This week we all sprung ahead to Daylight Savings Time. Has your body figured it out yet? Surprisingly I've been getting up earlier this week than normal. I guess that small of a change didn't affect me so much.
There are many more things going on in these changing times of health care. You're got proposed health care reform, PQRI measures being implemented, and of course the ARRA Program encouraging providers to consider EHR adoption.
Since I've been in the medical software business there have been many changes. When I began, there were blue HCFA forms and bisync electronic claims modems. Now there are CMS Incentive programs for EMR adoption, electronic prescriptions, and Internet electronic claims.
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation has two state-of-the-art products that handle everything listed above and more. Intergy by Sage and Intergy EHR by Sage will change the way your office cares for patients. To find out how you can benefit or to schedule an EHR demo, give our sales department a call at 317-713-2065.
Cheers,
Mike
March Madness has begun! The 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball tournament is in full swing, and it began with an upset and two overtime games. Usually I'm sitting in a bar watching the games but today I happen to be at work. My enthusiasm has been dampened a bit by Purdue's recent woes.
The NCAA tournament is divided up into regions. Bradford-Scott Data Corporation has a large region in which we provide electronic medical records and medical office billing systems. We provide the following products in the following regions (color-coded by the teams represented by those :
- Indiana EMR (Purdue, Butler, Notre Dame)
- Ohio EMR (Ohio State, Ohio U, Xavier)
- Michigan EMR (Michigan State)
- Illinois EMR (shut out)
- Kentucky EMR (Kentucky, Louisville, Murray State)
If your practice is located in one of the above states and you are interested in EMR adoption, give us a call at 317-713-2065 or reply to this blog.
Boiler Up!
Cheers,
Mike
Sage Intergy EHR V5.5 is CCHIT 2008 certified and is designed to complement the clinical approach of your practice. With the local presence of Bradford-Scott Data Corporation to ensure you get the proper hand holding needed and the national backing of Sage Software to continue to keep this product on the leading edge of technology; this is a duo that is untouched.
The latest Intergy EHR release focuses on maximizing clinical connectivity in order to optimize your patient’s experience and enhance your bottom line. Intergy EHR does this by touching every aspect of your practice, from enhancing patient care to maximizing billing procedures.
Guideline-driven care for preventive measures and treatments protocols- Advanced clinical flow-sheets provide a view of a patient’s progress and treatment effectiveness
- ePrescribing enhances accuracy and provides interaction alerts
- Orders & Tasks allow you to easily create and track orders such as mammograms, blood tests, etc.
- Drug Utilization Review (DUR) On Demand and ePrescribing provide you instant access to drug interaction information
- Clinical record summary for Interoperability improves efficiency by sharing information
- Automated patient visit templates improve documentation & analyze coding
- Patient Privacy options ensure the security of sensitive patient data
- Specialty specific product features provide tools designed for your practice
Contact
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation today for your customized
Intergy EHR demo.
Even with all the talk about incentives and mandates, many are still wondering why they need an
EHR system. Here are just a few of the obvious reasons.
• Improved Coding - With better documentation tools, your coding will be more accurate, leading to better reimbursements.
• Storage - Keeping paper charts on-site takes up too much space and keeping them off-site takes up too much of your money.
•
e-Prescribing - Did you know that, on average, your staff spends 10 minutes handling prescription refill calls alone? How many of these calls are they taking each day?
• Malpractice Premiums - Some insurance carriers offer discounts to those providers using
EHR.
• No More Chart Pulls - This one speaks for itself. :)
If you wait until you are forced to implement an
Electronic Health Records system, chances are that you'll end up with one that is not a good fit for your practice or specialty. Start looking now and remember to look only at those that are CCHIT certified.
It's not a question of "if", it's a question of "when".
Do you know of any practices or physicians that are...
• New to your area?
• Building a new office or expanding?
• Breaking away from a hospital network?
• Unhappy with their current system or service?
• Currently seeking an
EHR (Electronic Health Record) system, a
Practice Managementsystem, an automated patient messaging system (
PhoneTree), or a
Paperless Office system?
If you are the first client to notify us, and they become a Bradford-Scott Data Corporation customer, we'll pay you $500!!
