Summer is officially here, and people around the country will be spending more time outside. We need sunshine in order to stay healthy, but too much of anything can become problematic.
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Dermatology Made Easier This Summer
Topics: telehealth, TeleVisits, eClinicalMobile, telemedicine, skin cancer screening, summer skin care, sunburn, dermatology
Disease Explorer: Effectiveness Through Cohorts
What would you do if you found yourself facing a complex and seemingly insoluble problem that might well be a matter of life and death? You might do what the Romans did — use a cohort-based system.
Topics: Population Health, Disease Explorer
A Behavioral Health Module That Behaves Like One
Wisconsin FQHC quickly transforms clinical practice
A Fortune Business Insights report estimates that the market for Behavioral Health grew by 11.3% in 2020, driven in large part by societal stresses from the COVID-19 pandemic. From $77.6 billion in 2021, the report projects spending on Behavioral Health will reach $99.4 billion by 2028.
Topics: podcast, behavioral health, EHR behavioral health
eClinicalWorks Day Is Back — and Coming to Your Area
Live, free, and full of knowledge your practice can use
Do you remember the excitement you felt as a child when you knew your birthday was getting close? Or that blockbuster movie was finally released? Or how about when you were a teenager and learned that your favorite band was coming to a city near you — and you finally had enough money to buy a ticket?
Topics: eClinicalWorks Day, eCW Day
The Best of Healthcare IT in the Heart of America
Witham Health Services grows and succeeds with eCW and healow
Indiana likes to style itself “The Crossroads of America,” and for better than half its history, Witham Memorial Hospital — now part of the Witham Health Services system — has been serving residents who live just north of the capital city of Indianapolis.
HEDIS: Completing the Picture of Patients’ Health
Last month we discussed the importance of three letters in a discussion of how Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) coding helps calculate risk, predict expenditures, and determine reimbursements. This month, we look at five letters — HEDIS® — that complement HCC.
Topics: HEDIS
How eClinicalWorks RCM Service Boosts Efficiency
Sometimes rightsize is the right word
When the word rightsize entered the English language about 1985, employees in many industries soon learned that when the boss started using that word, they were just looking for a gentler way to say downsize. In short, it was time to look for a new job.
Who Are the 29 Million Americans Who Use Health Centers?
According to the 2022 Chartbook from the National Association of Community Health Centers, more than 29 million Americans rely upon community health centers as their primary source of healthcare.
Topics: Health Centers, documentation, community health center, PRISMA, neighborhood health center, family health center, student health center, value, SDOH
HCC: More than Just Letters, They Are Key to Coding and Care
Remember eating alphabet soup as a child and gathering those tiny letters made from pasta to spell your name? Well, getting the right letters together still matters, and in the healthcare world, three letters to pay close attention to are HCC.
Topics: Population Health, HCC, Hierarchical Conditional Category coding, HCC programs, hierarchical condition category
Focusing on Public Health: Staying Connected With the Community
Although we once again are beginning to spend in person time with our friends, families, and loved ones, there is still much work to be done to expand access to care and improve social, physical, and mental health for all.
Topics: National Public Health Week, World Health Day, Public Health
Honoring All Our Doctors
Take time to say thanks on National Doctors’ Day
We’re all familiar with those “greeting card” holidays that turn out to be more marketing than substance. But when you examine National Doctors’ Day, the diagnosis is clear: It’s the real thing.
Topics: National Doctors' Day
HIMSS22 Outlines Opportunities in Healthcare
Time travel is still the stuff of science fiction, but after two years of a global pandemic, attending a live healthcare conference sure felt like a paradigm shift.
In some ways, the 2022 HIMSS Annual Global Health Conference & Exhibition, held in Orlando in mid-March, felt like early 2020, with in-person conversations, presentations, and networking.
Topics: Population Health, telehealth, Patient Relationship Management, remote patient monitoring, PRISMA, healow TeleVists, remote patient management, HIMSS22, network EHR
The First Step: Patient-Centered Medical Home
To get started with Population Health, there’s no place like PCMH
Just as no building can long endure without a strong foundation, medical practices that hope to grow and thrive in an age of value-based healthcare need to build upon fundamentals.
Topics: Population Health, PCMH
3 Ways that healow Pay Helped a Growing Primary Care Practice
When you’re a smaller medical practice, every edge counts toward success. During the heart of the pandemic, providers at Innova Primary Care, a seven-provider practice serving over 4,700 patients in Huntsville, Alabama, used eClinicalWorks® and healow® solutions to grow their practice.
Topics: healow Payment Services, electronic payment, healow pay, contactless payment
The Network EHR, PRISMA, and Beyond
eClinicalWorks to exhibit revolutionary technologies at HIMSS22
In the mid-1980s, computer science pioneer John Gage coined the phrase “the network is the computer” to describe the revolutionary work at Sun Microsystems. Some 40 years later, eClinicalWorks® is giving Gage’s phrase a twist as we continue to reimagine healthcare IT.
Topics: HIMSS, PRISMA, HIMSS22, network EHR