{"id":9409,"date":"2013-10-04T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poweryourpractice.com\/?p=9409"},"modified":"2013-10-04T19:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T23:00:50","slug":"weekly-checkup-september-30-october-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/weekly-checkup-september-30-october-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Checkup: September 30-October 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news this week has undoubtedly been the government shutdown. CNN even has a somewhat hilarious government shutdown clock continuously displayed in case anyone ever wonders exactly how many minutes it\u2019s been since our government\u2019s operations came to halt.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a tiny sliver of good news. <strong>Power Your Practice hasn\u2019t stopped chugging along<\/strong>, meaning we\u2019re still able to provide all the health IT and practice management goodness our readers have come to expect.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><!--more-->Power Your Practice<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As the healthcare industry\u2019s adoption rate of health IT solutions continues to skyrocket, so do costs. MGMA revealed that practices\u2019 annual expenditures on IT costs have risen 27.8% since 2008. Luckily, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/does-the-cloud-keep-health-it-costs-grounded\/\">cloud-based solutions<\/a> can help mitigate inflation.<\/p>\n<p>ICD-10 is officially less than one year away, so <strong>we\u2019ve addressed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/revenue-cycle-management\/icd-10-one-year-away-are-you-ready\/\">ICD-10\u2019s biggest concerns<\/a><\/strong> and provided the resources you need to fix them.<\/p>\n<p>Give your revenue cycle a boost by drafting better <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/revenue-cycle-management\/writing-a-medical-collection-letter-that-will-get-you-paid\/\">medical collections letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At Power Your Practice, we often write about different ways physicians can prevent medical fraud, but what about the patients?<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/practice-management\/help-your-patients-avoid-medical-identity-theft\/\">We\u2019ve provided a tutorial<\/a> you can give your patients<\/strong> to help them protect their medical identities.<\/p>\n<p>Enhancing the patient experience, improving the overarching health of populations and reducing the per capita costs of healthcare are the three aims of the Institute of Health Care Improvement\u2019s Triple Aim Model. They may seem like lofty goals, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/medical-technology-trends\/achieving-triple-aim-model-health-it-software\/\">health IT has put all three within reach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>CareCloud Blog<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/blog\/aca-health-insurance-exchanges-october-1\/\">Health insurance exchanges<\/a> went into effect on October 1. The exchanges are meant to provide access to affordable private insurance for currently uninsured Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Edwin Miller, CareCloud\u2019s Vice President of Product Management, wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/blog\/edwin-miller-the-year-of-the-healthcare-wonk\/\">a compelling piece on Infocast\u2019s 6th Annual Healthcare Deal Making Summit<\/a> where <strong>he reveals why 2014 will be a particularly challenging year in healthcare IT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>CareCloud donned a pink ribbon to honor the fight against breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Trueba-Rossato, CareCloud\u2019s Events, and Outreach Manager, highlights the five things every MGMA 2013 Conference must do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news this week has undoubtedly been the government shutdown. 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