To submit your referral, please provide the following information for your practice as well as the referred practice:
• Organization Name
• Contact Name
• Phone Number
• Email Address (if available)
With the approval of The Stimulus Plan and the training and support of Bradford-Scott Data Corporation, there has never been a better time to implement an EHR.. and did I mention that Sage Intergy EHR V5.5 is CCHIT 2008 certified?!
An exciting new product in the
Intergy by Sage line is the Intergy Practice Portal. This product allows patients to interact with your practice in a brand new way! Whether it's on line or via a kiosk, patients can pre-register, view their information and results, and much more. A few of the features of this product include:
- Providing patients a convenient, secure on line option for submitting new patient registration forms, pre-visit questionnaires, appointment requests and prescription refills
- Empowering patients to view their lab results, immunization data, medications, health conditions and more
- Reducing staff phone time by exchanging real-time, secure email messages with patients instead of phone calls
Call
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation today to see how the Practice Portal feature of Intergy by Sage can increase satisfaction and reduce waiting times for your patients! Reply to this blog or call us at 317-713-2065.
Cheers,
Mike
The Big 10 tournament is here in town so I thought I'd run down the top 10 reasons why Intergy by Sage and Intergy EHR by Sage will transform your office:
- Bradford-Scott can help you qualify for EHR Stimulus money
- Sage Intergy EHR v 5.5 is CCHIT certified
- Go paperless
- EHR adoption is contagious, get started now
- BSDC provides Indiana EMR, Ohio EMR, Illinois EMR, Kentucky EMR and Michigan EMR
- CMS Incentives, Medicare Incentives, and Medicaid Incentives for EMR adopters
- Electronic prescriptions from your exam room.
- Comply with physician quality reporting initiative (PQRI) measures
- We offer the best training in the Midwest
- We offer the best support and service in the Midwest
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Purdue is my home team in the Big 10, and
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation is the home team among EHR companies in the Midwest. Call us to schedule an EHR demo!
Boiler Up!
Cheers,
Mike
The ARRA Program (also known as the Stimulus package) has split the implementation of EMR and meaningful use into three phases. The first proposed "Meaningful Use" Rule has a component for a lab interface.
The objective is to be able to send requisitions and receive lab reports back electronically through an interface from system to system.
The advantages to a lab interface are easy to see in our Intergy EHR system.
Time, Efficiency and Better Patient Care -
- Lab results are posted to client accounts automatically when reports are retrieved.
- A task is automatically sent to the physician that results are available to be reviewed. Flowsheets can also be viewed to look at results over time and can be graphed.
- The physician may review and forward tasks to staff members for whatever is needed in followup.
- The patient receives better care as a result of this process.
Have questions about purchasing and implementing an electronic medical record system? Contact Bradford-Scott Data Corporation and let us show you a better way to practice medicine.
A lot has been written about your EHR, or Electronic Health Record. But recently there has been a push to allow patients to create and manage a PHR, or Personal Health Record. While a hospital or provider with an electronic medical records system keeps track of your electronic health records, maintenance of a PHR is up to a patient.
According to myOptumHealth.com, any or all of the following information can be kept in a PHR:
- Family medical history
- Existing conditions
- Allergies
- Medications
- Surgeries
- Hospital stays
- Labs tests and results
- Dental and vision records
- Religious information
- Immunization records
- Emergency contacts
- Living wills
There are paper-based, computer-based, and Internet-based PHRs available. Obviously the Internet-based one is the most portable, but some may have reservations about the security of those. As EHR adoption grows, electronic health records will become more
and more available too. Bradford-Scott Data Corporation can provide you with an EHR demo of our Sage Intergy EHR product. Call 317-713-2065 or reply to this blog for more details.
Cheers,
Mike
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation and GI Pathology are pleased to announce the opportunity for your Gastroenterology practice to participate in a lab donation program for EHR software, consistent with applicable law.
Donation Period: March 15, 2010 – June 15, 2010
Donation Geographic Area: National Offering
Donation: GI Pathology, PLLC, will donate to qualified providers, up to 85% of the cost of eligible expenses for licensing, implementation, training and ongoing maintenance for Electronic Health Records (EHR). Donations are subject to specific terms not communicated in this letter, pursuant to the August 8, 2006 Final Rule of the HHS Office of Inspector General, establishing safe harbors for the donation of certain EHR technology. The donation is not conditioned on the recipient doing any business with GI Pathology for your laboratory testing needs.
