Building ehealth solutions

Inadequacy of the Current Telehealth Solutions in the Market
Inadequacy of the Current Telehealth Solutions in the Market

In a previous blog, we establish why we needed Telehealth. We even cited the miraculous real-life story of Dr. FitzGerald((Hevesi, Dennis. "Jerri FitzGerald, 57, Dies; Treated Own Cancer at South Pole)), who had her life...

The eHealth Exchange and Interoperability in HIE

Technology is taking over. There is no denying that. If you go to a mall, a movie theater, a sporting event, or any other place...

Using Bots in Patient Portals

Practical uses for artificial intelligence have long been only theoretical, but these technologies and applications have been evolving so rapidly that we are now in...

Leveraging Tech To Ease The Prior Authorization Burden

Prior authorization and pre-approval has been a pain for providers for nearly 40 years. While, in theory, it ensures that patients do not pay out...

EHRs Built with Cognitive Design Could Lead to Happier Providers

EHR system usage is cited as one of the reasons for an increased burnout rate in healthcare providers. This is problematic, since it could lead...

Clearinghouses and EHR: How to Make Them Work for You

Many of you already know what a clearinghouse is. For the uninitiated, a claims clearinghouse is the conduit through which claims are submitted to various...

Cloud Security and Data Protection in Healthcare

In February 2015, around 80 million people were affected by healthcare data breach at Health insurer Anthem. In January same year 11 million patient data was compromised...

7 Authorized Mobile Health Apps for you!

Health industry is now Mobile! And we know that there is no looking back, since the use of mobile in the health industry is set...

Electronic Health Records

APIs: The Solution to Data Migration Challenges
APIs: The Solution to Data Migration Challenges

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and digital health advances are making a positive impact on the lives of providers and their patients. However, the standard cookie cutter EHR space is crowded and has started to...

Why are Multi-Specialty Clinics Becoming so Popular?

We like things being easy and convenient. Is that a false statement? I don’t think so. We all would like to get to our #fitnessgoals...

High Tech Solutions for a Low Tech Population – Healthcare IT
High Tech Solutions for a Low Tech Population – Healthcare IT

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation a person’s risk of premature death is 40% related to individual behavior, 30% genetics, 20% environment, and just 10% due to access to healthcare.((Artiga, Samantha, and Elizabeth Hinton. “Beyond...

Implementation of an EHR System: What does it look like?

What do you, the healthcare provider, need? As we have shown, with our previous blogs, articles, press releases, demos and any and all other written...

Unified Patient Record(UPR): Why You Should Care about It

EHR vendors are working hard to create interoperable systems; systems that can transfer and receive data without losing its integrity. They are doing this to...

Benefits of an Integrated EHR and Medical Billing System

We know why EHRs are important. That’s a topic that has been exhaustively discussed. I mean, we accept its importance so much that even the...

Federally Qualified Health Centers(FQHCs) and EHR Adoption

What are FQHCs? Well, they “are nonprofit, community-directed health care providers serving low-income and medically-underserved communities. FQHCs provide quality, affordable primary and preventive care for...

Integrated Care EHR and the Need for Offline Mode

Only 47% of the world has access to the internet((Taylor, Adam. "47 Percent of the World's Population Now Use the Internet, Study Says.")). That leaves...

Health IT universe

The Counseling Compact – Legislative News
The Counseling Compact – Legislative News

The Counseling Compact is a recent Mental Health advancement for providers who may wish to be licensed in multiple states. Legislation had postponed the movement until they had the approval of ten US states. In...

Emergency Interventions via Telehealth How to Be Prepared for Crisis

In today's world, it's important to be prepared for times of crisis. Emergency interventions via Telehealth are pivotal, and all mental health providers must be...

July Is Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month is an annual observance which was created to bring attention to the unique mental health needs...

Mental Health Awareness; Let's Practice Year-Round!

The World Health Organization describes Mental Health as not just the absence of a mental health disorder. It can be described as a state of...

Why the Reduction in Telehealth is Detrimental to Behavioral Health Providers

The COVID-19 Pandemic is and was one of the greatest tragedies we’ve seen in this current day and age. The world had lost so many...

Oracle, Cerner and the Unified Medical Record

And yet another Goliath is stumbling to take the hill. The assumption is that size and heft matters in finding a solution to the scattered...

Ignore your customers: Reid Hoffman and VC influence

I respect Reid Hoffman. He and the “PayPal mafia” have fundamentally changed the way most of us think about building and scaling businesses. But I...

Mental Health: The Need For A Routine During COVID-19

Wake up at 8:45 AM, wash your face, fix your hair, put on a presentable top and join a Zoom meeting for work. Follow this...

Opensource in Healthcare

10 questions when deciding to go open source (or with OpenEMR)
10 questions when deciding to go open source (or with OpenEMR)

1. Is the EHR cost efficient? Open source EHR is an incredible opportunity to create a near-perfect EHR system from scratch (and OpenEMR is a good place to start). But it also means that the...