Medical software training by Terry

There has been a lot of belly aching about the recent snow storms that have hit the Midwest. Yes, snow storms do get old, but I remember what it was like growing up in the 70's and 80's with blizzards here in Indiana. In the more recent years our winters here in Indiana have been very mild compared with those of my childhood. And although I am in the Federal protected age group, I am not that old. I guess one thing that you can count on in Indiana is that there will be some snow storms each and every winter season.

• A call back within 29 minutes from when you have logged your call
• trained software and hardware support teams
• Our dedication to client satisfaction, every year we send our clients our customer satisfaction surveys and this year you rated us as a 9.52 on a 10 point scale.

• It automates access to patient information
• Enables providers to make better decisions & provide better care
• Improves the accuracy of medical records
• Reduces the incidence of medical errors
• Reduces duplication of tests
• Reduces delays in treatments
• Health information is readily available
• Electronic prescriptions sent to pharmacy of your choice
• Prescriptions printed making them easier to read by you and the pharmacist
• Reduces the amount of paper in the office & in patient records
• It is an electronic version of a patients medical history, including medications, vital signs, past medical history immunizations, lab data, etc.
•  Electronic prescriptions and incentives for using it. Intergy EHR is part of Stimulus package. 
  For more information about our EHR please follow this link http://www.bradfordscott.com/med_prod_ehr.php

• Visibility of accepted and rejected claims
• Multiple search options such as patient, summary, rejection,  etc.
• View 15 months worth of claims history
• Multiple export options, including Excel and PDF formats
• Drill-down capabilities
• Graphical dashboard (as shown above) that relates claims $ amounts and accepted/rejected status

• Improved claim acceptance and payment results
• Reduce overhead for resolution of rejected claims
• One source view for management of all payers claims
• And best of all it is free - you only need Internet access
   

Medicare Claims Not Crossing Over to the Supplemental Insurer

National Government Services is informing all providers, physicians, and suppliers to an issue that occurred starting on or about January 1, 2010, and would have negatively impacted their patients' crossover claims.

National Government Services has learned that due to a system issue with the Common Working File (CWF), some claims are not crossing over to the supplemental insurance carrier for benefits.

CMS states that they are working on this issue and they further recommend that providers do the following; 
 

*         Examine your Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA) or standard paper remittance advice to determine if your patients' claims are identified as having been crossed over to your patients' supplemental insurers. Remittance Remark Code MA 18 will indicate your claim has crossed over to the supplemental insurer.

*        If you determine these claims were not crossed over, you are within your rights to submit claims to your patients' insurers for supplemental payment using methodologies acceptable to those entities.


We have taken support calls on this issue, this is just one example of the payer issues that Bradford-Scott Data corporation attempts to monitor to assist our clients with their medical billing software and claims issues. If at any time you have a question regarding an electronic rejection you have received on a report 05 or from a report 11 (payer issued) Please do not hesitate to contact our support line at (317) 713-2065 and we will do our best to assist you. For information on our Intergy medical billing software follow this link
http://www.bradfordscott.com/med_prod_practice.php

Bradford-Scott proudly offers Electronic Health Records from Sage

Intergy EHR focuses on enhancing data intake and improving management tools to allow you to work smarter by leveraging and sharing your practice's clinical data. Listed below are some of the benefits of using Intergy EHR/medical charting software;

• Guideline-driven care allows for preventive measures and treatments protocols
• Advanced clinical flow-sheets provide a view of a patient’s progress and treatment  effectiveness
• e-Prescribing enhances accuracy and provides interaction alerts
• Predictive Order Management allows for maximized workflow efficiencies
• New Document Templates for capturing consistent, codified data (using the Medcin® database) allow flexibility to modify the outcomes

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To Schedule a demonstration on our EHR software contact us at (317) 713-2065 or (800) 963-2732
 

• More detail about each claim received, including date sent and acknowledged by the payer.
• A Dashboard that outlines your top rejections as well as dollar amounts your rejections represent.
• The ability to search for specific claims.
• Claim History for 15 months.
• Ability to track claims by payer or provider.
• Capability to print a timely filing letter to send to a payer.

"Hey, saw my shadow. I hereby do predict 6 more weeks of winter. Last one to a PA ski lodge is an opossum. -- Phil"

First of all it is important to note that Bradford-Scott Data Corporation is not new to Medical software. Bradford-Scott has been surpassing clients needs in the medical areana for over 26 years now. How many software companies of any type can honestly say they have been assisting customers for over 26 years. Bradford-Scott is the largest medical software vendor in the midwest. The medical division of the company has become a channel partner with Sage, and now proudly offers Intergy by Sage. Intergy is our flagship product, and has a practice management and an EHR solution for just about every type of medical office:

Our market has grown along with the company and we currently serve the medical software needs of clients in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and , of course, the hoosier state. Our clients are as varied as the area in which we serve. We are currently serving the following types of clients:
 

• Hosptial owned and operated practices
• Billing services
• Intergy can be customized for the following specialties as well, orthopedics, cardiology, pediatrics,OBGYN's, ENT's and the list goes on and on, Intergy can be specialized for just about any type of specialty.
• Family practices
• eye doctors and chiropractors as well as psychological services.

