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Healthcare Meaningful Use Criteria In Final Review - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has sent its final meaningful use rules to the Office of Management and Budget for review, the last step before publishing the regulations.
By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
InformationWeek
July 7, 2010 01:30 PM
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act's long-awaited meaningful use criteria are in the home stretch.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has sent its final meaningful use rules to the Office of Management and Budget for review, the last step before publishing the regulations in the Federal Register for them to become effective.
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World's coolest bluetooth headset, live from the Consumer Electronics Show.The HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' final rules for its "Health Information Technology: Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health Record Technology," was sent to OMB for review on July 2, according to the OMB's Reginfo.gov site.
The Reginfo.gov site provides the public with information related to OMB regulatory reviews "consistent with the disclosure requirements of Executive Order 12866, President Obama’s January 21, 2009, Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, and the OMB Open Government Directive," according to OMB.
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The review process can take up to 90 days, said OMB. However, with President Obama's health IT czar Dr. David Blumenthal's repeatedly stated goal of publishing the rule by "late spring or early summer," the review could be completed sooner.
Also, under the $20 billion-plus HITECH Act signed into law by Obama in Feb. 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, healthcare providers are to become eligible for meaningful use financial rewards beginning in 2011.
However, without the final set of meaningful use criteria formalized yet, many healthcare providers and vendors of health IT products, such as e-heath record systems, have worried that they won't have sufficient time to meet the first wave of meaningful use requirements.
Until the final meaningful use rules clear the OMB review and are published, healthcare providers and others will continue to speculate on what changes were made by HHS in response to the more than 2,000 public comments it received to its interim meaningful use rules published in the Federal Register on Jan. 13, 2010.
According to OMB, this current review "is the last step of the rulemaking process." However, in the meantime, healthcare providers shouldn't expect a peek of the final rules.
"Draft documents under review are considered deliberative and are not available for public release during review," according to OMB.
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A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
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Simple ordering and delivery
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In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
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Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
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Training
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Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, eprescribe, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
CMS: Final Meaningful Use, Certification Rules Sent by OMB - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
July 8, 2010 — 12:45pm ET | By Neil Versel
How do we know the rules for meaningful use will be out any day now? CMS has sent its regulatory language to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review, the final stage in the rulemaking process.
Health Data Management reports that OMB has received the regulations for meaningful use and the related final EHR certification criteria, the latter developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Once OMB signs off, both rules will be released for viewing at the Federal Register Public Inspection Desk while they await official publication. HHS officials publicly released proposed criteria for meaningful use and an interim final rule on certification Dec. 30, but they were not published until Jan. 13.
With the rules at OMB, CMS can't give an exact date for release, but the Medicare and Medicaid agency stands by its forecast of early summer, according to Health Data Management. CMS had slipped from its earlier targets of late spring, then the end of June. FierceEMR reported last week that the final rules will be out by July 14, which is next Wednesday.
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Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, eprescribe, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
HIPAA Medical Coding and Billing - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
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HIPAA medical coding and billing ensure absolute confidentiality for all patient and practice information. By utilizing HIPAA medical coding and billing services from reputed outsourcing companies, medical facilities can submit accurate medical bills and claims on time, thereby significantly maximizing their revenue.
HIPAA Medical Coding and Billing for Data Security
HIPPA (Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant medical coding and billing companies ensure that all the information that they are entrusted with is extremely secure.
Some of the measures they take include:
• Electronic processing and transfer of data via the 256 bit AES encryption method, resulting in greater privacy for all information.
• All employees have to adhere to security codes in the workplace.
• All computers are password protected
• Security measures are in place to ensure the integrity of protected information according to HIPAA guidelines.
• The entire workforce of the company is trained in matters of privacy, security, and confidentiality so that services rendered meet HIPAA regulations.
