eClinicalWorks Blog
- 27 September, 2022
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Back to School — for Your Practice, Too!
As Aristotle said long ago, “Well begun is half done.” And there’s no better time to put that ancient saying to work than at the start of a new school year.
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- 20 September, 2022
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That Hospital EHR System Costs Too Much
Many private practices and physician-owned organizations affiliated with hospitals are told they must use a hospital Electronic Health Record (EHR). That is simply not the case.
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- 13 September, 2022
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Keeping an Eye on Patients in Transition
Transition Care Management helps reduce hospital readmissions No one likes going to the hospital; however, getting the care we need sometimes requires making the trip. What shouldn’t be necessary is being readmitted to the hospital because a provider lost track of where a patient was, didn’t check to see what medications they were on, or was too slow to provide necessary follow-up care.
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- 7 September, 2022
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One Month to Go: Come to Orlando and See for Yourself!
eClinicalWorks V12 leads a parade of innovative healthcare IT You don’t often get to start a blog with a pop quiz, so here goes!
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- 30 August, 2022
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Why Usability Is Critical to Healthcare IT
More than six months after the first reports of coronavirus began to circulate, medical providers across the nation largely adjusted to key changes in their workflows. Those changes include the rise of telehealth, stricter sanitation protocols, and prioritizing care to make the best use of resources.
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- 17 August, 2022
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Addressing the Acute Need for Chronic Care Services
Employing effective tools for high-risk, high-need patients The numbers don’t lie: The older we get, the more chronic medical conditions — on average — we accumulate. Yes, there are 90-year-olds who spring out of bed and go hiking or waterskiing, but they are the exception. For most humans, age takes its inevitable toll.
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- 9 August, 2022
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National Health Center Week 2022
Celebrating unbreakable community bonds Chemists will tell you that covalent bonds — which share pairs of electrons between atoms — are the strongest bonds known to science. But as we mark National Health Center Week with the theme “The Chemistry for Strong Communities,” it’s clear that the bonds that unite the nation’s community health centers are perhaps the strongest known to social scientists.
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- 27 July, 2022
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Closing the Gap Between Patients and Their Records
From Tiffin to Coldwater, from Pauling to Upper Sandusky, orthopedic patients in Northwest Ohio are never far from one of the offices of the Orthopaedic Institute of Ohio (OIO). But the more important point is this: No matter which office provides care, the distance between the patient and that patient’s records is essentially zero.
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- 21 July, 2022
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Show Me the Bots! (And the Money)
If you were on a walk and spotted a couple of billion dollars by the side of the road, odds are you would do something about it. But each year, healthcare organizations — hospitals, clinics, and practices — collectively lose billions of dollars to administrative costs, losses that could be avoided with more efficient Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) practices.
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- 12 July, 2022
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Cost & Utilization Explorer: Seeing, Understanding, Acting
The most fundamental difference between modern and medieval medicine isn’t found in the fancy equipment, powerful medications, or lifesaving skills of physicians, nurses, and EMTs. All those things help, but the most critical difference is the ability to see.
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- 5 July, 2022
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Florida is the Perfect Place for Early Birds
eCWNC22 returning live to the Sunshine State! Did you know that folks who register early for conferences enjoy the experience 53% as much as those who register later on or (gasp!) at the last minute?
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- 21 June, 2022
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Dermatology Made Easier This Summer
Summer is officially here, and people around the country will be spending more time outside. We need sunshine in order to stay healthy, but too much of anything can become problematic.
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