http://blog.harmonyhit.com Healthcare Information Technology Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:12:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “Healthcare Legacy Data Management, an Overview of Data Archiving and System Decommissioning with Rick Adams” is the title of a new executive interview series published by Harmony Healthcare IT. In the interview, Rick Adams, the Managing Partner of Harmony Healthcare IT, talks about many of the issues that IT leaders ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2013/04/24/healthcare-legacy-data-management-archiver/ Legacy data management and health data archiving are some of the topics covered in a recent interview by Harmony Healthcare IT’s Managing Partner, Rick Adams. In this wide ranging interview, Rick answers questions on how health data archiving has evolved over the years as well as where it is headed. When ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2013/04/22/healthcare-legacy-data-management-interview-series/ Physician Turnover Rates At An All-Time High According to findings released 3/18/13 from the 8th annual Physician Retention Survey from Cejka Search and the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), physician turnover rates are at an all-time high.  As physicians depart or retire from a practice, the need to archive electronic protected ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2013/03/26/physician-turnover-rates-increase-health-data-archive-need-on-the-rise/ Need to send a mass communication out to your patient population from Vitera Medical Manager(r)?  We can help. Harmony Healthcare IT is a health IT firm that happens to supports thousands of providers using the Vitera Medical Manager practice management system.  Often times, these medical practices require data extraction services so ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2013/03/18/data-extraction-from-vitera-medical-manager-software/ Time to buy a new server for your Medical Manager software?  Investigate before you invest!  Rather than buy new, you can utilize a server from our data center for a fixed monthly fee and eliminate the hassles of server maintenance and back-up routines. What is a Hosted Medical Manager Server Solution? As ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/12/10/server-hosting-for-medical-manager-software-users/ Medical practices migrating off of The Medical Manager® software may be at risk. That old system contains individually-identifiable protected health information (PHI) that, according to state and federal mandates, must be secured and archived for at least 7-10 years. Maintaining your Medical Manager system for that length of ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/11/12/helping-former-users-of-medical-manager-properly-archive-the-data/ As reported by HealthDay News, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics has found that over half of US doctors are utilizing some sort of electronic health record (EHR).  What's more, 85% of those surveyed indicate satisfaction with the system's operation in their day-to-day workflow.  We're very pleased with this ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/07/18/new-cdc-survey-over-half-of-us-physicians-adopt-an-ehr/ Medical practices migrating off of legacy practice management software may be at risk.  That old system contains individually-identifiable protected health information (PHI) that, according to state and federal mandates, must be secured for 7-10 years at a minimum.  Maintaining a system and its architecture for that long may entail support ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/07/03/protecting-phi-is-your-practice-at-risk/ Your practice, along with thousands of others, has managed its cash flow with The Medical Manager® software for decades.  Widely installed across multiple specialties and group sizes, it just works. Protect Your Investment and Your Cash Flow. As the government encourages physicians to adopt electronic health records (EHR), many users are evaluating their options ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/06/12/medical-manager-software-support-getting-more-for-less/ As released by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today, CMS will end its enforcement discretion period for Version 5010 standards on June 30, 2012. This means that medical practices must be fully compliant with all of the upgraded transaction standards for ASC X12 Version 5010 (Version 5010) by ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/06/07/cms-5010-deadline/ Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE), a business partner of Harmony Healthcare IT's, was recently rated by KLAS as one of the nation's top SaaS-based EMR providers in the healthcare IT industry. KLAS, one of the best-known and most widely respected healthcare research firms, reported that MIE earned an overall performance score ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/05/24/harmony-offers-top-performing-klas-rated-saas-based-ehr-to-medical-manager-users/ Commonly called "remote backups," data vaulting is the process of sending a copy of your data off-site to protect against disasters which render your local data unrecoverable.  Many medical offices are replacing their antiquated tape back-up processes with this newer and more reliable approach to data management. These secure remote backup ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/05/14/medical-offices-replacing-tape-backups-with-data-vaulting-aka-remote-backups/ If your practice is looking to get custom data out of The Medical Manager(r) practice management system or the electronic health record (EHR) that is interfaced to it -- look no further. Harmony Healthcare IT offers an analytics product that gives you access to more data from your current applications, including ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/04/16/analytics-from-the-medical-manager-software/ Government incentives and industry promotion play role in converting solo practices to paperless technology Small medical offices with one or two physicians in the practice are the fastest-growing segment for adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) software, according to the latest results of an ongoing study by SK&A, A Cegedim Company, a ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/03/26/small-medical-offices-take-lead-in-growth-of-ehr-adoption-according-to-ska-study/ Each month, Harmony Healthcare IT, a provider of technology support to medical practices, offers a variety of content-rich webinars.  On Wed., 4/11/12 at 11am EST, be sure to attend the "Automated Patient Appointment Reminders for The Medical Manager(r)" webinar to be held for 20-minutes plus Q&A. This webinar ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/03/23/webinar-automated-patient-appointment-reminders-for-the-medical-managerr-on-41112-at-11am-est/ Each month, Harmony Healthcare IT, a provider of technology support to medical practices, offers a variety of content-rich webinars.  On Tues., 4/10/12 at 11am EST, be sure to attend the "EHR for The Medical Manager(r)" webinar to be held for 30-minutes plus Q&A. This session is for office managers who want ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/03/22/webinar-ehr-for-the-medical-managerr-on-410-at-11am-est/ The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS) says it will not initiate enforcement action against any non-compliant entities for an additional three (3) months, through June 30, 2012, for updated HIPAA transaction standards (ASC X12 Version 5010, NCPDP Versions D.0 and 3.0). Still ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/03/16/5010-enforcement-pushed-out-to-063012/ Harmony Healthcare IT's leading provider of Web-based revenue cycle management technology solutions for healthcare providers, ZirMed®, has been ranked #1 for direct vendors and received the highest score of all the measured clearinghouse services rated in KLAS’ 2011 report “Ambulatory Clearinghouse 2011: Dollars, Sense & 5010 Readiness”. Highest Ranking Functional Strength of ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/03/08/zirmed-recognized-as-top-direct-vendor-in-klas-ambulatory-clearinghouse-report/ The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced the proposed requirements for Stage 2 Meaningful Use and 2014 certification of electronic health records. Following a 60-day comment period after the proposals are published to the federal register, the final rule is ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/02/23/ehr-meaningful-use-stage-2-proposals-released/ The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) has updated its EHR Incentive Programs website with a new Clinical Quality Measures page.   The page contains information about the core and optional clinical quality measures and how to report on them.  Clinical Quality Measures, also known as CQMs, are a mechanism for assessing observations, ... http://blog.harmonyhit.com/2012/02/17/clinical-quality-measures-page-added-to-cms-ehr-incentives-programs-website/