Yesterday I conducted a training session on E-Prescribing, Allergies, E-Encounters, and Tasking. This is the training session that Bradford-Scott refers to as our Clinical Setup Training Session. When purchasing an EHR System from Bradfordscott, we evaluate your need for particular classes and advise you on what classes to take in what order. After completing the EMR training Classes your practice should be able to use the EHR System to document your daily office visits.
This particular EHR training session covered the follow areas with a brief description of each:
E-Prescribing- Writing medication prescriptions from the EHR System and sending the script through a secure portal to the pharmacy. Receiving prescription request from the pharmacy through the EHR Software.
Allergies- Creating an Allergy list for each patient in which the system will automatically cross reference when sending a medication.
E-Encounters- Electronic form that resembles your Superbill, Encounter Form, or Fee Sheet. To allow for a favorites list in the system that applies to your practice.
Tasks- The ability to send task to individuals within the office. Also a portal in which the provider can receive and review RX Request and Lab Results.
After the training session I encourage staff members to use their new skills to setup favorite list and settings that meet their office's needs!
Certification by an ATCB will signify to eligible professionals, hospitals, and critical access hospitals that an EHR technology has the capabilities necessary to support their efforts to meet the goals and objectives of meaningful use."
What this means is that EHR systems previously certified by CCHIT must be re-certified as supporting electronic health records meaningful use criteria. Sage Intergy EHR has selected the Drummond Group to provide this certification. This will allow all of Bradford-Scott's EHR customers to have the tools in place to qualify for stimulus money. Want more info or and EHR demo? Contact us through this blog or call 317-713-2065 and ask for medical sales.
I recently took my glasses to a local optomatrist that has a chain of locations in our area. I did not buy my glasses there, but I was hoping they could help me fix the lens that had popped out of the frame. The woman at the office was very nice and tried for several minutes to repair the glasses, but was ultimately unable to do so. She kindly offered to send the glasses to their lab at another location, and let me know this would be a complimentary service. They would call me a few days later and I could pick them up. I was so pleased with this store's service, and left with a good feeling about leaving my glasses in their care.
>>>>Fast Forward to "A few days later" No response from the optomitrist. I decide to give them a few days as I was quite busy that week anyway.
>>>Fast Forward to 10 days after dropping off the glasses No response from the optomitrist. I called the office, was put on hold, my number was taken and I was assured someone would return my call in a few minutes. I know they are a busy location, so I was not alarmed.
>>>Fast Forward to 14 days after dropping off the glasses I have not received a call back, and I have not received any information as to why my glasses are missing. A return call to the optomitrist results in my number being taken again and another assurance that someone will call me back in a few minutes. I wait several hours, and then call them again. I am beginning to think that my $600 glasses have been lost! This time I am told that my glasses were shipped to the wrong store, and that they will be shipped to the correct store in a few days. The office will call me when they arrive. I am hoping that this really is the case. Unfortunately, after this poor experience, I am unlikely to ever use this store again.
I never really paid too much attention to customer service before I began working for Bradford Scott Medical. Now I feel like I pay more attention to the service I receive than I do to the product I am purchasing!
Bradford Scott has best in the business customer service. We always call our clients within 29 minutes of receiving their call during business hours. We do our best to update clients on open issues every two days, but more often than not we can solve the problem the same day. If you want your Medical Billing Software and EMR vendor to take great care of you and give you awesome customer service, contact Bradford Scott Medical today!
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has detailed the terms for FFP (Federal Financial Participation) of up to 90% matched funds.
Three requirements must be met in order to be eligible for FFP matched funds:
1. Administration of Medicaid incentive payments to Medicaid EPs and eligible hospitals;
2. Oversight of the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program, including routine tracking of meaningful use attestations and reporting mechanisms;
3. Pursuit of initiatives that encourage the adoption of certified EHR technology for the promotion of health care quality and the electronic exchange of health information.
The full text of the letter sent to Medicaid Administrators for your state is located on the CMS website.
Bradford Scott Medical has a great suite of products that will help your practice meet these requirements; Intergy by Sage Practice Management & EHR Software. Contact us today for more information or to set up a demonstration.
My husband and I own a 109 year old house that we are restoring. Our current project is windows, insulation, and new siding. This is a huge undertaking, but it is actually going fairly well. We bought 16 new windows this spring to do the project. I made sure that they were Energy Star qualified so we would qualify for the $1500 credit. Well...... completing the paperwork for my Tax credit I find that the windows are .001 UVFR away from qualifying for the credit. Lesson learned, make sure you qualify before purchasing!
Point of the story is dealing with the requirements for tax credits can be tricky. So when you are implementing an EMR System and Electronic Prescribing Software, be sure to fully understand Meaningful Use and all requirements for receiving your EMR Stimulus money.
