Why use Technical Doctor Inc IT Support!

1. We are IT savvy and well rounded in the healthcare space 2. We talk to our customers in terms they understand 3. We are effective with multitasking 4. We turn complex scenarios into simple and secure solutions  5. Our company is a team not an individual 6. We are well versed in all EHRs 7. We have state-of the art IT support tools to manage your infrastructure 8. Over $100,000 spent on internal infrastrucure The health of Technical Doctor was created by our love for healthcare and Physicians Practices. We understand the economy, patient care, cost of service and especially IT necessities within a practice. We’d like to heal and assist and soften the paradigm shift into healthcare technology with exceptional support with a cost savings perspective. “We don’t need an IT department!...

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Choosing Right Hardware for your practice

One of the most frequent questions I get from practices selecting an EHR revolves around the IT hardware they should purchase. The first and foremost important piece of advice is to talk to your EHR vendor to determine the technical requirements of their system and any recommendations they have regarding hardware for your practice. In addition, ask if they resell any hardware and, if so, what the advantages are of purchasing directly through the vendor. Before going any further, let me emphasize that any reference to specific companies and products is used only as an example and in no way indicates a recommendation or endorsement of the given product or company. Laptops vs. Desktops When considering if you want to use laptops or desktops in your exam room consider how you want to interact...

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The Use of Tablets in the World of EMRs

With a growing number of physicians adopting tablet PCs for their EMR implementations, EMR vendors and IT manufacturers are looking to build compatible native systems to facilitate user-friendly and efficient EMR execution. From table desktops to thin clients and now the tablet, EMRs have been tried and tested on a variety of hardware, each bringing its own benefits and drawbacks. However, the striking surge in EMR adoption on tablet PCs has made providers sit up and take notice of this remarkably promising technology.   Evolution of Tablets in the EMR Space The tablet technology has found a significant number of users in the healthcare industry. A survey conducted by Manhattan Research reveals that practitioners are leaning...

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TIPS FOR PHYSICIANS FOR A GOOD DICTATION

Know your Dictation Equipment: Make sure you have read the manual once when using a new microphone. Make sure there is little or no background noise when recording on the microphone. Keep silent gaps of a couple of seconds at the start and end of each recording to avoid the voice being clipped during processing. Always state the full name and contact information of the patient, date and time of the interaction being captured for better offline reference. Spell out Medical Terms to make sure they are captured properly, this is a must in case of manual transcription. Do not use slang or short forms unless...

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How an expert helps you with EHR Selection?

Implementing an EHR can be a time consuming and an expensive affair.  It requires you in most cases to devote a full time staff for the implementation process.  Also the selection of the right EHR is critical to maintain practice efficiency, productivity, and its financial stability and also be eligible for Meaningful Use. Given the above factors, it is a good option to the have a selection / implementation expert by your side to help you decide on the right EHR for your practice and then help you implement, train your staff and provide on-going support. Below we outline how we at Technical Doctor Inc. provide EHR Consulting to help our clients select the right EHR, implement it with the right hardware and provide post implementation support / training. EHR Selection: 1.      ...

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RISK ASSESSMENT BASICS AND DO EXPERTS HELP?

What is a HIPAA Risk Assessment? Title II of HIPAA, known as the “Administrative Simplification provisions”, requires practices to follow a set of national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers. A HIPAA Risk Assessment is a process that helps ensure that the practice is following the set of national standards. These standards cover everything from the IT side to the physical layout of the practice and to the administrative side of the practice. Why do a HIPAA Risk Assessment? As stated within the requirements for Meaningful Use, a practice must “conduct or review a security risk analysis and implement security updates as necessary and correct identified security deficiencies as part of its...

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EVERYDAY TIPS FOR PASSING A RISK ASSESSMENT

For a start follow the guidelines and rules set by HIPAA. Keep all paper Medical Records under lock and key and make sure non-authorized personnel have no access to it. Destroy any paper records which are passed their required storage date or digitized and no longer needed. Install an antivirus and firewall software on all your PCs and Laptops and also on your internal network. If possible keep only limited internet access on your internal network. Computers should not be facing the waiting room or any direction where non-authorized people can view it, use password locks when away. Always log out of the EHR system when leaving the computer. Do not use social security numbers as a unique patient identifier....

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The Power of Cloud Back-up

Cloud back-up, also known as on the internet back-up or online back-up is a strategy for support up information that includes delivering a copy of the information over a exclusive or public system to an off-site hosting server. The hosting server is usually organized by a third-party company, who expenses the back-up customer a fee based on capacity, information or number of customers. In the business, the off-site hosting server might be exclusive, but the chargeback method would be similar. Online back-up systems are typically built around a customer software program that operates on a schedule determined by the level of assistance the consumer has purchased. If the consumer has shortened for daily backups, for instance, then the program gathers, squeezes, encrypts and exchanges information...

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Why it is important to have a website now verses later

When we are searching online, we will discover limitless amounts of details, about everything, and all at our convenience. The internet is the biggest source of information in the world because anyone can get the required details on there. And for this all we need is a website and a web hosting company. Many individuals think that getting their web page on the internet is an expensive project, luckily though, this need not actually be true; if we look for the right web variety, the advantages of having a website will definitely over-shadow the costs. There are many different methods to advantage from having a website, whether it is for individual gain, or company success. Those who have their own individual sites generally using them to further an interest or a hobby; having a website is...

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How fast is technology changing in healthcare?

Healthcare technology has slowly and surely changed the way we used to function and perform. Progressively we became acquainted to the specialized amazing factors as they were incorporated into our lifestyles. 21st century has seen both the unmatched growth of technical innovation, especially the IT and our dependency on the same. In the IT age, technical innovation is creating our lifestyles easier by managing the reasons for us, up to the level that its unavailability or an interruption in the solutions that it provides could negatively impact almost everything from the healthcare companies to our day to day lifestyles. New technological innovation is vital to every market, but the healthcare market grows on it. Patients need quicker, more precise access to therapy, and doctors need...

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