Fred Pennic

This post is sponsored by Wellcentive As your clients are preparing for risk-based, outcomes-based reimbursement, you are realizing your firm's service lines need to strategically align with your clients’ emerging clinical and financial needs. Meanwhile, you may have noticed that your clients’ demand for EHR implementation support has declined, as EHR transitions likely peaked more than 12 months ago.  So, where to go from here?
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Practice Fusion, the country’s largest physician-patient community, and Emdeon Inc., a leading provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, are teaming up to offer automated health plan eligibility checks in the Practice Fusion EHR.  When scheduling a patient visit through the Practice Fusion EHR, medical professionals will be able to check that patient’s health plan information electronically via the Emdeon network, which will
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On January 1, 2014, a key provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 went into  effect, requiring healthcare providers across the country to adopt and demonstrate “meaningful use” of electronic medical records (EMR) in order to maintain their existing Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement levels. Many healthcare providers are finding that adopting wireless mobile solutions are a must-have to more accessible and updated EMRs and streamlined workflow processes. The decision
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Siemens case study highlights five best practices and lessons learned for successfully launching a hospital patient portal. In implementing its hospital patient portal, Main Line Health’s goal was to create a one-stop portal for its 10,000 plus employee health system. With four acute-care hospitals, several outpatient facilities, a physical medicine and rehab hospital and a drug and alcohol treatment center, Main Line Health needed a solution that could quickly relay information from
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