EMR Dictation

Henry Ford once said “don’t find a fault, find a remedy”.  Unfortunately many clinics just have a long list of “things faulty” with their practices, but no solutions in sight.  These faults are unlike the geologic faults which cause sudden, violent earthquakes; but are more akin to the many silent killers which eventually take their toll on the human body.  This seems like divine justice, since we are after all   Read More ...

Innumerable Medical Coding and Medical Billing Oversight Errors  It is quite well-known that apart from the innumerable medical coding and medical billing oversight errors that medical practices usually oblige the insurance carriers with, a significant tool that the carriers themselves have conjured up to reduce reimbursements is “code bundling.”  CMS, BlueCross Blueshield, you name it, every one of them will more often than not have guidelines to downcode your claims.    Read More ...

Choice is a good thing but sometimes it can lead to endless confusion! Most medical practices are making the switch to electronic medical record as it could auger well for their practice in the long run. But the menu card is much too long and to make it worse, in a language that most of us don’t understand. There are the web based emrs that are not fussy but not   Read More ...

A lot of ink has been spilt about physicians morphing into save businessmen. There are patients complaining, and crying foul about doctors who hardly have enough time to talk to them. But physicians have a reason to complain too. They feel that the deck is staked against them, and would give an arm and a leg to avoid administrative and financial hassles. “They didn’t teach this at medical school!” Is   Read More ...

A thought that scares physicians more than an approaching epidemic, is the loss or misuse of medical data. Patient demographics, physician details and information about the medical practice, are sensitive records and a small slip up can lead to major mayhem. But with cloud computing being the order of the day and security features that are almost foolproof, exchanging and sharing medical data is much safer than a decade ago.   Read More ...

Survey A 2004 survey of a group of physicians from the state of Massachusetts disclosed the disturbing fact that nearly half of them were utterly convinced that their incomes were not proportionate to the man-hours spent at their practices; and thus opined that other lesser professionals were able to earn more, relatively speaking. Practice Management System/EMR This would not surprise an expert from the field of health economics; who would be well   Read More ...

There are few industries that have changed and evolved, as much as the medical transcription industry, over the last few years. We will have a closer look at regulations, norms and technological advances that have impacted the medical transcription industry and how it could affect the relationship between a doctor in downtown New York and a medical transcriber in the Philippines, or, the hotbed of the medical transcription industry, India. Electronic   Read More ...

Ever since the announcement of federal stimulus for usage of EMRs in February 2009,  HITECH incentives have become part and parcel of the medical transcription service  industry.   The fact is, not all physicians and practices had taken it seriously to begin with; but with 2011 being the year in which the first designated payments will be made; the topic has held center stage in many a discussion between a client   Read More ...

If the US Healthcare Industry was compared to the City of Gotham, then it is interesting to ponder as to what role one would ascribe to the phenomenon of EMR in it.  Is it akin to the forceful vigilante Batman, who watches over the city, or is it Two-Face, the villain who starts out as a good guy, but then ends up being an abomination.  Or still worse, is it   Read More ...

Living and working patterns have been evolving over the ages along with changes in technology; which has finally resulted in today’s men and women leading much more fulfilling lives.  This has been possible because technology has had a positive effect on efficiency at the workplace, and it is no secret that that an intelligent human is a happier one too, being able to prioritize his tasks and be there in   Read More ...