pediatric ehr Tag

30 Jul Decrease the Expense of Patient Statements by Increasing Upfront Payments

Posted at 17:58h in Financial by Rebecca Nace, RHIA

A frazzled mom walks into your pediatric clinic. She approaches the check-in desk, and your receptionist notices dark circles below wet eyes, red from crying, possibly even during the drive to the office. The screaming toddler on the mom’s hip is not so interested in disguising his anguish. He wails in...

16 Jul Key Performance Indicators for Pediatric Practices [On-Demand Webinar]

Posted at 06:22h in Financial by Office Practicum

We all know you can't improve what you don’t monitor. But when it comes to your pediatric practice - do you even know what to monitor? Check out a recording of our educational webinar, Key Performance Indicators for Pediatric Practices, presented by Pediatric Management Institute (PMI) Founder Paul Vanchiere. Webinar Benefits Gain an...

11 Jul How to Attract and Hire Top-Notch Talent

Posted at 06:48h in Clinical, Financial by Mary Ellen Harris, PhD

In order to truly provide top-notch medical care at your pediatric practice, you need an all-star team of professionals working around you. Front desk staff, nurse practitioners, medical billers, the list goes on. A successful medical practice relies on a full staff of talented people. A hiring mistake alone, can...

09 Jul Healthcare’s Roadmap for Payment Assurance: Why It’s All About Where You Keep Your Data

Posted at 15:52h in Financial by Guest Blog

If your payment data is currently dispersed across multiple systems, you might hit a roadblock in your plan for payment assurance. What does your roadmap for payment assurance look like? Use these three checkpoints to analyze where your data might be failing you and how you can improve collection processes by...

25 Jun Well Visit Recalls: Are You Optimizing Care and Payment?

Posted at 13:20h in Clinical, Financial, Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

Preventative care is the cornerstone of pediatrics, yet many practices don’t optimize their well visits. If you are not doing proactive recalls, you are leaving money on the table and your patients are not receiving optimal care. There are several aspects to optimize well visits but your practice must be...

11 Jun Digital Strategies to Drive New Patients to Your Practice [On-Demand Webinar]

Posted at 15:43h in Financial by Office Practicum

Do you get too many emails, app notifications, and social media blasts? So do the parents in your practice. That’s why it’s so hard to get their attention, let alone the attention of prospective patients. Check out the recording of our webinar, “Digital Strategies to Drive New Patients to Your Practice,”...

04 Jun 5 Things You Can Do Today to Market Your Pediatric Practice on Social Media

Posted at 08:35h in Patient Engagement by Alisa Vaughn, CMPE

In the past, excellent patient care was enough to earn word of mouth referrals for pediatric practices. Aside from directory listings, most doctors didn't need to market their practices at all. Parents would simply ask their friends for a doctor recommendation or choose from an insurance company's list of providers....

30 May Why a Pediatric-Specific EHR Matters

Posted at 05:10h in Pediatric EHR by Susan Hannon

Sometimes, you can have too much of a good thing. When it comes to choosing an electronic health record (EHR) solution, less is actually more if you’re in a pediatrics practice. That’s because a well-rounded adult-centric EHR is likely to be less helpful than one specially built for your area...

23 May How an Online Portal Improves Patient Engagement and Satisfaction

Posted at 05:00h in Patient Engagement by Cindy Malek

Online patient portals – or websites connected to a patient’s EHR – can provide tremendous enhancements for pediatric family engagement and satisfaction. On the other hand, online portals can also be one of those offerings some parents argue is good in theory, but not in practice. Busy parents may be...

21 May The Secret to Better Pediatric Billing

Posted at 17:24h in Financial by Gilad Kochman

Do you lie awake at night worrying about your pediatric practice’s billing processes? Are you concerned about what will happen when your reliable, long-standing staff biller decides to retire? For example, who’s going to ensure you’re billing for all services you perform such as every strep test has an accompanying...

19 Apr Still Using Paper Charts? Why Your Pediatric Office Should Adopt an EMR Now.

Posted at 19:05h in Interoperability, Pediatric EHR by Alisa Vaughn, CMPE

In a typical day, how do patient records move through your pediatric office? Your administrative staff pulls files for scheduled patients and creates records for new patients. Your nurse/medical assistant updates those files with each patient’s vitals. Your pediatricians take copious notes as they see each patient. Then, each file...

10 Apr Increase Patient Engagement [On-Demand Webinar]

Posted at 18:07h in Patient Engagement by Office Practicum

You’re invested in your patients' health and well-being, but are they? If not, your clinical outcomes and bottom line may suffer. Check out a recording of our educational webinar, Increase Patient Engagement: Improve Clinical and Financial Outcomes. During this webinar, you’ll learn: What patient engagement is Why it's important for your...

