Achieving Maximum Productivity and Performance: A Balancing Act for Public Health Departments. Here are three things you should focus on. There are three legs of a stool that every business, practice or department must balance to achieve maximum productivity and performance. Those are Product, Process and People. Balancing and optimally using all three legs […]
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Four Ways to Exchange Data with Community Providers: Understand Your Specific Clinic’s Needs to Find the Right Alternative Over the past several years, and with a push from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) meaningful use Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentives program, there has been an increase in adoption of EHRs. While use […]
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What is workflow and why should you care? Over the past few years, public health agencies have seen ongoing reduction in funding while their operational costs keep going up. Sure, lobbying and educating legislators is an important part of public health agency leadership role. However, in current national environment, at best one can hope to […]
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Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become a very important and integral part of the healthcare system. Despite the initial hesitation to switch to the EHR, overwhelming majority of organizations which have switched to EHR cannot imagine going back to paper. EHRs improve efficiency and increase reimbursements while improving patient care. As providers become more fluent […]
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The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) EHR incentives for eligible entities, like local health departments, are quite easy to get. For Medicaid, Eligible Providers (EPs) (MD, NP or certified midwife, providing direct patient care, qualify) can get the EHR incentives. Each EP can get a total of $63,750 over a period of six […]
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