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By Ellen B. Goad, LDO
Successful conversion to electronic health records requires an educated doctor ready to take the lead—and a staff that sees the long-range benefits.
By Scott A. Jens, OD, FAAO
By Mary Anne C. Murphy, OD
Use your electronic health record software to extract information about your patients and refine your marketing efforts.
By Kim Castleberry, OD
An integrated EHR system improves accuracy between co-managing doctors, speeds reimbursement and can cut labor costs.
By Ryan C., Wineinger, OD
Electronic health records, combined with patient recall software, can track annual exam schedules and put more patients in your exam chair.
By John Todd Cornett, OD
Data loss happens. In an instant, vast amounts of vital records can disappear, but you cannot afford an interruption in service to your patients. Before a catastrophe strike. you need to develop protocols to deal with sudden data loss.
By implementing electronic health record software in your practice, you can make the billing and coding process more efficient, and thereby improve your insurance reimbursements.
By James Kirchner, OD
You can improve your transition from paper to electronic health records by carefully researching EHR software, and making strategic plans to implement the one you choose.
By ROB Editors
When it comes to practice management software and electronic medical records, change really is the only constant, says Kim Castleberry, OD, who runs a $2 million a year practice, Plano Eye Associates, in Plano, Texas (www.planoeye.com).
Back in 1991, Dr. Castleberry began using OfficeMate practice management and its ExamWRITER package for handling electronic medical records. He was among the first ODs...
The practice of Thomas J. Overberg, OD, in Fremont, Ohio, (www.droverberg.com) has been paperless since 1996. Why did he make the switch so early?
“First, I could not read my own writing,” he says. “Second, I learned that if an insurance carrier audited your charts, you could be fined for the portion of your records that were not legible.”
Dr. Overberg’s start-up costs for both software and hardware were about $20,000. He realized a total return on that investment in the first year with increased efficiency...