21 Mar Health IT for Pediatric Care: Will the 21st Century Cures Act Move the Needle?

Posted at 19:33h in Clinical, Financial, Interoperability, Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

Since the inception of the HITECH Act in 2009, the major focus of Health IT has been in caring for adult patients and populations. For the past ten years, pediatricians have added our voices to every discussion reminding stakeholders that children are not just little adults, and they have specific...

21 Dec 2019 CMS Changes: What Will Change for Your Practice?

Posted at 17:35h in Clinical, Financial by Office Practicum

I have spoken with many of you about the proposed CMS changes that are scheduled to take place over the next few years. From my perspective, they fall into two categories: what’s happening 1/1/19 and what is anticipated to change in 2021. Regardless of what kind of practice you are...

09 Jul OP Care Plans: Why Each Practice Needs to Be Part of their Own Solution

Posted at 14:36h in Uncategorized by Office Practicum

It’s really rewarding to see so many colleagues realizing the power behind the EHR and embracing it as a robust tool, not just an electronic word document. Creating a note, which reflects the work performed at an office visit, is much of what pediatric team members do every day. However,...

06 Jun Waiting Time and Family Experience

Posted at 17:53h in Clinical, Financial by Office Practicum

Many of us have been working on quality improvement projects in our offices that include improving immunization and well visit rates, reducing the use of unnecessary antibiotics, and other initiatives that improve the care of our patients. But how many of you have embarked on improving the patient and family...

08 May Using Data to Drive Practice Success

Posted at 12:49h in Financial by Office Practicum

I have had the privilege of traveling across the country meeting and speaking with colleagues, and in doing so, I’ve seen a wide variety of pediatric practices. There are a lot of pediatricians who are still under the impression that all they have to do is see patients and practice...

16 Mar Fluoride Varnish: What are you waiting for?

Posted at 20:37h in Clinical by Office Practicum

In celebration of National Children’s Dental Health Month, take a minute to make sure your practice is doing everything it can to promote good oral health to your patients and families. Have you incorporated questions about oral health into your well visit templates? Do you ask about a dental home?...

19 Jan New Years Resolutions for EHR Users

Posted at 20:51h in Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

As we start the new year, many people decide to assess where they are in life and prioritize some positive improvements. I’d like to offer the following New Year’s Resolutions for EHR users:...

12 Dec Improving Well Visit Rates: People, Processes & Technology

Posted at 17:03h in Clinical, Financial, Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

Many of you have read my prior blogs about the importance of well visits to pediatrics. I’ll say it again: as many “simple sick” visits are leaving the office for urgent care, telehealth and other competitive entities, it is crucial that the pediatric medical home owns preventive care. It is...

04 Oct The Value of Professional Meetings

Posted at 18:49h in Clinical, Financial by Office Practicum

I had the pleasure of catching up with many of you at the AAP National Conference and Exhibition in Chicago in September. Pediatricians often ask me...

06 Sep Pediatric Office Screenings and Surveys: Are you using the correct codes?

Posted at 16:03h in Clinical, Financial by Office Practicum

Well visits are becoming increasingly complex as the Bright Futures periodicity schedule changes. Over the past few years, evidence...

08 Aug Caring for Children: A Team Based Sport

Posted at 12:59h in Clinical by Office Practicum

Much has been written about team-based care in the last few years. Proactive outreach to patients and coordinating their care...

11 Jul Where Have All My Patients Gone?

Posted at 16:03h in Clinical, Financial by Office Practicum

If your practice is like mine, you may have noticed unfilled slots in your patient schedule over...

23 Jun Is Your Practice a Medical Home?

Posted at 15:14h in Reporting by Office Practicum

Whether or not you plan to apply for NCQA for Patient Centered Medical Home (PCHM)...

20 Mar Alerts and Pop-ups and Alarms, Oh My!

Posted at 16:48h in Clinical by Office Practicum

I frequently get requests from users about customization of alerts, pop-ups...

14 Feb Vaccine Management: A Win for Patients and Practices

Posted at 17:02h in Clinical, Vaccine Management by Office Practicum

Vaccines save lives. I was going to stop there. For pediatricians, that’s a...

07 Dec Using the Right EHR to Help Your Practice Thrive

Posted at 16:12h in Financial, Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

For more than ten years, early adopters of EHR technology have promoted the power...

