Five Reasons Digital Charge Capture Is Worth It
If you’re a physician or advanced practice provider, you’re already inundated with medical software. If you’re still rounding and capturing charges with paper, you may be wondering why it’s worth making a switch to yet another digital solution. Here are five reasons you should consider it. Track Things in One Place If you’re rounding at […]
Healthcare Needs Physician Innovators
The medical field continues to lag behind other industries in terms of process improvement, adoption of modern workflows, and information technology. Physicians and other medical professionals focus their attention on the care of patients, dedicating their lives to the pursuit of knowledge, which could prevent or cure disease. Advancements in business process, clinical documentation, and […]
Physicians Should Round Smarter, Not Harder
Healthcare may be one of the very few industries in which you don’t immediately get paid for the work or service provided. Rather, it can be days, weeks, or even months before payment is actually received for work completed. And that’s if rounding physicians remember to submit the charges. Missed charges mean lost revenue and […]
WHY Practice Automation Improves Patient Care and Safety
With all the changes in healthcare, imagine what these disruptions do to physicians and ultimately the care they provide to patients. Most medical students dream of healing the sick and providing preventative care and recommendations to improve patient outcomes. When reality hits and providing care is lost in a massive sea of clerical work, an […]
Pop-Ups and Inbox Messages and Data, Oh, My!
Early in my clinical applications career, we were wading through Meaningful Use Stage 2. It was painful for all concerned. Perhaps one of the biggest associated challenges we had to work through was pop-up fatigue. This culminated when we rolled out an important part of meeting MU2 – a Clinical Decision Support tool. The CDS […]
TOP 5 PRIORITIES for the 5 Months Left in 2019: HEALTHCARE LEADERS Need to Prioritize These Items NOW
Focus on your PEOPLE Your number one priority if you are sitting in the C-Suite is taking care of your PEOPLE. Wait. What? You may be thinking, “Shouldn’t patients always come first? “I disagree. What many top leaders mistakenly do is alienate themselves from their people. And, in front of the line is the medical […]
Telehealth can Reduce Healthcare Costs and Increase 1:1 Time with Your Patient
According to Definitive Health’s 2019 Annual Healthcare Trends Survey: 38% of Hospital Executives reported reducing operating expenses was their number one priority for 2019. The challenge is….how do we effectively reduce costs while at the same time, not compromise patient care? I believe the answer is getting smarter at HOW and WHERE we provide great […]
Want to Lower Readmissions? Do These 6 Things Now.
Patients are getting lost between the in-patient and out-patient world. This results in higher readmissions, sicker patients, and skyrocketing healthcare costs. Today, on average, the national rate for 30-day all-cause readmission is almost 15% (see Figure 1 below). Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and […]
Competence is a Ladder
How Understanding the Four Stages of Competence Can Improve the Way You Learn and Teach In 2004, I started the University of Arizona’s Paramedic program. It was an intense program by any standard – sixty-four credit hours and hundreds of clinical hours in the space of nine months. Despite a history of being of good student for whom academics came easily – or maybe because […]
Chaos and Disconnections: Modern Healthcare in America
Healthcare has advanced in leaps and bounds over the past two decades. From imaging to robotics to novel pharmaceuticals to medical devices – we have seen innovation pave the way for the potential of better patient care. Yet with all of this forward thinking, the mechanics of practicing medicine have remained fragmented and inefficient. What […]
Overcoming the Complexity of Interoperability
For years, clinic practices, hospitals, surgery centers, urgent care, assisted living, nursing homes, etc., have operated in silos. You’re probably thinking, “Tell me something I don’t know!” Here we are in the era of technology, where there is an app for everything, and we still cannot track patients as they flow throughout our community healthcare […]
Are You Placing Yourself AT RISK for Getting Fined? 4 Things you Can Do NOW to Protect YOU and YOUR PRACTICE
Officials state that small scale breaches of privacy often cause the most harm. According to the ProPublica Report, violations that expose the health details of just a patient or two are “proliferating nationwide”. For a full list of HIPAA breaches and fines, you can visit OCR’s Breach Portal. Doctors, PAs, CNPs, and other providers who […]
