Power Your Practice

It’s been a cloudy, rainy week for us at Power Your Practice – a rarity here at our Miami headquarters. To counteract the gloominess outside, we spent the last few days shining light on a wealth of ways for you to improve your practice.

We hope the material, ranging from a piece illuminating the pervasiveness of outdated EHR code to an article on how casting light on your pricing can help your patients, brightened up your week.

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Primary care in the U.S. is undergoing a transformation — from physician-centered practices to patient-focused teams. An outpouring of energy, thought, and work has gone into this transformation, and a clear picture of this new primary care practice is emerging.

To understand how practices are approaching the creation of a successful patient-centered medical home, the research team of the California HealthCare Foundation conducted site visits and extensive interviews with the leadership and all levels of staff at seven high-performing primary care practices.

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While only one letter differentiates EHR and EMR, that little variation makes a big difference. Oftentimes the two terms are used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing.

To elucidate the differences in the two system types, explain why EHRs make it easier to attest for Meaningful Use, and illuminate how they can improve patient management and outcomes, Power Your Practice is parsing out the technological disparities between EMRs and EHRs in the “End of EMR” article series.

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Despite the vital significance of health and wellness in patients’ lives, evidence is proving that in the modern economic environment, one of the biggest decision-making factors people face regarding healthcare and treatment is not medically motivated – it’s financial.

Research from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics found that visits to the doctor by U.S. patients fell 4.7 percent from 2010 to 2011. The number of prescriptions issued declined by 1.1 percent. The reason? Patients are cutting back on healthcare spending due to financial hardship.

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