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.
I recently began using financial software to better track my spending and keep my financial goals in sight. I can see all of my transactions and see when & where I spent money as well as what types of categories my spending falls into. I have minimal accounting knowledge, but I can already see that this software will allow me to have a much tighter grasp on my finances and will give me more information than I ever thought possible.
I chose to use this software, but I could easily function without it. Medical Practice Billing Software, on the other hand, is nearly essential for a practice to compete in today's market. Luckily, Bradford Scott has a perfect software solution for your practice, regardless of your size or patient volume. Our newest prouduct, Intergy by Sage is designed around an accounting system model. Your financial information will be extremely secure, and all transactions will have a built-in audit log that you can easily view at anytime.
The best part about Intergy is the awesome support you will receive from Bradford Scott Medical. Our trainers and technical staff will help you through every step of your transition to our system, and will help you to get the most out of your software. If Intergy sounds like something your practice could use, contact Bradford Scott Medical today.
As a women's health provider, you face two unique sets of challenges... You are responsible for everything from long-term preventive care to managing acute and chronic health conditions. At the same time, you are required to document and analyze visit information to track pregnancy progress and manage risk. Intergy EHR by Sage, in conjunction with Intergy by Sage practice management, provides the tools you need to help you manage your business and care for your patients more effectively.Contact us today for more information or to schedule your free consultation.
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!
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
As technology advances for physicians with EHR Software, it also advances for patients. We live in a world of laptops and smart phones. May people prefer to communicate by e-mail than by telephone.
Our Intergy by Sage EHR Software offers a feature call Practice Portal. The Practice Portal facilitates the patient/provider “connection” by giving patients access to a wide array of online information and services through secure, online communications. Your patients can:
Receive General Practice Information
Request an Appointment
Request a Prescription Refill
Submit New Patient Registration Forms and Pre-Visit Questionnaires
View their lab results, immunization data, medications, health conditions, and more
In addition to these features you can reduce staff phone time by exchanging real-time, secure email messages with patients instead of phone calls. For more information about our Intergy by Sage Practice Portal and how it works with our Intergy EHR Software, contact Bradford Scott Data Corporation. We will be happy to set up an EHR Demo for you to see how our products can help your practice.
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.
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.
One of the greatest advantages we have with the Sage Intergy product is the ability to convert data from MENDS, Navigator, or other practice management systems into Intergy. Our existing MENDS and Navigator clients have the option of converting demographics, financial information, appointments, and setup. A typical conversion is broken down into several steps as follows:
Setup conversion - Maintenance codes are mapped, consolidated, and converted into Intergy. Once this information exists in the system, a practice may begin editing these codes for live use.
Test financial conversion - After setup is complete, a backup is taken. Next, a test run of demographics, financial data, and appointments is converted. Data is checked for accuracy and balancing, and data can be left on the Intergy system so that users can practice using test data.
Final conversion - The database is restored back to the post-setup backup so that the maintenance codes and all user edits of those are restored. Test financial data is removed. The final cut of data is retrieved and converted, resulting in the final data being placed on the system.
Bradford-Scott Data Corporation has converted dozens of customers to the Intergy system. Some came from MENDS or Navigator, and others came from a different practice management system. I do many of these conversions and I work hard to ensure your conversion is accurate. I hope to see you on my conversion schedule soon.
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?"
Monday, August 23rd starts our customer appreciation week here at BSDC!
We'll be providing demos, discounting products and services, and giving away prizes as well!! If you are a client and you haven't already submitted an entry, please let me know so I can get your practice on the list! :)
Thanks to all of you that helped Bradford-Scott enjoy of 27 years of success!!
We couldn't have done it without you and we value you as our customer!!
Since the release of Sage Intergy 6.0, many of our current Intergy clients have upgraded. In addition, all new Sage Intergy customers installed this summer have received version 6.0 already installed.
Sage Intergy v6.0 contains hundreds of new features. Some of the highlights include:
Immunization Registry Downloads - An automated report that can be uploaded to a state immunization registry for consolidated tracking (like CHIRP in Indiana)
Patient Age Display has been enhanced to show hours, days, weeks, and months of age depending on child's age
Practice Portal - major enhancements allowing attachments, secure patient information reports, and added performance
New reports including Patients by Vaccine, Consolidated ERA Reports, Cardio Patient Matching, Health Center Quarterly Report, and more
This is just a small sampling of the many additions and changes available in Sage Intergy v6.0. For more information, contact Bradford-Scott Data Corporation at 317-713-2065 or contact us through this blog.
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.
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.
Why consider an Electronic Medical Records System? • Improved Coding - With better documentation tools, your coding will be more accurate. Where there is more accuracy, better patient care and, in most cases, higher reimbursements will follow.
• Storage - Where are you putting those charts? Keeping them on-site takes up too much space and keeping them off-site takes up too much of your money. Use your space for another exam room and use your money for whatever you want, not renting the unnecessary.
• 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? You're paying them how much per hour?
• Malpractice Premiums - Did you know that some insurance carriers offer discounts to those providers using EHR? It's true... Some even offer discounts all the way up to 20%, and for you specialty practices out there, this type of saving would more than cover the cost of your EHR.
• No More Chart Pulls - With an average cost of $5 per chart pull, how much money would your practice save? The average is 30 chart pulls per day, what would you do with an extra $39,150 per year?
If you wait until you are forced to implement an Electronic Health Records system, will you end up with one that you have no control over? Call us today to view a demo of Intergy EHR. Intergy EHR meets all of the Stage 1 criteria to receive your incentives.
It's not a question of "if", it's a question of "when".
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.
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!
As technology advances for physicians with EHR Software, it also advances for patients. We live in a world of laptops and smart phones. May people prefer to communicate by e-mail than by telephone. 
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. 
Monday, August 23rd starts our customer appreciation week here at BSDC! 
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?
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.
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