Are you looking for a quick, easy way to streamline your workflow, make patient visits more productive and help your practice run more smoothly? If so, you should consider giving patients the option of virtual office visits. What is a Virtual Office Visit? A virtual office visit...
Chances are, if you began your career as a healthcare clinician, you never thought about transferring those skills into a career in health IT. But, it just might be something to consider. With healthcare organizations, hospitals and practices nationwide scrambling to meet the EMR conversion deadline,...
What is your organization's long-term plan for acquiring top healthcare IT talent? If your answer is job boards, candidate databases, or hiring a staffing firm, you don't have a long-term plan for success. Why? Because if you're focused on just staffing your organization, you're not hiring...
Health IT experts are among the most sought after professionals in the workforce, but that alone isn't enough to get you hired. In fact, while your education and experience are important, they mean nothing if you can't quickly convince an employer you're the person for...
Do you know the quickest way to advance your career in health IT? The answer is to specialize. In almost any industry--not just health IT--specialists are in higher demand and command higher salaries because of their expertly-focused knowledge. As a health IT professional, you've already...
In recent weeks, we've talked a lot about EMR conversion and creative ways to find staff to complete those projects by the deadline. But what we haven't mentioned is what is, undoubtedly, the number one question on the minds of many primary care providers and...
As a healthcare professional, you're well aware of the fast approaching EMR conversion deadline. And chances are, you're wondering just how you'll find the staff with the right mix of clinical knowledge and IT expertise to achieve meaningful use by the 2014 deadline. Your concerns...
Have you ever been to a HIMSS conference? I attended the most recent--my first--last month in Las Vegas. If you haven't been to a HIMSS conference, you have no idea what you're missing. The sheer magnitude of the HIMSS event is overwhelming: imagine more than 60,000...
If you're like most hospitals or private healthcare practices, you're not even close to being ready for the EMR deadline. But failing to get ready in time could cost you. EMR Deadline 2014 Under the American Recovery and Reimbursement Act (ARRA) of 2009, all medical records in...
Not surprisingly, the use of Smartphones and other mobile devices has taken the health IT industry by storm. According to a December 2011 study by the Ponemon Institute, 81% of doctors use a Smartphone to access patient information; that's up from 72% in 2010. The...