5 Essential Tips to Starting Your Independent Practice
Starting and running an independent medical practice is more viable than it has ever been before, especially when you’re equipped with state-of-the-art technology.
Choosing an integrated EHR & PM
AdvancedMD spends tens of millions of dollars annually to keep current on regulatory changes, such as MACRA, MIPS, Meaningful Use, ICD-10, as well as feature enhancements, functionality, security, and infrastructure of the AdvancedMD software suite. There are three dedicated development tracks for practice management, EHR and patient engagement software. Learn why having an integrated clinical & billing … Continued
Optimizing your practice tasks & workflows
To remain independent, your private practice needs to run like a well-oiled machine, delivering quality patient care while thriving financially as a business. Physicians, front office and back office personnel all play critical roles. Most small practices can’t afford a large staff, so it’s important that those you do employ work as efficiently as possible. … Continued
2016 The Year You Make A Strategic Plan
A new year is a good time to develop a solid strategic plan, one that identifies goals, processes, and the unique needs of your practice. Taking the time to evaluate your administrative, clinical, and financial performance of the past year will help you more effectively chart a course for a prosperous future. Make this year … Continued
How Telemedicine Can Transform Patient Engagement
Telemedicine is an attractive new care model–the growth potential is great, it’s easy to adopt, and so far patients are very happy with it. Telemedicine is proving to be an ideal format for improving patient engagement and is creating a greater demand for services. That’s strong incentive for private practices to embrace this new frontier of healthcare.
5 Key Strategies to Reduce Financial Risk
Patient appointments are the gateway to your practice’s revenue. If scheduling and appointments aren’t managed well, you’re going to have holes in your schedule…and your bank account.
Creating a five star service
Patient turnover threatens the financial stability of private practices. Studies have shown patients rarely leave a practice due to distrust in a physician’s skills, but rather due to frustrations with office procedures and staff. With several economic factors impacting small private practices, fostering loyalty with patients is more important than ever. Physicians must find ways to improve the … Continued
Boost EHR security: 5 features to look for
Choosing an EHR system that has the ability to keep your health records secure is more important than ever. This guide will help you learn the 5 key features you need in an EHR system to ensure top-level security.
How to prepare for an EHR switch
The process of selecting and implementing an EHR system is a major commitment for an independent medical practice. Of course there’s the financial cost, but there is also the time investment, staff training and changes to office processes. But what happens if after all of this you find that the system you chose isn’t meeting … Continued
5 essentials on how to stay independent
It’s harder than ever to run a successful independent medical practice. As value-based reimbursement becomes more common along with the fee-for-service model, in order to receive payment, physicians will need to demonstrate clinical outcomes while providing seamless care.
Top 5 technologies in healthcare for 2015 and beyond
Healthcare has entered into an era where it must compete for the patient’s time and attention. Cloud computing is now a pervasive enabler of most every technology that physicians can and should be leveraging. The cloud is the platform to properly support security, mobility and flexibility to the ever-changing regulatory landscape. The cloud is not … Continued
Need a new EHR for ICD-10?
Verifying that your EHR and practice management bundle (or separate systems) is up for the ICD-10 challenge may be the most important step to ensuring your own compliance. This guide provides 12 critical questions that every private practice must ask its EHR vendor, or risk being left high and dry come October 1, 2015. Your … Continued