eClinicalWorks Blog
- 21 June, 2019
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A little extra help during pregnancy for moms-to-be
Mothers-to-be have always turned to their own mothers, friends, and their doctors for advice during pregnancy. Even in our tech-savvy age, women still reach out to those who have shared their experiences.
Continue Reading- 19 June, 2019
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Population Health Webinar – Quality Improvements for Healthcare Practices
Healthcare organizations have a significant opportunity to improve the outcomes with the advent of innovative delivery and payment models tapping into the advances in technology and its adoption. To do this, organizations need a solution.
Continue Reading- 18 June, 2019
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healow Insights – A Value-Based Revolution
Zalipie is a village in Poland with a population of 743 people. Vibrantly colored flowers are painted on many of the residents’ one-floored cottages and museum. As a tourist, if you miss the last bus, you’re six hours away by foot from your starting point in Tarnow. All that, and Polish may not be your first language.
Continue Reading- 14 June, 2019
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20 Years of Growth and Success
Twenty years after setting out on our mission of improving healthcare together, eClinicalWorks is not just surviving, but thriving. The numbers tell part of our success story: From five employees in the spring of 1999, we now have more than 5,100, and are continuing to seek out the best talent to strengthen our many teams.
Continue Reading- 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.
Continue Reading- 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.
Continue Reading- 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.
Continue Reading- 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.
Continue Reading- 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.
Continue Reading- 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.
Continue Reading- 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.
Continue Reading- 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.
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