in the coming weeks.
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