Bradford-Scott Data Corp not only keeps up-to-date with the changes in Meaningful Use and what that means to our practices, but we also provide a guide to let you know what Meaningful Use means to you. What Electronic Medical Records Features are required for you to qualify as a EHR Systems user and qualify for the stimulus money!
This has been a week of running. My daughter's first cross country meet of the year was last Saturday. My son's first cross country meet ever was Wednesday. And I ran nearly 10 miles this week.
What else has been running this week? Bradford-Scott. Even though we've had 6-10 service reps in Sage Intergy training all week, we've kept support running on all cylinders, including:
Full phone support staff supporting over 200 Intergy, MENDS, and Navigator customers
Training staff visiting a pediatrics Intergy customer for a review
Update to Intergy v6.0 for one of our largest Intergy medical software Kentucky clients
Electronic health records upgrade for a Pediatrics EMR customer
No rest for the wicked. Bradford-Scott is running to service our customers all the time, and so am I. Now excuse me as I run off to happy hour!
One of the coolest features in Bradford-Scott's EMR System is the Flowsheets screen. We can customize your EMR system to show the items that you wish to track and also group them together based on condition that you are trying to monitor.
Here are some of the features:
Customize list of vitals, findings, and lab results to show on the patients flowchart. in the Patient Records System.
Graphing- Display a visual graph of the change in a component of the flowsheet over time. You can graph one item or several items together.
Medication Duration- The screen will display the medications that the patient is taking in comparison to the items that you are tracking in your flowsheet. This will quickly show the provider how the medication is affecting the patients findings.
Growth Chart- There is a built in growth chart that will plot and child's height and weight automatically.
Flowsheets are just another great feature in Electronic Medical Records that will make it easier for providers to care for their patients.
This week at Bradford-Scott we have a Technical Trainer in to provide additional training on our EMR System and Medical Software System. There are some things we already know and some things that are new to us. It is important to continuously educate yourself on your systems for there might be something that makes your job easier!
Continuing Education is important to our Electronic Health Records, and Medical Software System clients. Bradford-Scott Data Corp provides free classes that can either be attended in a webinar or classroom environment. These classes cover different areas of the software systems. This allows you to take courses on areas that are most needed.
I have a Medical Software client that attends a basic overall training session once a year. This person leaves the class with something new each time. She says that she will continue to come once a year because she has found so many shortcuts that make her day to day tasks easier.
Many physicians know about the current proposal for the EMR Stimulus package, but question what the difference is between the Medicaid Incentives and the Medicare Incentives. Although both of these packages seem great, you will need to decide which package will work best for your office.
The Medicaid Incentives and Requirements are as follows:
Must be a Physician, Dentist, Certifies Nurse Midwife, Nurse Practitioner, or Physician Assistant (In a Rural Health Clinic or FQHC lead by a Physician Assistant)
Have a minimum of 30% medicaid patient mix (20% for pediatricians)
Begins in 2011
May receive up to $63,750 over a 6 year period
1st year cost no later than 2016
No payments made after 2021 or more than 5 years
No Medicaid penalty for failure to demonstrate Meaningful Use
Does not require Meaningful Use the first year as long as you can demonstrate you are adopting, implementing, or upgrading
The Medicare Incentives and Requirements are as follows:
Must be a Doctor of Medicine or Osteopathy, Doctor of Dental Surgery or Dental Medicine, Dr. of Podiatric Medicine, Doctor of Optometry, or a Chiropractor
Begins in 2011
May receive up to $44,000 over a 5 year period
Incentive based on percentage of Medicare allowable
Must prove meaningful use for all patients, not just Medicare patients
Incentive payments end in 2015
Penalty reductions on Medicare reimbursements if not proving Meaningful Use starting in 2015 (1% a year capped at 3%)
You can see by these requirements, that it's better to begin your EMR Adoption sooner rather than later. At Bradford Scott Data Corporation, we will be happy to walk with you through your EMR Implementation and make sure you are up to date on the current changes in Incentive Requirements. Contact us for an EMR Demo today, so you don't miss out on one penny!
Times are changing and technology for medical practices is changing toward EMR Adoption. Some physicians are embracing this head on, while other are more hesitant to take the first step. Well, now is the time to take the plunge and consider EMR Adoption for your practice for many different reasons:
Supported EM Coding using a built in E&M Calculator.
EHR Stimulus Money is waiting for you!
Convenience of having all your patient medical records at your fingertips.
DUR review to notify you of any drug interactions that may occur.
Paperless Electronic Patient Charting.
Backing of the Medcin Database.
E-Prescribing
Integrated product with Medical Insurance Billing Software.
