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Would You Use A Doctor That Doesn’t Have An Online Presence?

I would  think twice about using a physician without some sort of an online presence, depending on the case.  For example, if I was choosing a new PCP or if I was going to have an elective procedure, I would use the data I gathered online to help in the decision making process.   What would you do and why?…

Why Your Custom NextGen Templates Suck! – Part I

Welcome to our new series dedicated to helping NextGen users get the most from their templates and documents. We will be posting quick tips on a regular basis so please keep coming back weekly or like our Facebook page.

Take my advice… Stay within the NextGen KBM.  Keep the customizations small, repeatable, and within the KBM standard as set forth by NextGen Healthcare.  Here’s the first, most simple reason why…

You are paying for NextGen Development with your software maintenance …

Improving NextGen EHR Template Readability Part II

Welcome to our new series dedicated to helping NextGen users get the most from their templates and documents. We will be posting quick tips on a regular basis so please keep coming back weekly or like our Facebook page.

Have you ever had a document summary macro that you wished would not wrap at odd places (original NextGen high edit documents, not Tx Text)?  You can force information to be printed on different lines when you create the document text field …

Improving NextGen EHR Template Readability Part I

Welcome to our new series dedicated to helping NextGen users get the most from their templates and documents. We will be posting quick tips on a regular basis so please keep coming back weekly or like our Facebook page.

Have you ever had a template with a note field and you don’t want all of the information to just run together in one continuous stream of words?  Did you know that you can force a new line in the note …

Meaningful Use Numbers from 2011 and Looking Towards 2012

HITECH Answers recently posted a great post that gives a run down of the EHR Incentive program’s progress in 2011. Here’s their list with my own analysis and commentary of each point.

123,921 Eligible Professionals have registered for EHR Incentives, 15,255 have successfully attested to meaningful use in the Medicare program.
This seems like such a HUGE difference in numbers. That’s just over 12% of Eligible Professionals that registered attested to meaningful use. Does this mean that we’re going to …