HybridChart: A Game-Changer for Medical Practices’ Administrative Tasks
Doctors are buried under mountains of paperwork and administrative tasks, leaving them with limited time for direct patient care. Despite the advancements in electronic medical records, processes such as hospital charge capture and census management still require manual recording, leading to a significant amount of time being spent on paperwork. A recent survey found that […]
Alleviate the Fear of Hospitals: Keep Your Patients from Getting Lost in the Shuffle
There’s a long and menacing-sounding word with which you may be unfamiliar: nosocomephobia. It’s defined as an intense fear of hospitals, and even the bravest souls likely experience some form of this phobia upon admission. The prospect of a hospital stay, we can agree, is an emotional experience for all patients – fears, phobias, stress, […]
Charge! Getting Paid Doesn’t Have to Be a Zero-Sum Game
Unless you are making a purposeful contribution to charitable good works, it’s likely that you are not intending to work for free. Not getting compensated for your work is not only unfair, but it’s a dealbreaker when you consider the cost of turning on the lights, paying your staff, covering your malpractice insurance – and […]
Buried Under Paper: Physicians Digging Out from an Avalanche of Paperwork
The average American uses 700 pounds of paper per year – a startling fact for anyone who has ever attempted to lift such a hefty load. For doctors who literally live and die by the sheet and ream, they often feel as if they’re actually carrying the weight of that paperwork on their shoulders. Each […]
Scaling (Down) the Mountain: Reduced Paperwork Equals Gained Time
Does it feel like you are – quite literally – buried under mountains of paperwork these days? You’re not alone: Despite the “epic” (with a small AND capital e) evolution of electronic medical records, you’re still eyeball-deep in the kinds of administrative and menial tasks that keep you from pursuing your passion – healing patients! […]
Why Old Hospital Rounding Practices are a Hard Habit to Break
Old habits are hard to break – which is why it’s amazing to behold how much abuse we’ll sign on for in the interest of keeping the status quo. Though one could argue that the very adoption of the iDevice – the one in your hand right now, likely – represents the embrace of a […]
Breaking the Rounding Habits of Old Need Not Be an Impossibility
When it comes to habits, scientists have found something alarming: It can take up to nine months to break an old habit. Though it can be far less for recently acquired habits, for those proclivities that have been ingrained to the point that they’re part of our muscle memory, it can be an arduous task […]
Winning the Inpatient Census Battle Need Not Be All Consuming
Your productivity is under assault – mountains of paperwork are raining down on your practice, creating a barrier that’s standing between you and your passion for patient care. And there, atop the blockade, is the ultimate insult – inpatient census management, which stretches out like barbed wire. This continuing battle to manage your hospital-bound responsibilities […]
Making the Most of Each Minute: How to Maximize Productivity for Rounding Doctors
The ticking of the clock can represent both an opportunity and a struggle for today’s practicing physicians. The romantic view of a doctor’s role as a healer has been replaced with a much harsher reality: Mountains of paperwork, hours of data entry, and a struggle to reconcile the need to see patients with the administrative […]
Hospital Rounding, Made Simple: A New Approach to Workflow Management
Mention the phrase “hospital workflow management” to most physicians, and a wave of panic sets in. Between the unknowns of census management, the spotty nature of charge capture, and the dearth of software to manage the delicate dance that is hospital rounding, it’s easy to understand the instinct to “take two aspirin” and complete rounds […]
Work Together as a Team: HIPAA Compliant Handoffs for Busy Practices
Inpatient medicine is unique. Unlike the singular relationship between patient and provider in the office, hospitalized patients are often cared for by a team of doctors and APPs, sometimes changing on a daily basis. How are these providers to relay information to each other? With each day there is another chapter of a patient’s hospital […]
HybridChart Partners with athenahealth
HybridChart is thrilled to announce its partnership with athenahealth, Inc., joining the company’s Marketplace program. As part of the athenahealth® Marketplace, the EVOLVE product by HybridChart is a newly integrated application now available to athenahealth’s growing network of healthcare providers. Using EVOLVE, physicians rounding at hospitals or other facilities can now easily capture charges at […]
