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. […]

Mind the Gap: How Reconciliation is Essential to Effective Charge Capture

Those of us who work in medicine all know this classic adage: “If you didn’t write it down, it never happened.” We typically think about this as it relates to documentation of care in the medical record, but it can apply to charge capture too. Charge capture software solutions offer a way to not only […]

The Importance of Charge Capture Software

In modern medicine, software is everywhere. Practice management systems, secure messaging tools, risk-score calculator apps, and the behemoth that we all love to hate – the EHR. It’s exhausting. So, why should you add yet another thing in the mix by using charge capture software? Here are five reasons charge capture software is an important […]

Risky Business

Going home from the hospital can be dangerous. Consider the story of Joyce Oyler, who was a high-risk cardiac patient. Despite having access to home health care, she died after being given a daily prescription of medication that, while named similarly to the medication she was supposed to be taking, was not correct and ultimately […]

Doctors Driving Change

Physician burnout is a real phenomenon. It has been talked about a lot recently, conjuring up images of tired doctors who are battle-fatigued by the daily grind of practicing medicine. Some feel that burnout is a result of the immense responsibility that comes with caring for other human beings, while others focus on the demanding […]

Modern Charge Capture Defined

Do you remember the movie The Net? It was released in 1995, and while it’s a thriller with plenty of villains and daring escapes, the part I remember most is the opening scene. Sandra Bullock orders pizza. Online. If you’re under 25 you may be wondering what the big deal is, but in 1995 this […]

Planning Ahead: Tips & Tricks for Proactive Discharge and Hospital Follow-Up

Many of us have had the experience of being or knowing a patient who’s being discharged from the hospital with a stack of papers full of generic and often unhelpful advice. Buried in there somewhere are usually instructions for follow-up, sometimes for more than one doctor. About 75% of patients go home after they leave […]

Communication Breakdown

When you’re rounding, how do you communicate patient status updates with your colleagues? We can all agree that regular texting would be the easiest option, but that’s not secure enough. CMS issued a memo clarifying what’s permissible in 2017, stating “All providers must utilize and maintain systems/platforms that are secure, encrypted, and that minimize the […]

Insider Tips and Tricks for Effective Charge Capture

Charge capture is one of those necessary evils for rounding physicians. The important focus is on patient care, but you and your staff need to be paid for the work you do. Here are four insider tips and tricks to make capturing charges more effective. Don’t Wait Have you ever found yourself sitting in your […]