Every patient encounter that takes place inside your medical organization should result in new information being recorded. Details of the visit, whether typed into the Electronic Health Record application or spoken and converted to text with built-in speech recognition are added to the EHR. With all this information at your fingertips, the trick is to manage, organize and retrieve the data in a useful way for you and your team. You don’t need to be an IT specialist to appreciate the benefits of using EHR software, let alone how to find the information you need. Becoming more familiar with what is being stored and the ways your team can access it is crucial. Read on for details on how to get the right data from your EHR software.

It makes sense that owners or managers of medical organizations would set up a billing process and then continue to use it over the years without ever analyzing it to see if it could stand some improvement. After all, if the software was working properly after you first implemented it, you may have considered the matter settled. The old adage that if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it comes into play more times than you might imagine in modern medical offices. But software and computer technology will continue to advance, as does our ability to connect with one another over the network and exchange information. Failure to stay on top of such developments and take advantage of them will naturally lead to inefficiencies, relatively speaking. Just because your office seems to be functioning properly, it doesn’t mean that your employees are working at their best capacity. They may be working around the inefficiencies instead of realizing that improved software would help them do their jobs better. In fact, you may determine that now would be a good time to consider installing new software as well as outsourcing your medical billing process to third party experts. Here are five reasons why your medical billing process is inefficient.

As the manager or owner of a thriving medical practice, you know that it is prudent to routinely take time to look at the entire business and see how its processes are integrated. To that end, increasingly sophisticated software offerings are now available to medical practices to help ensure things really are humming along, and you don’t want to miss out on any potentially helpful solutions. Two “off the bat” solutions are systems are electronic health records (EHR) and practice management (PM). Many practices opt for an all-in-one EHR-PM system. Once set up, you have essentially deployed an in-house capability for revenue cycle management (RCM). Adding a patient portal will do wonders for increasing patient engagement and connectivity between practice and patient, and vice versa. With these thoughts in mind, here are four technology trends that indicate a healthy practice.

The following excerpt is from an article found on Beckers Hospital Review. It was written by Kelly Gooch. ------------------------------- Medical practices are always looking for ways to maximize patient care. To achieve this, there are various strategies physicians can use to streamline revenue-related processes, according to the American Medical Association. The AMA said it's important that physicians have a practice management system in place that works best for staff and medical personnel before implementing new processes. Once a medical practice management software is in place, the AMA recommends practices take advantage of these six ways to make revenue cycle management processes more efficient.

As a successful physician, what motivates you to do your best on the job every day? While it’s normal for healthcare professionals to be motivated by how much money they are bringing in, this is typically not their sole incentive. If you’ve been having difficulties staying motivated all day, here are seven tips to help.

You always want to put your best foot forward when it comes to meeting new people, and this is particularly true when it comes to inviting patients into your practice. But when you have an established medical practice that has been doing quite well over the years in terms of revenue as well as patient retention, it can be easy for staff to become complacent.

By now, you already know that deploying an electronic health records or EHR system in your healthcare organization is the key to maximizing time, giving your staff the tools it needs to do their jobs as efficiently as possible.

Only the most foolhardy organization would continue to operate as it does year after year without some kind of ongoing assessment of operations. This is particularly true when it comes to medicine and healthcare providers. The field of medicine is always evolving, as are the means by which we test, assess and treat each patient. If you don’t have a good idea of how patients feel about the service you provide, there’s a chance you are alienating some of them to the point where they might seek treatment elsewhere. What you need to do is gather patient feedback on an ongoing basis. After soliciting information from them, you will go over the results and use the data to improve your practice.

Managing growth may become one of your more interesting challenges as your medical practice becomes ever more successful. As you take on more patients and offer a wider array of RCM services or additional specialists, for example, your revenue expands as well.

The health and stability of the computational and software infrastructure that supports your medical organization is not a subject to take lightly. Applications that are vital to day to day operations must be reliable and fulfill your current requirements as well future needs, such as expandability for when your practice grows in scope and size.