Bradford Scott Data Corporation offers Intergy by Sage EMR and Medical Office Billing Software. In addition to a fabulous product, we can also offer you the VERY best customer service around. To schedule an EMR Demo for your practice, contact us at Bradford Scott Medical.
75% of the public supports the movement of electronic health records, but will the technology really make us safer? Here are my top 5 favorite reasons for thinking that they will....
Less trips to the doctor's office - When we can email our doctors instead of having to set appointments for every little thing, like a prescription refill, we will be saving time and money! Less time taken off of work, less money spent in gas, and less time spent waiting in the lobby will always be positives in my book.
Access to your medical records on vacation - With EHR technology being rapidly embraced, it's just a matter of time before doctors and hospitals will be able to share our medical records. If I'm off getting married in Vegas, and I need to seek medical attention, my doctor from the Hoosier state can send my info with a touch of a button. I don't know about you, but I don't like having to re-take tests and blood work if I don't have to!
No more leaving messages and calling back for lab results - How many times have you called for your results, only to be told to call back later? Wouldn't it be nice if we could just log on and see the results for ourselves? Very nice!
No more hauling X-rays and medical files - If we are referred to a specialist, that physician will need our past records, tests, and/or X-rays. But what id they could just retrieve them like a digital picture? No more sorting through papers, waiting for faxes, or hauling them yourself.
Prescriptions - When prescriptions are transmitted electronically, the system automatically checks for interactions and correct dosage. Do you go to more then one doctor for more than one reason? Now you don't have to worry if the pharmacist will catch it. Electronic prescriptions have saved millions already, and the doctor gets a kick-back right now from Medicare, what's not to love?
If your physician is not taking advantage of electronic health records, it's time for you to ask why. With the ARRA(Stimulus) incentives that are available, it has never been a better time to make a move.
This week I had a training session on Tuesday evening from 5-7pm on our Electronic Medical Records Software program. Bradford-Scott offers training times during the day and in the evenings to give your practice time to learn the EMR System and not interfere with your patient load. The training session was covering the Provider Desktop and Patient Charting. These are two areas of our EMR product that will be used daily by the clinical staff and providers.
The Provider Desktop consists of the providers schedule, Open Task, Open Encounters, and Open Orders. Our EMR System starts the provider out on this screen as a snapshot of all the items they would typically want to monitor.
Patient Charting was the next topic covered. There are many items in this area required to receive Medicare Incentives. Tabs represent different areas of the patients chart. Much like the tabs that are in your paper chart. Except these are items are easy to read and update. There is no need to dig around the chart in search of a document, everything is properly stored under it's specific tab as it is entered in the system.
The training session went well the doctors were more than thrilled with the Health Maintenance Screen. He quoted that to be his favorite screen of the system so far!
So now that you have purchased an Electronic Medical Records System you are having problems adjusting to documenting your patients visit on your new system. You may be feeling like you are so focused on your computer that you are not even looking at your patient. You may feel like it takes you three times as long to do the same amount of patient charting. Here are a few tips to make EMR Adoption an easier process.
Start the visit without your computer to maintain that patient doctor relationship
Face the patient with the laptop or tablet on your lap. This way it is easier to look at the patient from time to time and try to keep that patient relationship strong.
Practice, Practice, Practice...before going live on the EMR system take a few visits from each day and enter into the system. It may be extra time added to your work day but will make you feel more confident when the patient is in front of you.
Only choose certain visits and start slow. Do not plan on documenting a whole days worth of patients visits your first day, most likely you will get frustrated and quit using it all together.
Do not get hung up on one particular finding that you want to document and cannot find. Write it down and then ask your support team later.
These are just a few of our tips that we offer when implementing an EMR System. Bradford-Scott has been in the business of Medical Software for over 25 years. With our experience we offer the best support in the business.
A few years ago you could mention the acronym EMR and nobody knew what you were talking about. Today you mention EMR and everybody knows what it is, and it does not matter if you are speaking with a medical professional or patient. So what is the point of EMR and how can you benefit from implementing your Electronic Medical Records System?
Electronic Medical Records are used to create better tracking and reporting on patient care to ultimately allow providers to better care for their patients. One of the major features is the Health Maintenance piece. This feature will automatically put the patient in a preventative group of health guidelines based on age and sex. It will also apply a set of care condition guidelines based on the patients problem list.
The doctor is reminded of these care guidelines every time a patent's chart is accessed. As these guidelines are satisfied they will be removed from the list until they are due again. This feature is key to ensure that your patients are being treated for everything that is needed for them individually.
There are many other features of Electronic Medical Records that provide better care to patients. Health Maintenance is just one many. Contact Bradford-Scott Data Corp for more information.