Numerous hospitals, individual practices, nursing clinics, acute care centers, rehabilitation clinics, insurance companies and others in the US benefit from consistent HIPAA medical coding and billing services offered by outsourcing companies. Outsourcing firms are equipped with skilled billing, coding specialists, accountants, auditors and others who are well aware of the latest medical billing norms and coding procedures. Using the latest technology, they process bills and claims in an accurate and timely manner. The major medical billing and coding tasks performed include:
• Patient demographic entry
• Insurance authorization and verification
• Charge entry
• Billing and enrollment
• Cash posting and reconciliation
• CPT, ICD-9 CM, HCPCS coding
• Insurance collection
Organized Services Enhance Cash-flow
Well-organized HIPAA medical coding and billing services significantly reduce the managerial responsibilities of the healthcare specialists and enable them to concentrate on their core competencies. Therefore HIPAA compliant medical coding and billing services result in enhanced cash flow.
To avail of HIPAA compliant medical coding and billing services at cost-effective charges, medical practices should outsource their medical coding and billing jobs to a well-established service provider.
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Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, eprescribe, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
"We're sorry we misplaced your file" - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Submitted by Bert on Thu, 2010-07-08 06:00
Bill Kenealy of insurancenetworking.com reports that Aetna misplaced paper files on approximately 4900 people when moving offices. The files were left in a cabinet that was being disposed of. The company hired to move and dispose of old furniture later sold the cabinet. The purchaser saw what was in it and called Aetna.
Aetna is offering free credit monitoring to the people who may be affected by the breach. That's a nice gesture, since it seems unlikely that anyone tampered with the files. If someone had, the files wouldn't have been in the cabinet for the honest citizen to find. But maybe it will help when they're explaining to the Department of Health and Human Services why they shouldn't be facing major penalties for for massive HIPAA violations.
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Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, eprescribe, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Central Penn Management Group Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record for Physicians Alliance - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Allscripts READY Package to Accelerate Deployment and Meaningful Use of EHR
Download image CHICAGO and EAST PETERSBURG, Pa., July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX) announced today that Central Penn Management Group (CPMG), a management services organization (MSO) in Central Pennsylvania, has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record for Physicians Alliance Ltd. (PAL), a 120-provider, independent multispecialty group that CPMG manages.
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CPMG will take advantage of the Allscripts READY package to accelerate implementation of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and integration with their existing Allscripts Vision™ practice management system. The group also will implement Allscripts Analytics to generate quality reports needed to help the physician group earn pay-for-performance rewards from insurers and to demonstrate "meaningful use" of the EHR, a requirement for physicians to qualify for EHR incentive payments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
"We selected Allscripts because the PAL physicians were very impressed with its usability and functionality," said Lee Meyers, President and Chief Executive Officer of CPMG. "In addition, our central billing office is already using the Allscripts practice management system, which connects directly to the Allscripts EHR, so we won't have to buy a new billing system."
Meyers added that the first priority of the practice is to ensure they qualify for ARRA dollars, so the idea of replacing the practice management system didn't make sense, at least before they had their Electronic Health Record up and operating to meet meaningful use standards. In addition, with pay-for-performance becoming more critical, both nationally and locally, the ability to capture quality data, use it to deliver better care, and send it to pay-for-quality programs will enable the group to obtain performance payments.
Allscripts READY is a standardized implementation "tool kit" – a series of complete solution packages that provide best-in-class recommendations for products, certified workflows and implementation, along with automated processes for tracking and managing the implementation. Using READY, CPMG expects to deploy the Allscripts EHR to all of the PAL providers within 12 months. That will fall within the window of time needed for the group to qualify for maximum federal incentives.
"This streamlined approach will help us get up and running much faster than would be possible if we had to customize the EHR ourselves out of the box," commented Meyers. "We'll use best practices from groups who have already implemented the product, while still being able to customize it later to individual provider preferences."
CPMG, which provides management services to a total of 350 providers, is in discussions with non-PAL practices about the possibility of providing access to the Allscripts EHR. CPMG will host the Allscripts EHR on its own servers, making it simple and cost-effective to add more practices, in addition to supporting the practices on an on-going basis.