Bradford-Scott  the largest medical software vendor in the Midwest has now added Intergy training to their classroom schedule. This is in addition to CBT's and Webinars that are offered to all new Intergy clients. Bradford-Scott is currently offering Intergy Daily Functions.  Intergy Daily Functions are those functions that may be used daily by your practice. While not all practices will use these functions daily, it familiarizes the student  with them in order to operate the system efficiently. This class includes some of the following:

• Patient registration
• charge and payment entry
• Journals and balancing, journal closes and the daily close
• Scheduling appointments, encounters, wait list and recalls.

• We have certified trainers who have been trained and tested on all the software products they support.
• Our trainers are not a separate department from support as is the case with most large software companies. The trainers are on phone support every week so we know what claims issues our clients are running into.
• The trainers have all worked in medical offices and organizations of one type or another so we really have been in the clients shoes.
• We not only train and support our clients but we also help them get their systems up and running when they go live on our EHR or Practice management software. This benefits the client as it allows our support to fully understand not only how the program should work but how things should be set up as well.
• Our current clients rated us as a 9.39 for customer service. This number is an average for all of customer service, software, sales and hardware so all the departments individually did this well or better.
• All calls are returned within 29 minutes and are normally returned within 7 minutes

• Patient registration
• charge and payment entry
• Journals and balancing, journal closes and the daily close
• Scheduling appointments, encounters, wait list and recalls.

Not that into Halloween this year? Are you seeing blue instead of orange. Don't feel like wasting your precious time decorating  your office for a holiday....simply to take down those same decorations and store them for another year. Maybe Halloween just crept up on you this year. No matter what the reason maybe a better use of your time would be to strategize about your medical software needs for 2010. Some things to consider are:

*Do you have to export information from your current medical billing software to excel to run any reports?

*Does your software provide you easy access to information?

* Is there a more efficient software that would surpass your business needs?

These are just a couple of the questions you will want to ask yourself, when considering new medical office software.

is pleased to offer Intergy by Sage, a completely integrates medical office billing software and EHR solution. For more information or to schedule a demo call (317) 713-2065 or visit us at

• Health managment reminders
• Reduced transcription costs
• Elimination of off site storage and related costs
• Instant access to patients clinical informtaion
• The ability to order and track labs
• Medication formularies

"Southwest Medical Associates, a 250-physician group affiliated with Nevada's largest private health insurer, has been paperless since 2008 after a four-year, $5 million EMR implementation, and has already recouped the expense in drug savings alone and likely prevented many errors.

The process, of course, is much more difficult for a small, low-margin, primary-care practice like that of Dr. Tony Alamo (if that's not a name made for Vegas, I don't know what is). His three-physician practice saved on software by agreeing to test a system being developed by a cardiologist friend, but still spent $30,000 on hardware, the Sun reports. Alamo, 45, has had to overcome 20 years of practicing with paper charts, a process he calls "cumbersome" and "difficult," but still refers to it as "my comfort zone." Now, he pulls up records on a computer and shares the information with patients on monitors in each exam room.

If a mid-career, primary-care doctor in a small practice can make the switch even before the federal stimulus, there's got to be hope for the hundreds of thousands of other physicians that still tote around manila folders, right? If you would like more information on an integrated EHR and practice management software solution check out Intergy by Sage." For more information on Intergy EHR or practice management software contact Bradford-Scott Data corportaion.

Find your IT career at Lee Memorial. Start with an incredible environment where beautiful Ft. Myers, Florida provides the backdrop to our high tech medical facilities. Then, add the chance to be part of a revolutionary new venture in healthcare and you’ve discovered the exciting IT career opportunities at Lee Memorial. 

Lee Memorial Health System is launching a $70M Epic Electronic Medical Record expansion enterprise-wide. This high-profile information system transformation project will have a strategic impact on the core operations and processes of the organization for both the inpatient and outpatient environments.

As the Epic Inpatient EMR Manager, you will be the champion for all projects in your portfolio across the institution and serve as a positive role model for encouraging others to embrace operational changes associated with the implementation and other application technology projects. In this role, you will be responsible for the successful planning and execution of the inpatient EMR systems as part of a multi-year, multi-facility, enterprise-wide clinical and revenue cycle systems implementation.  You will maintain the scope and work plan and ensure that all milestones and deliverables are on time and on budget, and lead and manage the development and implementation of the clinical applications for the inpatient setting as part of this high-profile information system transformation project.

As you can see the implementation of EHR and EMR software is changing the needs of business. If your organization is searching for an EHR, Bradford-Scott Data corporation is proud to offer Intergy EHR. For more information call 317-713-2065.