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation is attending the IMGMA Fall Conference!!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Renaissance Indianapolis North 11925 N. Meridian St, Carmel, IN
We'll be there to answer your questions about stimulus and EHR (electronic health records), and help you choose the correct solutions for your practice!! Make sure to stop by!! Questions of Today: "To Use or Not to Use?" "To Integrate or Not to Integrate?" To Implement or Not to Implement?"
Tonight we're going to our first Symphony on the Prairie. It's Michael Jackson night, so not only do we get to see a fantastic orchestra playing MJ songs, there is also a professional MJ impersonator singing. My kids are both violin players and my son is a big MJ fan, so it should be a good time. Oh, and did I mention you can bring beverages in?
A successful symphony relies on many individual people and instruments working together. Bradford-Scott Data Corporation has been successful for similar reasons. Our Intergy, Intergy EHR, MENDS, and Navigator customers' success depends on us working together. As a value added reseller, we have team members that provide training, consulting, programming, system administration, network administration, hardware support, and hardware repair.
Bradford-Scott's best-in-class service and support keeps getting better. We work together to orchestrate the finest solutions for our customers. To find out how Bradford-Scott can provide you with Intergy electronic health records and practice management, contact us through this blog.
An article at www.healthimaging.com says that during a CMS webinar on 8/8/10, it was stated that eligible health care professionals can receive incentives in 2011. Just buying electronic health records does not guarantee CMS incentive payments; meaningful use must be demonstrated.
Here are the three main objectives when defining meaningful use:
Use of certified EHR in a meaningful manner (e.g.,e-prescribing);
Use of certified EHR technology for electronic exchange of health information to improve quality of health care; and
Use of certified EHR technology to submit clinical quality measures (CQM) and other such measures selected by the Secretary.
Bradford-Scott is proud to offer Sage Intergy EHR to help you on your way to fulfilling meaningful use requirements. We'll be with you throughout every step of your EHR adoption. For more information or for an EHR demo, call 317-713-2065.
This week has been the hottest week yet this summer. Temps are in the 90s and heat index is in the 100s! My kids are both in cross country and they've had to run in some very warm temperatures. So far I've run each evening this week and I plan to do it again tonight. It's a great way to lose weight (or pass out)!
It's been a hot summer for Bradford-Scott Data Corporation as well. Sales of Sage Intergy v6.0 and Sage Intergy EHR have been coming in at record levels. The 'big board' where we keep track of new clients, data conversions, and electronic health records implementations is full. It's not uncommon for our service and support staff to be working with multiple new customers.
If you haven't joined the Intergy revolution yet, there's still time. We've got the products you need, but even more importantly, we've got the best service and support in the Midwest. Click the links for more information, or to see a practice management or EHR demo, reply to this blog.
Mark your calendars! If you're an existing Bradford-Scott Data Corporation PM or EMR client, we've got a special week in store for you. BSDC Customer Appreciation Week is August 23 through August 27. This year we're giving gifts and prizes to our customers such as:
The government has put incentives in place for Regional Extension Centers (RECs) to assist smaller physician groups in their search for a electronic health records (EHR) system. The RECs will support and serve health care providers to help them quickly become adept and meaningful users of EHR systems. RECs are designed to make sure that primary care clinicians get the help they need to use EHRs.
RECs will:
Provide training and support services to assist doctors and other providers in adopting EHRs
Offer information and guidance to help with implementation
Give technical assistance as needed
The goal of the program is to provide outreach and support services to at least 100,000 priority primary care providers within two years.
ONC has funded 60 RECs in virtually every geographic region of the United States to ensure plenty of support to health care providers in communities across the country.
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation is a value added reseller for a nationally installed RECs recognized EHR system for the Midwest. You can learn more about us at www.bradfordscott.com
My husband and I own a 109 year old house that we are restoring. Our current project is windows, insulation, and new siding. This is a huge undertaking, but it is actually going fairly well. We bought 16 new windows this spring to do the project. I made sure that they were Energy Star qualified so we would qualify for the $1500 credit. Well...... completing the paperwork for my Tax credit I find that the windows are .001 UVFR away from qualifying for the credit. Lesson learned, make sure you qualify before purchasing!
Times are changing and technology for medical practices is changing toward EMR Adoption. Some physicians are embracing this head on, while other are more hesitant to take the first step. Well, now is the time to take the plunge and consider EMR Adoption for your practice for many different reasons:
This week I had a training session on Tuesday evening from 5-7pm on our Electronic Medical Records Software program. 
Tonight we're going to our first Symphony on the Prairie. It's Michael Jackson night, so not only do we get to see a fantastic orchestra playing MJ songs, there is also a professional MJ impersonator singing. My kids are both violin players and my son is a big MJ fan, so it should be a good time. Oh, and did I mention you can bring beverages in?
The government has put incentives in place for Regional Extension Centers (RECs) to assist smaller physician groups in their search for a 
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