What are Your EHR Plans for the Next 12 Months?

The next twelve months present serious EHR scheduling challenges to medical practices.  You need to manage and consider the critical path needed to maintain your EHR strategy and tactics.  The key issues follow:

Should you be using Email for Patient Service?

The HIPAA Security Rules allow you to communicate with emails that include Protected Health Information as long as the patient acknowledges and accepts the risks associated with email.  The key question is should you?

How Reliable are your EHR Patient Notes?

A disturbing number of EHR issues and medical professional liability claims are based on serious problems with exam notes and other clinical documentation recorded in an EHR.  Regardless of the legitimacy of care and treatment, the inappropriate use of EHRs and/or EHR design vulnerabilities are exposing physicians to questions on the quality of care and physician due diligence.  Some key areas to consider follow:

Does Your EHR Present What Your Recorded?

With paper exam notes, the doctor and staff record information and the note reflects what they recorded.  Unfortunately, EHR based notes may not be as direct.

Why You Need a Clinical End of Day Procedure?

At the end of the working day, every healthcare organization performs a reconciliation of fee tickets and receipts to assure that all charges and payments were properly posted and applied.  This effort assures the integrity and accuracy of the financial records.  A similar process is needed to maintain and assure the integrity of your EHR based patient information.