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5 June, 2019
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3 Ways That Telehealth Is Improving Healthcare

Telehealth provides convenient care for patients and offers healthcare professionals a more efficient and effective way to treat them. July 1996. It’s 100 degrees Fahrenheit with a broken air conditioner in your car. Work starts in five minutes, and you slam on the breaks two inches away from the rusting Nissan Maxima in front of you.

30 May, 2019
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We Need Your Help! #eCWNC19 Call for Presenters

Big Sur is the lone health center that offers healthcare for a hundred miles of California coastline. In the winter of 2016-17, mudslides tore apart the environment – cutting off the community from the rest of the world.

29 May, 2019
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Is Urgent Care the New Primary Care?

If asked what a healthcare revolution looks like, many people might say sweeping legislative reforms, new technologies, and breakthrough cures for cancer.

20 May, 2019
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3 Ways to Prepare for the Future of ASCs

The first Ambulatory Surgery Center was opened in 1970 in Phoenix, Arizona, by Dr. Wallace Reed and Dr. John Ford, two doctors who believed they could provide a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to the hospital.

2 May, 2019
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4 Ways to Reduce Physician Burnout With eClinicalWorks

Not all illnesses are visible. Physician burnout is a long-term stress reaction marked by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a lack of a sense of personal achievement. A 2019 report revealed that 44% of doctors are burned out.

1 May, 2019
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Gauging Healthcare Risk: From Antiquity to HCC

In 2004, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services introduced Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) coding. Evaluating patient risk is as old as medicine itself. As early as the fifth century BCE, notes a 2011 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Hippocratic tradition focused on the prevention of disease through diet and exercise.

25 April, 2019
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MACRA/MIPS: What’s New for 2019?

Can you believe that it’s been three years? Three years since MACRA ended the Sustainable Growth Rate formula for clinician payment and established a quality payment incentive program. The goal: To create a new way to reward eligible clinicians based on performance and health outcomes, rather than volume.

17 April, 2019
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TCM: From Post-It to Proactive

Matt Cady, Chief Innovation Officer at Florida’s Adult Medicine of Lake County, says that before his practice began using eClinicalWorks to track patients moving among care settings, they had a system in place: Post-It® Notes and spreadsheets.

12 April, 2019
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Staying Safe: Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns

In 1968, Dr. Joel J. Nobel, a surgeon at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Hospital, warned administrators that a hospital defibrillator wasn’t working. That same week, a 4-year-old patient died because of the same device.

12 April, 2019
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HEDIS: Keeping Snowbirds’ Data from Flying Away

When Florida medical practices talk about snowbirds, they aren’t talking ornithology. They are referring to the large subset of patients who spend the winter in the Sunshine State and scoot back North in the spring. Such patients pose one of the thorniest problems in medicine because keeping track of their health — from the specialists they have seen to whatever medications they are taking — can be a real challenge.

9 April, 2019
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HCC: A Coding Tool for an Age of Value-Based Medicine

What kind of medical practices need an advanced tool for determining patient risk, projecting the likelihood of adverse health events, and processing each patient with the highest possible degree of specificity in coding for reimbursements?

5 April, 2019
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CCM: From Zero to 800 Patients in Just 10 Months

Maximizing their clinical effectiveness while holding down costs is never easy, but for today’s medical practices, one sure guide is to follow the spending. And the evidence points overwhelmingly to one area — chronic medical conditions.

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