Simple and Secure Messaging for Your Whole Practice
Long gone are the good old days of pagers and fax machines to help doctors and practices communicate (thank goodness). With the recognition of patient privacy needs and advancements in technology, there are now secure electronic options for messaging. Which should you choose? What do you really need? Privacy Is the Priority Providers and staff […]
Discharge Planning: Arrange Patient Followup at the Point of Care and Become the Practice Everyone Talks About
In the practice of medicine no two worlds are farther apart than the inpatient and outpatient ones. There is a true disconnection between the goings-on in the hospital and the support staff back at the office. Unfortunately, this gap often leads to loss of patient follow up, suboptimal care, and in certain instances, hospital readmissions. […]
No More Missed Charges: Work Smarter Not Harder
You work hard as a medical provider taking care of patients. There are the countless hours interacting with nurses and families. Then comes the documentation, which seems to get more demanding with each passing year. To not receive compensation for your work is not an option. Yet somehow we have processes in place that do […]
Enough With All of the Paper: Mobile Charge Capture Will Change Your World
The process of rounding at the hospital has been paper-based since the beginning of time. Providers print a list of patients, fold it neatly into their pocket, and proceed to venture from floor to floor of each hospital they cover. Along the way they diligently collect paper facesheets containing patient demographics and insurance information, once […]
Provider Efficiency Means More Time with Patients: Instant Quality of Care Improvements
Medical providers have been faced with the harsh reality of reduced time with direct patient care. The transition has been gradual, with documentation and clerical requirements supplanting time spent on history and physical exam. The current paradigm dictates that if it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen. Also, without adequate documentation, getting paid for your work […]
Bringing Workflow Software To Your Practice: It Is Not Impossible
Just the thought of change makes us groan. We are fine. Please do not disrupt everything. It is human nature to protect what is perceived to be working. Doctors and medical practices are no different. We know our processes are broken and antiquated. So why not revamp them? Why is it easier to kick the […]
Modernize the Way You Round and Simplify Your Life
Old habits are hard to break. Whether it be something as serious as quitting smoking, something less serious like biting our nails, or something seemingly easy like cutting down on junk food, habits are ingrained in the way we live our lives, so breaking them – stopping them altogether, or adjusting the way we live […]
You Do Not Need an Army to Manage Your Inpatient Census
Practices that split their time in the office and hospital have to figure out how to manage the inpatient census. It is a complex process, an ever-moving target. Too often the non-clinician office staff are called upon to help manage operations, and coordinating hospital rounds for the providers is no exception. When In Doubt Give […]
Provider Time Is Precious: Maximize Productivity for Your Rounding Doctors
One of the most frequent complaints from practicing physicians is the erosion over the past 20 years of time spent with patients. Direct patient care now only accounts for 30% of total provider time. So, what’s the other 70%? Charting and clerical work. And for the doctors rounding at multiple facilities, throw in driving time […]
Organize Your Practice: Rounding Workflow Management
Managing hospital rounding is completely different from seeing patients in the office. Outpatient medicine doesn’t have many moving parts. You have a schedule – you see your patients – the end. Inpatient medicine is a mess. There is no schedule. You and your partners need to figure out who is going to round and where. […]
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HybridChart Continues to Expand by Adding New Partners
As the medical landscape continues to evolve, so does HybridChart. We are dedicated to improving connectivity, interoperability and modernizing healthcare. HybridChart is thrilled to add two new partners to our ever-expanding list of strategic partners, which gives you scalable connections for a better user experience. To see our official press release, click here. To learn […]
HybridChart Announces Integration with PointClickCare
HybridChart is thrilled to announce it’s partnership with PointClickCare, the leader in post-acute care EHR software. Both HybridChart and PointClickCare have a shared mission in improving interoperability among medical systems, and now, this partnership offers the missing piece in the medical informatics supply chain, from point-of-care to claim submission. Providers benefit from the streamlined workflow, […]
Your Practice Needs Analytics to Compete. But First You Need to Make This Critical Change.
This is the time for change. Wanted or not, medicine has evolved and adapted. Doctors are finally looking at their daily lives and are seeking out ways to make it easier. Desire for improvement seems to be driven by one part battle fatigue, one part enlightenment. We healthcare providers are now asking “Why? Why do […]
Rethinking Everything: Coronavirus Pandemic
Uncertainty has become the new reality. America and the world are struggling to cope with the impact of an infectious pandemic. All aspects of normal life have been affected, forcing us to take hard looks at behaviors that were previously felt to be innocuous. As a practicing physician, I recognize the challenge of providing care […]
Secure Messaging: Three Blogs You Need to Read Now
Secure messaging in the practice of medicine has become commonplace. Adhering to federal privacy laws has become a priority among physicians and healthcare organizations. Working these tools into the typical workflow for the average medical provider is not always easy. Check out three blogs that provide a detailed overview of secure messaging features, myths and […]
Charge Capture: Three Blogs You Need to Read Now
Mobile charge capture has become a popular tool to improve physician efficiency when rounding on hospitalized patients. Allowing doctors to submit charges at the point-of-care eliminates the need to carry around billing sheets and encourages timely submission of charges. This has led to improved charge accuracy and increases in revenue due to reductions in missed […]
Five Unexpected Benefits of Using HybridChart
I spent several years working as a Medical Assistant in a Cardiology clinic. It was interesting and rewarding work, but it had its challenges. One of the biggest was keeping the doctors on schedule as much as possible. One electrophysiologist who I worked with on occasion was so notoriously talkative that we developed a secret […]
Security Risks to Medical Practices in 2020
In 1992 I was the coolest kid on my block for a day. My dad, who always wanted the latest and greatest technology, had just brought home our first cordless phone. It was white with an extendable antenna. I brought my friends by after school to show it off, and one-by-one they called home on […]
Five Myths About Secure Messaging in Healthcare
Effective healthcare is a team sport, and that requires communication. Texting is an excellent way to communicate, particularly when the team is busy and on-the-go. Rather than chasing each other to find a moment to connect, team members can reply when they have the time. Texting in healthcare presents unique security challenges, however. Patient Health […]
Frequently Asked Questions About Secure Messaging
Effective healthcare delivery requires an extraordinary amount of coordination, often involving multiple facilities and platforms. With everyone moving in different directions, it’s critical to have an easy way to communicate that’s also safe and HIPAA compliant. Secure messaging can help your practice accomplish this task, and we’ll break down some of the most common questions […]
Avoid the Wall of Shame: How a Software Rounding Solution Can Protect You and Your Practice from HIPAA Violations
When the subject of HIPAA violations comes up, it can be easy to focus on the most egregious violations. Consider former UCLA cardiothoracic surgeon Huping Zhou, who was fired from his job and proceeded to illegally access the medical record over three hundred times. He accessed the records of co-workers, including his boss, and several […]
Time’s Up: MBI Numbers Are Here
As of January 1, 2020, Medicare will not accept claims unless they are submitted with an MBI. MBIs are the new Medicare patient ID numbers. MBI stands for Medicare Beneficiary Identifier. These numbers are replacing Health Insurance Claim Numbers (HICNs), which were most commonly social security numbers. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) […]
Improving Charge Capture in Your Practice: Five Strategies for Administrators
Practice administrators and providers face many challenges together, from patient satisfaction to employee turnover to liability concerns. Revenue cycle management is a major one. If providers see patients in the hospital or other facilities as well as in the clinic, the challenge of managing revenue properly is compounded by the need for effective charge capture. […]