Qualifying Criteria:
· The Gastroenterology practice has not purchased, been given or otherwise implemented EHR software or signed a contract to purchase .
· The practice has at least one full time employed Gastroenterologist.
If your practice would like to participate in this donation program, please fill out the return card and drop in the mail or contact Bradford-Scott representative today at (317) 713-2065 or visit our website www.bradfordscott.com for more information.
Bradford-Scott is located in the Indiana in the heart of the Midwest. We are known as one of the largest Medical Software Vendor in the area. Currently Bradford-Scott Data Corp is launching a campaign to bring EMR to you. We would love to come to your office and give an EHR Demo to display our systems capabilities as your new EHR System.
Our EHR and Medical Billing software is a high tech integrated system that is easy to understand and use. We are able to help you customize the system to fit your Medical office. This will not only improve the efficiency in your office, but will also qualify you for the available EHR Stimulus package.
The government is forcing the industry to all move towards an EHR system. They are offering an EHR Stimulus credit to those practices that have implemented an EHR system by 2012-2015. After that they are still requiring the medical practice to move to EHR, but with no stimulus offered.
So do not be left in the cold, get your EHR demo scheduled today and let us show you our product and services available!
Inquiring Minds want to know about the
ARRA Stimulus options!
If you've heard a lot of buzz about the Stimulus package, but haven't really checked to see if you could benefit from it, now is the time!
Eligible physicians (EP) can receive incentives for implementing an electronic medical record system and meeting "meaningful use" criteria. The ARRA Program targets a five year period for payment of incentives beginning in 2011. You may qualify for either Medicare incentives or Medicaid Incentives. The criteria and incentive amount differ slightly.
If you have questions about an electronic medical record (EMR) and the stimulus package contact Bradford-Scott Data Corporation and let our medical consultants get you started on the way!
When you are shopping for a new EHR System, a very important functionality to ask about is the Lab Portal feature. A lap portal allows you to connect to your Lab through your Practice Management or EHR System. This will also directly import lab results to your chart and allow for flowsheet tracking on each component or test.
Lab Portal Services is not only a great enhancement for the provider but is also a requirement in meeting meaningful use and achieving the EMR Stimulus Credit. Bradford-Scott Data Corp is already affiliated with many labs across the United States. This will allow for an immediate connection to your Lab through your EHR system.
Using an EHR System with Lab Portal capabilities will not only allow you to receive your EHR stimulus but also a great time saver and will free up your clinical staff to preform other duties.
This week
Bradford-Scott Data Corp traveled to Ohio to implement our EHR System at an OBGYN Medical Practice. The practice has three providers and a supportive clinical staff. Bradford-Scott has done much research on how to successfully implement an EHR System and we find that taking a client live in two phases is usually the best method. This gives them time to absorb the information they are trying to learn and then use it in a live atmosphere.
Here are a few of the EMR System features that they are currently using:
- Patient Flow Tracking
- Electronic RX or E-prescribe
- EHR progress note documenting
- Orders
- Recording Vitals
- Charge Submission
- EM Coding
- Tasking and Phone Messaging
After the days on site, one of the providers felt that they had a good start on understanding and using the EHR system. They focused on the GYN side of the practice and are currently entering all of their patient information for their GYN visits in the system.
One of the favorite features was the phone messaging. The providers felt as if they were able to concentrate more on the visits and answer phone messages when available instead of constantly being interrupted. Plus the system keeps a history of phone messages in each patient chart. This allows them to easily see repeat issues for that patient.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has published a survey showing that the "Meaningful Use" segment of the ARRA Regulations will spur health care IT spending in 2010. Nearly 3/4 of respondents report that their practice will increase their spending this year, largely driven by the CMS Incentive program.
Thirty-five percent of respondents said they plan to have a fully functioning electronic health records (EHR) system within two years. Under ARRA rules, health care companies that make meaningful use of electronic medical records and electronic prescriptions will be eligible for Medicare incentives and Medicaid incentives.
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation offers 2008
CCHIT-certified Sage Intergy EHR v5.5. If you want to find out how you can take advantage of the EHR stimulus money set forth by the ARRA program reply to this blog to schedule an EHR demo. It's looking to be a busy, busy year for EMR adoption and we're ready to help you.
