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!
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.
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 the midwest's largest Practice Managment and EHR vendor and is proud to offer Intergy by Sage as our EHR and practice managment solution. Bradford-Scott proudly serves the greater five state area of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky with practice management and EHR/EMR software. Some larger recent Intergy clients in Illinois include the following:
Sage North America today announced that Danville Polyclinic, Ltd., the largest comprehensive multi-specialty clinic in Danville, Ill., has chosen Sage Intergy EHR for its electronic documentation needs across 40 providers.
Danville Polyclinic, which services as many as 1,000 patient encounters a day, was searching for the following:
Looking to employ an electronic health record (EHR) solution that would improve coding accuracy and reportability
They also wanted to streamline workflow processes, ultimately enabling the clinic to enhance the quality of care for its patients.
Implementation of Sage Intergy EHR throughout the practice will be complete in May 2010, per Sage.
Sandy Knauer director of Information services states, "We've been very impressed with Sage throughout our history using Sage Intergy Practice Management and Sage Practice Analytics," ... "When we made the decision to roll out an electronic health records system, Sage was the obvious choice; not only from an integration perspective but also for Intergy's ease-of-use and robust features." So if you are a medical provider in Illinois searching for an EHR or practice managment solution why not contact Bradford-Scott about EMR adoption, BSDC will be happy to assist you with your Illinois EMR and practice management needs. For more information please feel free to visit our website WWW.bradfordscott.com or call Monica to schedule a demo at (317) 713-2065 or (800)963-2732.
Is your practice using an electronic script writing software? If not you might want to invest in one. This is not only a more secure way to submit patient medications to the pharmacy, but there is also a kickback offered to all medical offices that are using a true e-script medical software product from Medicare. This functionality will also be required for your practice to qualify for meaningful use and receive government stimulus money.
Bradford-Scott's EMR system allows the doctor, or medical practice, to send and answer prescription requests directly from within the Electronic Medical Records Software. This causes little disruption to the doctors day as he can quickly answer the request while seeing patients. The newest feature of the E-scripting software will allow the doctor to submit controlled substances electronically. This will also save the doctor time in writing out prescriptions.
With the combination of the a more secure way to submit patient prescriptions, and the ease of use to the doctor and clinical staff, eprescribing is a valuable asset to any medical facility.
So everyone is probably looking forward to their weekend plans. Those plans probably don't include searching for a new practice management software system or scheduling a EMR Demo, but EMR adoption is something to put on your calendar for further investigation. So go ahead and plan your weekend outing or picnic, but before you leave the office make a note on your calender to call Bradfordscott Data Services for more information about our newest product offering Intergy by Sage. We offer Intergy Practice Management and EHR solutions. When you get in on Monday either visit our website www.bradfordscott.com or call us at 317-713-2065 or (800) 963-2732 for more information and to schedule a Demonstration of our products.
Look around your office and notice all the stacks of paper everywhere. With an integrated EMR system all the stacks of paper can be eliminated through document imaging. Most EMR vendors will discuss converting your paper chart into an electronic chart. However they do not focus on all the other paper documents in the office. Each Medical office receives, radiology reports, discharge letters, referral letters, lab results, and many other items daily in a paper format.
Bradford-Scott Data Corp has an EMR product that can convert all your paper into electronic files no matter how they get to your office. There are many items that come into the office through fax. With a faxing solution these items can be directly imported into the system and sent to the doctor for review and stored in the patient chart.
Another way to cut out the paper is to receive your Radiology reports, Ultrasounds, hospital reports, and an other paper documentation on an cd and then import them into the system using the imaging feature in your EMR system.
Your Medical Office can even go a step further and scan in all their EOB's into an electronic file cabinet. So can staff information, patient education, and doctors registration. Security settings within the EMR system can be set to only all certain people to see certain types of documents.
The opportunities to eliminate paper in your office are endless. You will not only make it easier to find the medical records you are looking for, but also help environment by cutting back on the use of paper. Electronic Medical Records Systems make it easy to organize your office.
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation, a premier Indiana Electronic Medical Records (EMR) vendor is proud to announce a state-of-the-art Remote Monitor System (RMS) for its Intergy Enterprise Medical Software clients. With RMS, a doctor's office now has peace-of-mind knowing that their Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Practice Management (PM) systems are running error-free, all-the-time.
Unlike most other Enterprise Medical Software products, Bradford-Scott's Sage Intergy Enterprise Medical Software solution provides real-time remote system monitoring with the built-in Remote Monitor System (RMS).
With RMS, not only does Bradford-Scott monitor each of their client's medical billing systems, proactively looking for critical errors that could lead to unnecessary system downtime, but also they provide continuous software updates, ensuring that their clients always have the latest, most advanced medical billing software available.
To find out more about this sophisticated Indiana EMR solution, call Mike Bessignano at Bradford-Scott Data Corporation at 317-713-2065 for an EMR Demo.
