Year End Close for The Medical Manager Software
Many physician offices that we support using The Medical Manager practice management software will conduct a fiscal year end close in the coming days.
We have developed a set of instructions for Medical Manager users to follow for a successful year end close. Instructions for closing include
a year end report checklist
comprehensive year end close instructions
recommended year [...]
Remote Electronic Backups with Secure Offsite Data Storage
As an office manager, you are likely running a daily system backup to tapes. While that is a good routine that has worked for years, it doesn’t make it the quickest or most secure process for restoring critical patient information in today’s environment.
We’ve seen practices could NOT restore from backup due to corruption even though their [...]
Electronic Data Vaulting versus Tape Backups
Electronic data vaulting is the process of conducting a backup online and storing information remotely in a secure data center. The are a number of benefits for employing an electronic data vaulting strategy versus a tape backup inhouse:
Ease and speed of recovery. Your data is stored on the disk-based local data backup device as well as in [...]
e-Prescribing Adoption Rates. Where do you stand?
Since the e-prescribing webinars we hosted have taken place, we’re fielding more and more questions about eRx. While many of you are evaluating options for an e-prescribing system, adoption rates nationwide are still low. Why is that?
The Washington Post reports “Overall, just 2 percent of eligible prescriptions written in the United States are transmitted electronically, [...]
Fort Wayne Medical Manager User Meeting a Success
We’re happy to report that a successful Medical Manager User Meeting was
held in Fort Wayne, IN yesterday.
Customers in that area who use The Medical Manager software had suggested
that a group convene to network and share experiences like they had done in
years past. Harmony Healthcare IT was happy to coordinate the meeting
details and bring everyone [...]
ePrescribing Initiative FAQs from Webinar
In a former blog post, we wrote about Incentives to Doctors for Prescribing Electronically. In follow-up to that, we hosted several ePrescribing webinars to detail the incentive that the federal government is offering to physicians, effective January of 2009, through Medicare reimbursement. Our webinars yielded some questions that we thought would be beneficial to share.
Commonly [...]