Cheers,
Mike
Did you think HIPAA had ridden off into the sunset? Just when you thought it was safe, the new ARRA Regulations have defined new rules for notifying individuals when their protected health information has been breached. The ARRA Rules include a HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act which became effective in September.
Health care entities are required to notify individuals affected by a breach. A breach is defined as
"Any impermissible acquisition, access, use, or disclosure of unsecured protected health information that compromises the security or privacy of the information." Documentation must be provided and include the following:
- What happened to the information
- The nature of the information
- Steps that could mitigate the potential harm
- The number of individual identifiers present in the information
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation's Intergy by Sage and
Intergy EHR by Sage will provide your office with important HIPAA-compliant security. To learn more about these products, click their links for more information or call us at 317-713-2065.
Cheers,
Mike
Tired of reading about EHR/EMR Stimulus?
Are you thinking that if the government is involved then you aren't going to get paid? Are you wondering which incentive program to participate in (Medicare Incentives vs. Medicaid Incentives)?
Then talk to somebody with 27 years of customer service experience in the medical health care industry who is a local partner with a nationally backed product. Talk to
Bradford-Scott. Bradford-Scott will sit down with you, speak plain English and determine what path is the best path for you practice and specialty. You don't have to figure this out alone.
Bradford-Scott can help.
The guiding principle in selecting the right Electronic Health Record (EHR) for your practice is simple. In order for an EHR to work, physicians and clinicians should be able to use the technology in a way that enhances their workflow rather than impedes it.
Sage Intergy EHR enables you to leverage clinical information by providing you with a customizable system that adapts to existing workflows rather than forcing you to change how you work. Plus, special enhancements for primary care, as well as both surgical and non-surgical specialties, mean Sage Intergy EHR easily adapts to the needs of any size or type of practice.
With over 50 years of combined experience in the healthcare market, Sage and its Channel Partner Bradford-Scott Data Corporation understand that the needs of a Gastroenterology practice can vary greatly from those required by an OB/GYN group. When it comes to choosing an electronic health records (EHR) system, it's important to consider how that technology will work for your practice, whatever the specialty. Sage Intergy EHR was built to accommodate those unique needs, so you can be sure the system works, thinks and moves the way you do.
Sage Intergy EHR has built-in features for the following types of specialty practices:
- Cardiology
- Gastroenterology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Obstetrics/Gynecology
- Orthopedics
- Pediatrics
- Primary Care
- Radiology
- Urology
Contact a member of Bradford-Scott sales team to see how we can support your specialty practice.
The
Intergy Practice Portal provides an online communication solution between your patients and your medical practice. Access to the portal is as simple as opening a web browser. Through a secure login, your patients can access real-time information right out of your system.
Not only can the patient access practice specific information such as office hours, locations, etc. but also the following features:
- Patient Specific Medical Information
- Personal Medications
- Pharmacies
- Health Conditions
- Online Patient Services
- New Patient Registration
- Appointment Requests
- Prescription Refill Requests
- Pre Visit Forms
Another feature is secure messaging that will allow you to communicate with patients about lab results and action plans straight from the Intergy EHR system. Any information in the secure messaging can also be saved easily in the patients medical chart for future reference.
For more information contact
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation.
In 2007,
PQRI established a financial incentive for Eligible Professionals to participate in a voluntary quality reporting program. If EPs uses a minimum of 3 PQRI measures for a specified group of patients, that Eligible Professional can earn a bonus payment of 2% of all their Medicare billing for one year. In 2010 there are
179 PQRI measures and 13 different groups.
Eligible Professionals can use two ways to submit PQRI measures to CMS.
1. Claims Reporting Method: The billing system uses specialized CPTII codes that are submit as part of the normal claim.
2. Registry Reporting Method: EPs can use a CMS approved registry to submit data for collection multiple times throughout the year.
The rapid EHR adoption is expect to impact the growth of the Registry Reporting. Today many EHR vendors are creating reporting methods designed to capture incentive dollars. PQRI reporting among other is an effective way to offset cost and increase revenue in your practice. If you would like to learn more about our software can help your practice contact us at 317-713-2065 or visit us on the web at
www.bradfordscott.com.
As always, feel free to comment!
Jason
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