Introduction to Telehealth
Two weeks ago I sent out a message through a few social networks that we use here at Softworks, Twitter, Facebook, and my LinkedIn profile, that I was working on a primer on the topic of telehealth. I...
Let the madness begin
If you have not already heard, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced that they will be prepared to start cutting checks for meaningful use of EHR’s in May of 2011. Now that...
Attempted Hacker Attacks in Healthcare on the Rise
** This is a repost from the Healthcare IT News website with full credit given to the author. **
These types of attacks deserve special attention from private practices as our experience shows us that...
How Physician-Owners Cripple Their Practices
A couple of weeks ago, we received a phone call from a specialty practice that we have talked to in the past about managing their IT systems. The company never signed with us, opting instead to continue...
Electronic Health Records: First Do No Harm
In medicine, we have all heard the creed “first, do no harm”, from the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. This is an excellent principle for physicians to guide them in their practice of medicine....
New tax rule could help physicians
On of the seeming universal rules of being a physician is that you must be involved in other businesses. Because of the ability of many physicians (though certainly not all of them) to obtain financing...
Your practice and HITECH
Softworks welcomes President Obama’s February 17th, 2009 signing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
(HITECH) Act (part of the Stimulus package known as the American...
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