Financing Technology

Expert advice for turning your back office staff into billing and collections all-stars.

You’re probably already doing the work. Get paid for more of it.

Accepting payment via credit card is one way to improve patient collections. But medical practices must take precautions to ensure that their patients’ personal information remains protected.

An independent specialty group has improved patient relations and grown the practice by investing in advanced practice management and patient engagement tools.

Healthcare organizations are always looking to save money, but physicians rarely know the effect of their treatments or medications. Here's how to change that.

Why it's important that your practice management system can integrate with the EHR and six other features it must have.

The chief innovation officer at UPMC says that improved usability in IT systems isn't about interfaces - it's about fitting into a doctor's work flow.

Even with potential meaningful use incentives from the government, small practices have to get creative with tech investments.

The most successful practices prioritize training of technology tools to optimize the revenue cycle. Here are five tips to keeping staff up to speed.

While there are more tools than ever within the EHR, many providers are still not using them to their fullest. There are multiple reasons why.

Experts weigh in on how effective teamwork can boost the bottom line. Here are five tips to developing a winning strategy.

Physician engagement in health IT selection and implementation is "a must," says a fellow physician. Here's how to make it a reality at your practice.

It's time to start budget planning for 2015 and that should include IT expenses. Here are eight areas of focus for your medical practice.

If your practice is not getting the most out of its EHR, here are three tips to get your vendor to make it right.

When your EHR is no longer working for your practice, it may be time to search for a new product.

Considering the cloud for your medical practice data? Here are four strategies to get your medical practice more familiar with this health IT solution.

Get data from this year's 2014 Technology Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, on EHR implementation, mobile technology, meaningful use, and other health IT issues.

The debate over pros and cons of health IT persist, but to find success in your medical practice you need one key element: buy-in from the key players.

CMS considers EHR incentive payments to be income, not reimbursement for expenses incurred through system implementation. Physicians need to be aware of this distinction.

The U.S. EHR market is projected to reach $9.3 billion by 2015, the largest worldwide, thanks in part to meaningful use incentives, says a new Accenture study.

Want to avoid costly EHR mistakes at your medical practice? I proffer the following, which I call the 'Order-of-Magnitude Heuristic.'

With the deadline for the end of support and updates for Windows XP, here are five important steps for your practice to avoid HIPAA and HITECH Act violations.

As patients shoulder more of their healthcare costs, practices must step up patient payment collections efforts. Here are some tips.

Here's how to determine what technology purchasing route is right for your practice.

Physicians very often have a clear vision of how things could be improved at their practices. What would you do if money was no object?

Since 2011, only one in every two or three physicians has attested to the Stage 1 rules of meaningful use. Why should this matter to your practice?

How practices are using creative financial strategies to keep up with the latest technology - and afford their EHRs.

Which tools are your peers buying and how are they using them? Our 2013 Technology Survey has the answers.

It's time for complete cooperation between vendors of hardware and software solutions to increase interoperability with EHRs sooner than later.