How The Pandemic Changed Clinic Staffing Author: Sara N. Frye, OD, MPH, FAAO In 2019, healthcare spending grew for the fourth consecutive year. Specifically,
The Role of the Clipboard in EHR Software Electronic health records (EHR) systems have become essential for any medical practice to organize and centralize patient
As 2015 comes to an end, many late-adopter providers are scrambling to become EHR compliant. In the interest of ensuring the majority of practices deploy
In a 2019 PwC Health Research Institute survey, people were interviewed and asked the question, “What do you want from your health care provider?” Respondents
We’ve all asked ourselves the question: “What did we do before smartphones?” Now more than ever, our daily lives revolve around these increasingly powerful, not
One basic way to prescribe an appropriate treatment is to gauge how much pain the patient is in. What about your own pain? Have you
For every half-hour spent on patient exams, doctors spend about an hour organizing, editing, and reviewing the patient’s associated EHR documentation. That effectively makes the
We all recognize that mobile devices and their usage has exploded in the past several years, but how has mobile been adopted in the healthcare
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) comes into full swing in 2017. With only a few months left in the year, providers need
When a new technology gets introduced in a medical practice, it’s sure to affect a lot of different people. In the case of EHR mobile
Chapter 1: There Has Got to Be a Better Way It’s 8:34 pm on a Wednesday night. All the patients have left. The clinic is
While EHR vendors have made admirable strides to improve physicians’ experiences with using their software, providers still aren’t satisfied with the systems. Greenway Health’s flagship
Pulmonary Associates of Mobile, AL has integrated a new EHR documentation solution into their practice, leading to monthly savings of roughly $1,000 per physician. The
Mobile EHR apps save doctors and other professionals in a medical practice tons of time on patient documentation. That has some qualitative benefits, like spending
Patients can’t stand when their doctors are distracted. According to them, the best doctors are the ones who truly listen and involve them in their
Providers are often very unsatisfied with the amount of time they spend using EHRs, relative to the time they spend with patients. If providers spend
Physician productivity is a focus across all medical practices. There are a hundred different things that physicians can do with extra time and we know
Physician burnout is emotional exhaustion experienced by those in the healthcare industry. Much of it stems from overwhelming amounts of work and tasks to complete,
