Daytona Beach, FL, Feb 18, 2011 – WorkSmart MD, Inc. announced today it will provide Free EMR software to its physician clients that utilize its medical billing and practice management services. On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the HITECH Act which includes provisions to promote the use of Electronic Medical Records and authorizes incentive [...]

December 13, 2010 WorkSmart MD Announces Specialized A/R Recovery Service to Help Physicians Maximize Revenue The average single physician practice has accounts receivable in excess of $200,000 and aging balance purchase viagra uk s that are approaching 12 months old. According to the Physician Coalition for Health Information Technology (PCHIT) the average physician office collects [...]

While the promise of electronic health records is alluring there are still many questions and obstacles that make it possible to transition from the simply paper-based SOAP documentation to an seamless integration of an electronic system. Key challenges include financing the conversion from paper to computerized records, designing the work flow, making systems easier to [...]

It's estimated that fewer than 7% of providers in the small physician practice (1-10 physicians) have adopted and are successfully demonstrating use of electronic health record system. The reasons vary from cost to fears and myths about the “inefficiencies”, and concerns that “the government still hasn't told us what the standards are.” Doctors and other [...]

Electronic medical records (EMRs) have a bad reputation among many physicians for generating progress notes that are so verbose and filled with standard phrases that they are nearly useless to other physicians, and even to the physician who produced the note in the first place. This is in part because rather than engineering the EMR to produce a note intentionally efficient and effective for users looking at the note on a computer monitor, many EMR users choose to create a record familiar to them from years of use of paper charts. A note documenting a patient visit really serves only 3 purposes. First it is a clinical note documenting the patient’s history, findings on exam, and the assessment and plan of care. This is ideally efficient to generate, easy to review, and have the information needed in future visits in an easy to see and understand format. Secondly the note is a legal document, providing documentation of care and advice provided, and needs to be useful in case of a legal challenge. Third it needs to document the care done to justify billing and assure payment by third party payers. A good note does all of these things. In many EMR systems the last two are done well, but the clinical usefulness of the note is very poor.