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If 2012 promises anything for physicians, it’s a year full of IT challenges. Whether it’s Version 5010 compliance, the achievement of EHR meaningful use or the sharing of data with HIEs and ACOs; there will be some work to do on the technology front. The problem is that many physicians don’t employ a full-time resource dedicated to researching, [...]
EHR Meaningful Use to “The Cloud”
Fierce Health IT has published a couple of articles about the movement of healthcare providers to cloud computing. The articles were spurred by a recent report from KLAS Research. Here is an excerpt from their editor’s corner:
In a survey that ran the gamut from small clinics to 1,000-bed hospitals, KLAS found that 55 percent of [...]
The Top 5 Challenges for Practice Managers
For four years now, medical practice professionals have responded to the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) about their biggest daily professional challenges, as well as their struggles to adapt their professions and practices to a time of rapid change, legislative pressure and fiscal uncertainty.
According to the MGMA 2011 “Medical Practice Today: What Members Have to [...]
Tax Write-off for Equipment Purchases by Year End
If your medical practice has plans to make information technology purchases (i.e., computers, monitors, servers, etc.) in early 2011, consider accelerating your capital expenditures into the fourth quarter of 2010.
Doing so may allow you to take advantage of a new small business tax cut which provides immediate incentive to invest under the Small Business Job [...]
Health Data Archiving for Legacy Practice Management Systems
Harmony Healthcare IT’s Health Data Archiver stores data from old practice management systems that are being retired or replaced.
The data from the practice management system, in its entirety and with full data integrity, is archived to a universally-accepted standard format, catalogued for easy access and viewed via a browser. Patient accounts are accessed by searching on name, date of [...]
Custom HL7 Interfaces for The Medical Manager Software
The Medical Manager (r) * software continues to live on thousands of physician desktops nationwide as a dependable practice management system of choice. As the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) executes on the Obama Administration’s plan to implement an interoperable Health IT infrastructure nationwide, these Medical Manager systems will need to talk to hospitals, [...]
Accessing Data from a Retired Practice Management System
As more and more medical practices move to electronic health records, they may be retiring a legacy practice management system with years of historical demographic, financial, and clinical data.
At Harmony Healthcare IT, we provide an affordable solution that allows secure, web-based access to the historical patient account information — in full detail.
Access full patient account detail in [...]
Healthcare Data Vaulting Webinar on Twitter
Understand the benefits of data vaulting versus traditional tape backups for your medical practice. Join us for a webinar on 3/25/09 at 10am EST and/or follow the content on Twitter.com/HarmonyHIT. Registration information (dial-in and login) is available by calling Tricia at 800-781-1044.
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 [...]
Errors and Failures and Crashes — Oh My!
Software errors out, servers fail, harddrives crash, data gets corrupted, storms strike, people make mistakes — so goes life. Anyone who administers healthcare information technology knows that “things happen.”
The question is — how do you recover from errors and failures and system crashes? Our answer: electronic data vaulting. Electronic data vaulting offers a completely secure [...]
Reduce Patient No-Show Rates by up to 50%
If your practice is not taking advantage of modern-day technologies to remind patients about their appointments, it’s time to start. Using email and the telephone, we have an automated appointment reminder system that will
reduce patient no-show rates by up to 50%
drive additional revenue to the practice
improve patient communications and satisfaction
affect positive patient outcomes
Our patient appointment [...]
Create a backup verification strategy for your medical practice
A full system backup is like an insurance policy for your medical practice. Whether you’re under-insured or not depends on how well the backup is performing.
So . . . how well is your backup performing? Maybe you never think about it. Maybe you trust a daily verification printout that tells you everything is a-okay.
Well, guess [...]
Disaster waiting to happen?
As storms hit the Midwest, it’s a good idea to be ready should lightning strike. At a minimum, that means doing a daily backup with media that is replaced at least annually.
As a safeguard, store the media for your medical practice in an offsite fire-proof safe.
We can restore your data from a reliable backup. Want to verify that your daily backup [...]