Is social media putting your practice at risk?
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013Experts today agree that no marketing plan is complete unless it includes some level of social media engagement. Does your practice have a Facebook page? Are you listed on Google+? Do you tweet regularly? Are you posting regular blogs on your website? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then you are marketing through social media. With so many different social media platforms and a number of different individuals in your practice who potentially have access to your social media accounts, you should have a set of policies around this powerful marketing tool. These policies are referred to [...]
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What would you do?
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013Consider arriving at work tomorrow morning to find that a fire, tornado or flood has damaged your medical facility to the point that no one can enter the building. What happens to the patients that are scheduled for that day? How do you communicate with your staff? How do you gain access to important medical information for at-risk patients? How will your staff react? Do you know how you would manage them in a crisis like this? Who is your insurance agent, and how can you reach him? Consider another, perhaps even worse, scenario which actually happened recently: a medical [...]
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Would a fine tomorrow put your practice out of business?
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013With the increasing use of technology in medical practices today, cyber defense is becoming a huge area of emerging liability. Most leading malpractice insurance carriers offer coverage - commonly referred to as MedDefense – to cover expenses that might arise from a claim related to a breach of patient protected health information. However, this coverage is often rolled into a practice’s medical malpractice insurance and has very low limits, usually covering nothing more than the cost of legal defense. Any practice that is using an EMR/EHR needs to re-evaluate and plan to have coverage for cyber liability and medical defense [...]
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Is Your Medical Practice Thriving or Just Merely Surviving ?
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013I was reading an article about the 12 Skills That Will Help You Thrive in 2013 and made an observation that these skills could be related to medical practices and practice managers. Let’s face it, the electronic age is not leaving us, so we have to learn to adapt to this new reality. Medical practices are transitioning to electronic health records in greater numbers. So, if you are going to stay in practice and be up-to-date, you must learn to put technology to work for you. The following is my take on the skills that will help you thrive not only [...]
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5 Common Issues Arising from a Security Risk Analysis
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as of June 2012, they have paid over $1 billion to eligible professionals who have attested to Meaningful Use. That represents payments to over 55,000 physicians in 2011 and 2012. One of the congressional requirements of these bonus payments is post-payment auditing of hospitals and eligible professionals who attested that they met the requirements for those payments. As we’ve already seen, medical practices across the country have been receiving audit letters. In fact, one of our own clients recently received an audit letter after attestation. What’s the secret to protecting [...]
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