How a Digital Lockbox Saves Money and Prevents Fraud By Guest Blogger, Greg Mennegar Vice President, Sales Spectrum Information Services NW, Inc. Despite the strong push for physician practices to go paperless through the adoption of EMR and EHR many are still drowning in paper. In the back office, practices are inundated with patient and …
Read MoreNSIT Releases HIPAA Security Rule Toolkit for Providers HIPAA Security Rule The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule (45 CFR 160, 162, and 164) establishes national standards to protect individuals’ electronic personal health information that is created, received, used, or maintained by a covered entity. The Security Rule requires appropriate administrative, physical, …
Read MoreIntroducing our HIPAA Assessment Seattle, WA (PRWEB) November 29, 2011 There are a growing number of physician practices implementing electronic medical records (EMR) in the Bellevue area. This may be influenced by the meaningful use incentives offered by the government under HITECH Act. To meet the community needs, EMRSOAP introduces a HIPAA Assessment package …
Read MoreCMS Provides Incentive Program Update As of September 30, 2011, more than 114,000 eligible providers and eligible hospitals had registered for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program, and CMS had distributed over $850 million in incentive payments. November 30, 2011 is the last day for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals to register and …
Read MoreE-Prescribing History What is E-Prescribing? E-prescribing, also called electronic prescribing is the electronic transmission of prescription information from the prescriber’s computer to a pharmacy computer. E-prescribing includes two-way transmissions between the point of care and the dispenser. Many Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems have chosen to integrate e-prescribing functionality and is has implications for Meaningful …
Read MoreEMRSOAP releases HIT Glossary Check out the new section of our website under FAQ: Health Information Technology (HIT) Glossary The glossary is intended for anyone looking at healthcare technology and comes across a term that is unfamiliar. This glossary has been organized to provide definitions for today’s healthcare terminology. New definitions will be added as …
Read MoreHow to change HER to EHR in MS Office This is a tutorial how to change HER to EHR in Microsoft Word in Windows version. This is particularly useful for folks in the healthcare IT industry that use the vocabulary frequently. IT is accompanied by picture images to help readers. Now time to get rid …
Read MoreThe new Dragon Speech for Small Practices software is now available on the market for consumers. Nuance, the developer of Dragon naturally speaking products has developed yet another a successful speech recognition solution for medical practices, the Dragon Medical Practice Edition. Dragon has been selected by over 180,000 clinicians worldwide to document directly into the …
Read MoreDemonstration – Practice Fusion EMR Practice Fusion is the fastest growing EMR that physician practices are adopting. While other EMR vendors may charge $40,000 for licensing, installation and $50,000 for hardware upgrades, and possible licensing fees, CEO, Ryan Howard is offering Practice Fusion as a free web-Based solution. Using ads, the company is able to …
Read MoreWatson robot has been tasked to revolutionize the healthcare market. As you may know, the IBM Watson robot featured on Jeopardy earlier this year for its impressive showcase of generating answers from a large volume of unstructured data (raw data, text) and in the natural processing language. Watson is a heavyweight contender, which has sparred …
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