The outsourcing of comprehensive medical business office services is staged to grow 30% from practices of less than 25 doctors next year.
Read MoreCreeping insurance costs and the popularity of high-deductible plans have created an inflamed uptick in patient payment responsibility. Health insurance deductibles increased 300% on average in the last ten years leaving consumers confused and two thirds of providers waiting over sixty days to collect payments.
Read MoreTwo-thirds of independent practices now deliberately selling out to hospital systems and larger groups or closing down by 2019 as the resource-intensive requirements of MIPS, administrative burdens, and under-optimized technology may make the transition to value-based care too discouraging.
Read MoreSeventy-six percent of physician practices with more than 25 clinicians surveyed are keen to apply their EHR enhancements in functionality, service and value-based payment innovation as of Q2 2016. 1,788 multispecialty Clinics, IPAs and large group practice leaders narrowed down an elite group based on eighteen delving key performance indicators from a shrinking field of less than 50 qualified electronic health record systems.
Read MoreEight in ten independent physician specialty practices have affirmed their confidence in specialty-distinctive electronic health record systems & robust multi-use EHRs with well-constructed specialty modules, as the more detailed aspects of third generation usability come into play and provider connectivity issues persist. Specialists look to end chronic replacements with flexible cloud-based & specialty-driven EHRs tailored to improve financial, workflow, clinical outcomes & satisfaction.
Read MoreFour years after the rush to replace inpatient EHR systems, Black Book crowd-surveyed 1204 hospital executives and 2133 user-level IT staff that withstood at least one broad EHR system switch to grasp if providers got what they bargained for.
Read MorePrice and features are no longer the only driving factors of EHR replacement competition according to nearly 2,200 health IT user responding in a Q4 2015 Black Book survey. Vendors must also provide an overall greater technical support experience after the sales are made to keep customers happy and loyal, but many pass the duty on to outsourcers.
Read MoreAs the EHR replacements, provider consolidations and meaningful use uncertainties come to resolutions this year, the client loyalty spectrum discernibly ranges from those hospitals with high EHR and HIT satisfaction, clinician usability and business analytics, to other hospitals unmistakably stuck with systems nominally operative, trapped with vendors due to huge capital investments, and in deep debt.
Read MoreAs the healthcare delivery industry deals with technology updates and implementations from ICD-10, EHR issues, physician alignment, big data, interoperability, value-based reimbursement reforms, decision support, revenue cycle, and patient marketplace shifts, hospital leaders embark on the major restructuring of hospital technology priorities and staffing alternatives for survival.
Read MoreJoin Catalyst Partners to explore how their strategic partnership program helps healthcare providers and facilities build and operate an intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) business to promote patient safety and create financial opportunities in a challenging healthcare environment.
Read More3,016 primary care practices, including family and general practice physicians, pediatricians, geriatricians and internal medicine doctors, all crowdsourced EHR users, narrowed down an elite group of systems vendors across eighteen probing key performance indicators from a field of over 400 qualified healthcare software firms.
Read MoreThree thousand surveyed EHR users narrowed down an elite group of systems vendors across probing key performance indicators, from a crowded field of over 400 primary care-focused software products. Pediatricians, generalists and family practices identify the EHR products that deliver on early adoption successes: implementation, productivity, outcomes, MU achievement, analytics and connectivity.
Read MoreNearly two thirds of physician practices with more than 25 clinicians surveyed commended the enhancements in functionality, service and innovation with top ranked vendors in Q2 2015. Multispecialty Clinics, IPAs and large group practices narrowed down an elite group of electronic health record systems across eighteen probing key performance indicators from a field of over 400 qualified EHRs.
Read MoreAccording to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, approximately 50 million people in the U.S. suffer from at least one kind of allergy. Allergies that originate from pollen, dust, dander, foods, medications, insects and latex account for most of the major reactions. The organization adds that allergy is listed number five among the leading five chronic diseases in the U.S. In addition, al
Read MoreMach7's Physician & Patient Portal facilitates intelligent image management between enterprises, exchanges, providers and patients
Read MoreBefore joining the Laser + Skin Institute, Dr. Kandula served as Senior Staff Instructor for the Harvard Medical School at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Read MorePractice Management Institute (PMI) is urging physician practices to prepare now for an upcoming compliance enforcement deadline that impacts federal privacy requirements and will carry costly penalties.
Read MoreRS&F, a business consulting and accounting firm based in Owings Mills, and SHR Associates, a healthcare consulting firm based in Annapolis, have joined forces to launch a joint venture called RS&F Healthcare Advisors, LLC (RSFHA).
Read MoreFor the first time in almost a decade, the International Alternative Medicine Conference has established an online presence with a brand new website created by Blue Stingray Digital Ad Agency.
Read MoreNEW ROCHELLE, NY/HOUSTON, TX- Sept. 30, 2012 - The Medical Letter announces a new strategic partnership with NewCrop, LLC to incorporate The Medical Letter's objective drug information into NewCrop's leading electronic prescribing platform.
Read MoreA national study conducted by Catalyst Healthcare Research finds 10 innovative ways to improve the patient experience in the doctor's office.
Read MoreIn the May 2008 edition of the British Journal, "The Lancet", Dr. Arthur Stone and Princeton economist Alan Krueger noted that "men and women were nearly equally likely to find themselves in pain", and that "people with chronic pain also worked l
Read MoreThe Curbside Consult forum has the power to supply quick answers to doctors from their peers, provide a sort of ongoing peer review of resources and be the first resource medical providers turn to when facing the demands of a changing industry.
Read MoreTouch Medix, LLC, a provider of charting solutions and emergency department information systems (EDIS) appoints Stephen Miley, MD, FACEP, a Board Certified Emergency Physician, as Chief Medical Director, Executive Vice President of Development
Read MoreDEPI Staffing conducted a retention survey with some of our clients in September 2009. We asked them to evaluate their staffing trends and retention practices. The first thing we noticed as the responses started pouring in is that retention is the mo
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