"Management service organizations like CPMG will be instrumental in helping many practices rapidly and cost-effectively deploy electronic health records in time to demonstrate meaningful use in 2011," said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. "Our READY accelerated deployment package is also helping many physicians reduce the length of time and the cost of deploying their EHRs. The sooner they 'go live,' the sooner they will be able to demonstrate meaningful use and, more importantly, begin to enhance the quality of care that their patients receive."
About Central Penn Management Group
Central Penn Management Group (CPMG) is a management services organization (MSO) based in East Petersburg, Pa. In business since 1994, the MSO has been providing services for more than a decade and now supports about 350 providers, most in Central Pennsylvania, providing them with central billing, information technology, and other services. Physicians Alliance Ltd. (PAL), a multispecialty group with about 120 providers, is CPMG's largest client. The MSO also provides services to other private practices and a group of physicians employed by Health Management Associates, which owns three for-profit hospitals in the area.
About Allscripts
Allscripts uses innovation technology to bring health to healthcare. More than 160,000 physicians, 800 hospitals and more than 10,000 post-acute and homecare organizations utilize Allscripts to improve the health of their patients and their bottom line. The company's award-winning solutions include electronic health records, electronic prescribing, revenue cycle management, practice management, document management, care management, emergency department information systems and homecare automation. Allscripts is the brand name of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com.
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Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, eprescribe, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Some doctors join Facebook, Twitter; others wary - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY
Go into any obstetrician/gynecologist's office and you're likely to see a large bulletin board covered with snapshots of babies.
But the docs at one Irving, Texas, OB-GYN practice have taken that ubiquitous display of cute kids into the 21st century. Their patients can post photos on the MacArthur OB/GYNFacebook page, where the doctors post news about their practice and the medical world at large. It has more than 600 fans.
Jeff Livingston, who spearheaded the practice's venture into social media, also manages the @ macobgynTwitter account, which has about 1,600 followers. He sees Facebook as an educational and, perhaps just as important, marketing tool. "People are looking for information online," Livingston says. "I wanted them to look at our page."
But few doctors have embraced social media as enthusiastically as he has. Concerns about time and patient privacy have deterred many.
"No matter how you parse it, doctors don't avoid the Internet and social media because they're simply Luddites," Westby Fisher, an Evanston, Ill., cardiac electrophysiologist, wrote last month on his blog, Dr. Wes. "They avoid the Internet because they enjoy the benefits of anonymity, privacy, efficiency and legal protection that come with dropping off the grid."
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Closely keeping tabs on posts
Those really haven't been issues for Livingston. In the two years since he launched the practice's Facebook page, he has had to take down content others had posted only three times.
"What I'm watching for is that no private personal health information gets relayed via social media," says Livingston, who keeps close tabs on the page with his iPhone and iPad.
Recently, Livingston wondered whether one new patient's posted question — could her fetus acquire an infection if she swam in a public pool? — was too personal.
But then he remembered that many women ask that same question every summer, so he decided that posting an answer — "It is perfectly OK" — on Facebook would serve all his pregnant patients, not just the one who posted the query.
And, Livingston says, "the time is really not an issue. Just make it a part of your normal day." When he comes across an interesting medical story, he posts it on Facebook and tweets it on Twitter. Still, he acknowledges, "just like breakfast, lunch and dinner can all get skipped during a busy workday," so can posts and tweets.
As Nashua, N.H., internist Kevin Pho wrote in a USA TODAY op-ed piece in January, "there is little guidance on how physicians can incorporate (social media) into their medical practice."
Acknowledging that problem, the American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs last month passed a resolution to "study the issue of physicians' use of social networking, as exemplified on sites such as Facebook and Twitter" and report to the AMA's House of Delegates at its meeting in November.
Another roadblock, Pho said, is that doctors usually get paid only for talking to patients in the examining room, giving physicians little financial incentive to reach out to them over the Web.
But, continued Pho, whose Twitter and Linked-In profiles refer to him as social media's leading physician voice, "doctors who are not active online risk being marginalized."
Pho says his KevinMD blog gets 250,000 page views a month, and he has more than 22,000 followers of @ kevinmd on Twitter. "You need to have a diverse array of ways to reach patients," he said in an interview. "Patients are on Facebook. Patients are on Twitter. Patients are on blogs."