TOP 5 Reasons for Clinical Practices to GO PAPERLESS in 2019
Going paperless is not just simply adopting an Electronic Medical Record. This is just the first step, as your practice likely manages a ton of paper in other areas. Paper truly impedes the overall goal of having an integrated and collaborative healthcare team. Many employees prefer paper. You can touch it, refer to it, and […]
Purposeful Rounding with Automated Charge Capture
Rounding with a purpose. Interesting,…tell me more. Heavy caseload. Multiple hospitals. Sick patients—some, very high risk. Long hours. Exhausted. Missed dinners. No relief in sight. Fast forward. You adopt a mobile charge capture solution that automatically sends charges to your biller and billing staff because missed charges mean lost revenue – for the work you […]
Charge Capture and Modern Rounding Solutions
I remember the days when writing “Agree with above” in the paper chart was enough to satisfy the clinical documentation gods. Those were simpler times. A modern clinical practice has become more complicated – not just with documentation requirements. Demands on medical providers who are caring for an aging population have increased exponentially. Balancing office […]
Hospital Charge Capture Best Practices for Doctors
Most specialist doctors spend their days solving complex health problems on a fixed time budget, with limited resources and inefficient tools. Ironically and stunningly, they spend more time at a computer than they do with their patients. Imagine a world where physicians spend less time on the process of seeing patients and more time with […]
Health Futures—Taking Stock in You with Dr. Greg Sanders Host Bob Roth
On Friday, November 23rd, Dr. Sanders had the opportunity to sit down with Bob Roth and discuss HybridChart and the state of healthcare in America. Health Futures—Taking Stock in You invites healthcare innovators and leaders to participate in their radio talk show airing LIVE on Fridays at noon. Bob, the host and managing partner of […]
Dos and Don’ts of Data Management for Healthcare Administrators
In the age of big data, an influx of information is now available. Healthcare administrators now have to handle not just electronic health records (EHRs), but also data from mobile apps, health wearables and even social media. That’s why it pays to know what to do with such a vast amount of information. So with […]
Health Futures—Taking Stock in You with Dr. Greg Sanders
Host Bob Roth Last Friday, November 23rd, Dr. Sanders had the opportunity to sit down with Bob Roth and discuss HybridChart and the state of healthcare in America. Health Futures—Taking Stock in You invites healthcare innovators and leaders to participate in their radio talk show, airing LIVE on Fridays at noon. Bob, the host and […]
Don’t GO BROKE with Poor Charge Capture Processes
Last month, I wrote about how physicians in America are at risk of financial collapse. While I am not trying to dwell on doomsday theories, there are justifiable concerns. And quite frankly, I am worried. I am worried about the state of healthcare in America. I am worried that excellent physicians are losing their autonomy […]
The One Way to Improve Patient Loyalty for Your Practice
Keeping patients loyal to your practice or medical facility often is a challenge. As the insurance industry has changed with patients now taking on more share of the cost of healthcare, price is a factor that has transformed patients into customers that are willing to switch providers for the right price. But the one way […]
Health Information (Mis)Management
Over the past couple of decades, without question, technology has transformed healthcare and medicine across the world. It could even be called the “driving force” behind improved care, treatment options, and patient outcomes. But, even with all the advancements, tools, software and technology, the healthcare system as a whole continues to operate in silos, which […]
Why Physicians in America are AT RISK FOR GOING BROKE
According to data drawn from the AMA’s Physician Practice Benchmark Surveys, 47.1 percent of physicians are practice owners. The same percentage of physicians are employed, while 5.9 percent are independent contractors. (May 31, 2017) Employed versus independent physician…the pendulum continues to swing and industry experts agree: this is worrisome and a very slippery slope. For […]
What to Look for When Choosing Care Coordination Software
There’s no shortage of care management software vendors out there, each emphasizing different strengths. We’ve come across a lot of articles about what software features to avoid, but relatively few about what should be part of the package. Here are five items we believe virtually all practices need in their their care coordination software […]