Fight Health Worries|Healthy Living Techniques

If you are on a strict budget, there is software that can help you out, EZClaim.  I have used and installed this software a client locations and it does what is says it does.  It is not practice management, but rather advanced billing software.  You can find a link to EZClaim under the resources area on the right hand side.  There are 2 versions, one for paper billing and the Advanced version, which is what I recommend and it can also be installed over an office network.  Many other systems can also connect to EZClaim. 

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Last week the Roanoke Times published an excellent editorial on the lack of disciplinary action taken by the Board of Medicine against Virginia doctors. Some of the more interesting observations included:

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As many have now observed, electronic medical records products on the market are clunky, fail to support the cognitive and workflow needs of clinicians, contribute to clinician cognitive overload and increased clerical work burden, and may be harming patients at a rate far higher than, say, VIOXX, which was summarily withdrawn from the market to be followed by billions of dollars of lawsuits.

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This is funnyhow do you help all those passionate happy people? 

Symptoms include Personalized License plates, Christmas Caroling, and Organizing Neighborhood Potlucks.  I might add socializing on Twitter could also be a  potential symptom, or is that a side effect (grin), ask your doctor.  BD

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From the New York Daily News, here is a new twist on the conflicts of interest story. This is about two leaders of Wyckoff Medical Center in my hometown of Brooklyn, NY, the hospital’s chief of surgery, Dr Addagada Rao, and its CEO, Rajiv Garg.

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The settlement has to do with billing, as MedQuist is a service providing dictation services.  The COO has also been barred for being an officer of a public company for the next 5 years as well.  BD 

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This is sad and inexcusable and hopefully justice will be found here.  BD 

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The machines have already been in use in Toronto, Canada for a few months, the green machines.  One comment I cant let pass is if you are a physician and havent started e-prescribing yet, these machines only take e-prescribing, just something to think about as their existence  might push that envelope. 

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At “Wal-Mart to market Electronic Medical Records? Has Medicine Gone Bananas?” I noted the entry of Walmart into the healthcare IT fray.

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I have no clue as to whether or not this is true, but the writer discusses why he believes this will happen.  You can read for yourself and form your own opinion here, and the media will let us all know if and when something monumental as such occurs.  From the retail store portion of the business plan it would make sense to compete heads up with Apple and have branded hardware available for purchase when the stores open.  It would also allow for ready to go packages with hardware and software loaded and ready to carry out the door or order on the web.

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