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Physician Burnout: Decreasing Documentation Through Digital Technology
By utilizing technology to promote patient engagement, you can lower the burden on providers by putting documentation in patients’ hands.
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Avoiding Physician Burnout From COVID-19
Beyond keeping up with the latest tips and trends for treating COVID-19, it’s essential that you attempt to decrease your stress level and avoid unchecked burnout.
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Patient Engagement Technology: Essential for Small and Independent Physician Practices
Do you remember the last time you had an extensive conversation with your primary care physician about your overall health? No? Me, either. As you know from your line of work, many doctors are so busy these days with administrative tasks and reporting
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How to Integrate Social Determinants of Health into Your Workflows to Provide Better Patient Care
The issue of the high cost of healthcare in the United States is nothing new. As someone who works in the healthcare industry, you already know that. Our country’s spending in this area is approximately $3.3 trillion. That’s almost double
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HCC Risk Scoring and Value-based Payments: An Overview
There have been a bevy of articles on value-based care over the past decade, and you’ve probably read at least a few of them. Instead of boring you with the same old description, we’re going to focus on a few
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Addressing Value-based Care Through EHR Reporting
People resist change. That’s nothing new. For some individuals, adjusting to the use of technology in everyday life, especially over the past couple decades, has been especially challenging. So many processes are now automated, seemingly for ease of use. One big
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Healthcare Technology Trends: Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Many healthcare organizations in this country are increasing their focus on SDOH and the effect on patient care, especially in the shift to value-based care. A recent study found that more than 80 percent of payers are integrating SDOH into
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Why the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit should be a High Priority in your Practice
Mark Twain once said that “age is an issue of mind over matter; if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” While this is true in theory, many people face increasing health issues as they get older. However, by receiving preventive
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Making the Most Out of MIPS
Here’s the deal: A few years ago, the United States government passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, referred to as “MACRA.” As you probably already know, MACRA replaces the current Medicare reimbursement schedule with a new pay-for-performance program designed
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How I Hired My Uber Driver… and The Thin Threads of Life
Last week, I posted an announcement that one of my employees is taking on a new role as the Athena Channel Manager. Almost two years ago to the day of that post, we hired this employee after I met her