Let's face it. In order for a doctor's office to maximize its efficiency, patients have to show up on-time for their appointments. Traditionally, an office would pay an employee to manually call patients, reminding them of their upcoming appointments. Now, however, with Intergy Practice Management (PM), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), or Enterprise Medical Software systems, Bradford-Scott Data Corporation offers the PhoneTree Patient messaging system which can do this calling automatically.
In the PhoneTree patient messaging system, an office not only has an automatic way to reduce no-shows, but also has a pain-free collection module. Quite simply, the PhoneTree messaging system pays for itself in the time that employees don't have to spend doing mundane tasks, usually in just a matter of months.
For more information about PhoneTree other Indiana Enterprise Medical Software Solutions, please call Mike Bessignano at Bradford-Scott Data Corporation @ 317-713-2065.
On Tuesday July 13, 2010 the Secretary of Health and Human Services announced the final rule to support the 'meaningful use' of Electronic Health Records.
Basically, this finalized the process to receive stimulus money under the Medicare Incentive program or Medicaid Incentive program for purchasing a qualified EHR system and being able to prove that you are using it in a meaningful way. There were two companion rules announced as well
The first regulation issued by CMS defines the minimum requirements that providers must meet through their use of a certified EHR system. (Defining what they mean when they say 'Meaningful Use')
The second regulation issued by the ONC identifies the standards and certification criteria that EHR systems must meet to be considered 'certified'.
Eligible professionals may received up to $44,000 under the Medicare Incentive or $63,750 under the Medicaid Incentive.
This final rule does include some modifications to the proposed rule that was issued on Jan 13, 2010. One difference is that in the proposed rule eligible providers would have to meet 25 requirements to prove meaningful use of their EHR/EMR system. In the final rule it amends that and divides the requirements into a 'core' group of requirements that must be met, plus additional 'menu' procedures that a provider can choose from.
Over the next several weeks, Bradford-Scott will be reviewing these rules/regulations in detail and working with our parent company, Sage Healthcare, to better understand these requirements and how to best help our clients successfully navigate the next several months.
The ARRA Regulations require meaningful use when determining whether an entity qualifies for Medicare incentives. It may sound easy, but check out the first paragraph in this article I found on civsourceonline.com: "According to a new survey, eight in ten hospital chief information officers (CIOs) are worried they will not meet the “meaningful use” requirements for electronic health records (EHRs) by 2015."
That's a pretty serious statement. Though Bradford-Scott doesn't work directly with hospital information systems, we do work with many physicians who are affiliated with a hospital. Bradford-Scott has been working with electronic medical records for several years and can help you achieve meaningful use. What you need first is an EMR system. Click to learn more about Sage Intergy EHR. Better yet, call us at 317-713-2065 to schedule an EHR demo. We can show you how to comply with the ARRA rules so you can get your incentives. It's time to get started. We can get you ready, but you've got to act soon to comply in time. We hope to hear from you!
Sure, Intergy by Sage and Sage Intergy EHR are two of the best products available. At Bradford-Scott, our mission is to provide the best service and support for those products. We know that getting a new enterprise medical software or electronic health records system is a big change. That's why we offer extensive training and unlimited telephone support.
Each year we measure our customer satisfaction. In 2009 we sent surveys to each of our clients. The results were overwhelming, and we received a 9.52 score (on a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the highest). This was our best score to date and represented an increase over last year.
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation prides itself on providing the best support for or Indiana EMR, Ohio EMR, Illinois EMR, Michigan EMR, and Kentucky EMR customers. This was explained to me on the day I was hired 18 years ago and it's still true. If you're already a customer, you know. If you're not yet a customer, now you know what you're missing.
I haven't blogged for a while. Over the last 2 weeks I've spent most of my time reconstructing a lost data file for a customer. It was the file that holds charges and is one of the core files of the system. It was on the backup, the customer was doing backups, but when it came time to use it, the file couldn't be read. So I rebuilt it using data from different files and reports. It was like putting a giant puzzle together with pieces from all over.
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation takes backups seriously. With the emergence of electronic health records (EHR), providers cannot afford to lose data or be down. That's why our backup solution for Intergy by Sage and Sage Intergy EHR are the most advanced backup we offer.
Make sure you're doing your backups! And to learn more about our products or to schedule an EMR demo, contact us through this blog or at 317-713-2065.
It's cleaning day here at Bradford-Scott Data Corporation. Every spring we take a day to make sure everything sparkles, re-organize and get rid of accumulated clutter.
Have you thought about making a clean sweep in your office?
How much room do your paper charts take that could be used for more productive space?
What about those charts that are no longer active but need to be kept for at least seven years?
It's time to make a change for the better and move to an electronic medical record software system(EMR). Not only will you find that you can store patient charts electronically, but you can also scan EOB's and other material taking up space in all those file drawers. With our SAGE Intergy product, you can set security levels for access, so confidential information is protected.
