{"id":6793,"date":"2013-05-10T18:52:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T22:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poweryourpractice.com\/?p=6793"},"modified":"2013-05-10T18:52:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T22:52:43","slug":"weekly-checkup-may-6-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/weekly-checkup-may-6-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Checkup: May 6-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Mother\u2019s Day coming up on Sunday, let\u2019s take a moment to think about what mothers do. They nurture, provide food and give comfort. Sometimes they nag. But perhaps most importantly, they provide you with guidance. In that way, <strong>PYP is like the health IT mother you never had<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In fulfilling our parental duties, this week we prepared you to make the right health IT decisions for your practice.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Are you in the market for a new EHR solution? If so, you\u2019ll want to look for an EHR with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/8-features-to-look-for-in-the-right-ehr\/\">these 8 features<\/a> to make the choice to go paperless well worth it.<\/p>\n<p>More than <strong>32 million Americans will enter the healthcare system in 2014<\/strong>. This makes it a near certainty that your practice will need to be able to handle an increased patient base. Thankfully, the right EHR will make it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/ehr-augment-practice-workflow\/\">easy for you to handle additional patients<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The raucous about ICD-10 is near deafening. You need to use any resource at your disposal to prepare for the transition. This includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/aligning-with-vendors-on-icd-10-readiness\/\">your vendor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the implementation of prepayment Meaningful Use audits in March, <strong>the chance of being audited by CMS has nearly doubled<\/strong>. Luckily, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/free-webinar-meaningful-use-audits\/\">this Thursday\u2019s free webinar<\/a> with noted Meaningful Use expert Jim Tate will help you survive and prepare for an audit.<\/p>\n<p>Use of ePrescribing rose 8% in 2012.\u00a0Here is a list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/8-essentials-to-enhancing-eprescriptions\/\">8 best practices<\/a> to help optimize your eRx workflow.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all the guidance we have for this week. Happy Mother\u2019s Day to all of the mom\u2019s reading PYP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sign up for our newsletter for more from PYP.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Mother\u2019s Day coming up on Sunday, let\u2019s take a moment to think about what mothers do. They nurture, provide food and give comfort. Sometimes they nag. But perhaps most importantly, they provide you with guidance. In that way, PYP is like the health IT mother you never had. 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