10 Nov Pediatrician Inspiration and Advocacy

Posted at 10:50h in Clinical by Office Practicum

Last month I had the privilege of attending the AAP’s National Conference and Exhibition...

13 Oct Practice Transformation

Posted at 12:57h in Patient Engagement by Office Practicum

I just spent two days in Seattle with a group of awesome pediatricians doing fabulous work to transform...

04 Aug Send Your Patients Back to School Protected!

Posted at 16:05h in Clinical by Office Practicum

It’s summertime in your practice, and while you aren’t seeing high volume patients with colds, coughs, and fever, you should still be busy. A successful pediatric practice should...

27 Jun Trade Phone Tag for Electronic Connections

Posted at 10:12h in Patient Engagement by Office Practicum

Staff time spent on the telephone is a huge practice expense and one that can be easily reduced to the satisfaction of all involved. As pediatricians, our patients and their families primarily connect with...

16 May Information = Power

Posted at 10:42h in Clinical, Financial, Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

As we prepare to migrate from a fee-for-service to “value-based payment” model, it is critical that we gather as much information about the care we currently deliver, so we can best prepare for the future. ...

22 Apr Tips for preventing medical errors

Posted at 05:18h in Clinical, Financial by Office Practicum

Did you know that medical errors are one of the leading causes of injury and death in the U.S.? According to a report conducted by the Institute of Medicine, an estimated 98,000 people die in hospitals every year from medical errors that could have been easily avoided. As the leader...

18 Apr Tips for safely securing your EHR system

Posted at 12:27h in Cybersecurity, Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

After presenting your patients with your initiative to take full advantage of electronic health records, it's important to ensure them that all private data and information will be safe and secure in the health information technology system. There are many simple steps you can take to provide risk management principles throughout...

11 Apr Tips for successfully achieving meaningful use

Posted at 05:35h in Reporting by Office Practicum

Once your practice has successfully implemented electronic health records into the new and improved system, it is important to get a grasp on meaningful use. But what exactly does that mean? According to Health IT, meaningful use sets specific goals and objectives that health care professionals need to achieve while using...

29 Mar How to create a successful team for EHR implementation

Posted at 12:51h in Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

Once you've planned your approach to electronic health record implementation and you've organized your practice, you might realize that you don't have enough resources or staff members to successfully adopt this new health information technology system. You may find it in your best interest to hire new staff members or consultants who have...

08 Mar Important technology terms to understand before implementing health IT

Posted at 04:27h in Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

No matter what type of industry your work falls within, every successful business begins with a knowledgeable foundation. That being said, the health information technology industry has a technology-heavy foundation that allowed it to blossom into a successful alternative to paper in the medical world. For some medical professionals who...

04 Mar Understanding the different types of health information technology

Posted at 06:26h in Interoperability, Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

Before deciding to implement health information technology into your practice, it is important to understand exactly what Health IT is...

29 Feb Understanding the basics of EHRs

Posted at 10:48h in Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

If you are interested in implementing electronic health records into your...

22 Feb 6 Common Challenges in EHR Implementation

Posted at 10:44h in Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

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08 Feb 6 lessons learned from EHR implementation

Posted at 06:25h in Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

When it comes to implementing electronic health records, organization is key. EHR implementation...

02 Feb 4 advantages of EHR use

Posted at 11:40h in Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

Imagine taking a vacation and waking up feeling severely ill, or going through an accident that causes you...

27 Jan Steps to take before implementing EHRs

Posted at 07:33h in Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

If you're deciding whether or not to implement electronic health records into your practice, consider the following: "When [EHRs] are well-designed and implemented correctly, they can be a powerful force for reducing errors, lowering costs, raising quality of care, and increasing doctor and patient satisfaction," according to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of...

20 Jan 6 factors for implementing EHRs successfully

Posted at 04:29h in Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

The use of electronic health records by physicians and other health care providers has led to a number of positive improvements in patient safety over time, according to a study by the Research Triangle Institute. While this advancement in health information technology has been proven to improve the quality and...

12 Jan Evidence proves health information technology provides patient safety

Posted at 11:02h in Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

A recent study by the Research Triangle Institute concluded that advances in health information technology can improve the quality and safety of patients. Health information technology has been used in health care systems all across the U.S. It has gathered both negative and positive attention in regard to if the systems can...

08 Jan Top 5 trends in telemedicine

Posted at 04:52h in Clinical, Pediatric EHR by Office Practicum

2016 is here, which means another year of advancements in technology all over the world. For physicians and other medical and health care professionals, it's best to look ahead at what's in store for the medical world. The future of health information technology is now. Telemedicine technologies are quickly evolving, promising...

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