Changing to an EMR system will also provide benefits you didn't"t expect -
Increased efficiency in your office - with instant access to charts, electronic prescriptions and lab orders as well as results, just to name a few. Once you have implemented an EMR system, you will also notice that patient care has improved as well.
An added bonus to implementing an EMR system now, is the ARRA Regulations that provide Medicare or Medicaid incentive money for implementing an EMR and meeting the meaningful use criteria. Early EMR adoption can also increase the amount of incentive available per physician.
Are you ready to make a change, but not sure where to start?
Let our Bradford-Scott Data Corporation medical sales consultants discuss the ARRA Rules and the SAGE Intergy EMR product with you and start you on your way.
It's May in Indy and this weekend the track opens in preparation for the Indianapolis 500. Drivers will qualify for pole position and their spot in the lineup over the next two weekends. The excitement builds the rest of the month until the race!
Are you in the race for electronic medical records (EMR)?
Have you begun your search?
Considered what you need from an electronic medical record system to aid you in your practice?
What criteria in the ARRA Regulations will affect how you currently practice and record information?
What you need to do to qualify for the ARRA incentives that will be available to physicians who implement an electronic medical record system and meet the meaningful use criteria?
With all these questions, don't forget to consider your software vendor and how their support will help you through planning, training, implementing your electronic medical record system.
Need help getting started? Start by talking with one of our medical sales consultants about our Intergy EHR software and the ARRA Program. Contact Bradford-Scott Data Corporation today and you'll be the one racing past for the checkered flag!
Sunday is Mother's Day. It's a good time to celebrate our mothers that were / are always there for us. We're headed up to Fort Wayne for the weekend where we'll be lucky enough to see both of our mothers and both of our grandmothers.
Before I leave for the weekend, I've got a few Intergy data conversions to wrap up. One is for an long-time client who has been with us for several years. They have made the jump to Intergy by Sage and will hopefully soon be using the Pediatrics EMR system. In the past month we've converted another pediatrics EMR customer and a primary care EMR customer to Intergy by Sage. Next week I begin a big conversion for a neurological group that is joining the Bradford-Scott family as first-time Intergy users. The fun never stops!
I hope you'll take some time this weekend to thank your mother or any important mother in your life.
I think Spring is finally here! After a couple of weeks of warm weather, now all of the poor allergy-ridden folks are being overcome by the yellow pollen. The only thing we haven't had much of yet are April showers. This Spring should be an exciting time not only for outdoor lovers, but also the medical industry. Some of the Spring happenings should be:
On March 23, President Obama signed heath care reform into law. Insurance premiums fall like rain (hopefully!)
Discussion period for EHR stimulus continues. Congress looks to modify ARRA rules for meaningful use resulting in more attainable CMS incentive payments.
Bradford-Scott brings live an Ohio EMR client and two Indiana EMR clients on CCHIT certified Sage Intergy EHR v 5.5!
Spring is an exciting time and it's an exciting time in the health care industry. If your office is considering implementation of electronic health records or upgrading your medical billing system, contact us! Click to find out more information about Intergy by Sage, or you can schedule an EMR demo by replying to this blog or contacting Bradford-Scott Data Corporation at 317-713-2065.
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!
This week I had a training session on Tuesday evening from 5-7pm on our Electronic Medical Records Software program. 
Is your practice using an electronic script writing software? If not you might want to invest in one. This is not only a more secure way to submit patient medications to the pharmacy, but there is also a kickback offered to all medical offices that are using a true e-script medical software product from Medicare. This functionality will also be required for your practice to qualify for meaningful use and receive government stimulus money.
Bradford-Scott Data Corp has an EMR product that can convert all your paper into electronic files no matter how they get to your office. There are many items that come into the office through fax. With a faxing solution these items can be directly imported into the system and sent to the doctor for review and stored in the patient chart. 
Let's face it. In order for a doctor's office to maximize its efficiency, patients have to show up on-time for their appointments. Traditionally, an office would pay an employee to manually call patients, reminding them of their upcoming appointments. Now, however, with Intergy Practice Management (PM), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), or Enterprise Medical Software systems, 
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation
It's cleaning day here at Bradford-Scott Data Corporation. Every spring we take a day to make sure everything sparkles, re-organize and get rid of accumulated clutter. 
Are you ready to make a change, but not sure where to start? 
It's May in Indy and this weekend the track opens in preparation for the Indianapolis 500. Drivers will qualify for pole position and their spot in the lineup over the next two weekends. The excitement builds the rest of the month until the race!
I think Spring is finally here! After a couple of weeks of warm weather, now all of the poor allergy-ridden folks are being overcome by the yellow pollen. The only thing we haven't had much of yet are April showers. This Spring should be an exciting time not only for outdoor lovers, but also the medical industry. Some of the Spring happenings should be:
Powered by Compendium Blogware