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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