Livingston's patient Kristi Francisco says his presence on Facebook and Twitter sealed her decision to pick him as her doctor when she moved from Tampa to Grapevine, Texas, less than a month before her daughter, now 15 months old, was born. "I like the fact that he is so plugged in to the way everybody communicates," says Francisco, a brand manager for Saber Holdings.
Pho says that although "I don't use my blog to market my practice, it does have a positive impact in terms of recruiting new patients. They know that I'm Web-savvy."
Not everyone is all a-Twitter
In a comment on Pho's blog, Michael Laccheo, a rheumatology fellow at the University of Iowa, challenged the notion that doctors who aren't tweeting and friending and blogging away are in danger of becoming irrelevant.
Some "amazing" doctors don't even know how to type, Laccheo said in an interview. While he calls what doctors do with social media more pontification than communication, "I think having an online presence is a good idea" for tasks such as scheduling appointments.
Laccheo, who does blog, albeit infrequently, gives his cellphone number and e-mail address to his patients and posts them on his website. "They know they can get hold of me when they need me."
When you talk to Livingston about his involvement in social media, he can sound more like a marketing expert than a doctor. SEO, short for search engine optimization, rolls off his tongue as easily as IUD, or intrauterine device, a birth control method.
And yet, he says, his role model is more Marcus Welby than Sanjay Gupta.
"If you go back two generations, doctors came to your house. They lived in your community. They probably went to the same church."
With social media, he says, "what we're really doing is going back and creating a more personal experience with technology."
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How Can Dragon Naturally Speaking Help Your Internet Marketing Business? - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
In today’s video blog cast we are going to be talking about Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a speech recognition software that will allow you to easily and effortlessly dictate blog posts, article posts and much much more.
Actually, I use it on a daily basis. I would say that 90% of my typing is done using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. And as you can see it is fairly accurate. Most of the time it will be around 99 to 100% accurate. Sometimes however, it will start to act up.
I’m actually using this right now while the screen capture software is recording as well. So, I am interested to see what the accuracy will actually be like. Because as you know, well if you use screen capture software, using the software takes up a lot of your RAM.
Anyway, I am actually recording this text while you’re watching on the video. So, what you see here is what you will actually see me dictate in the video. It is really cool stuff and makes writing so much easier for the web.
I can literally crank out articles and blog posts in no time flat. This video has been going for three minutes and 57 seconds right now and I have almost half as a blog post written out.
I really don’t know what I would do without Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
So, if you are running any type of Internet marketing business where you are doing a lot of typing this is an absolute must. Especially for you guys out there who type like me… hunt and Peck.
See you in the next video blog post!
Shannon Herod
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A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
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How Paperless Offices Work - July 7, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Introduction to How Paperless Offices Work
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If you've ever spent too long hunting through stacks of paper for an invoice or searching through paper files, you may have wished for a paperless office. You wouldn't be alone.
As soon as computers began appearing on office desks more than 20 years ago, so did the idea of paperless, electronic communication. But despite all the time that's passed, most businesses are far from operating without paper.
The arguments for tossing the piles of paper are strong. By eliminating paper in file cabinets, for example, a company can create more room and reduce off-site storage costs. By exchanging information electronically with vendors and customers, a business can make information quickly accessible -- and conversely more private and secure through the use of encryption, passwords and other security measures. For some businesses -- like those in the healthcare industry, which are governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act (HIPAA) -- paperless records may be a regulatory requirement.
But the process of going paperless can be daunting. There are the costs of new equipment and software to consider, as well as that of converting paper records into electronic files. And there are decisions about how to make the move and when, how much existing paper to convert, how to handle paper that continues to flow in from vendors and customers, how to get employees onboard with the idea and trained in new systems, and how to simply keep doing business as usual during the conversion.
Add to that the fact that, no matter what, a company probably can't be completely paperless. Some papers -- like signed, sealed deeds and legally binding contracts, or paper records for audits and IRS tax filings -- need to exist in their original form for legal or financial reasons or, particularly in the financial services industry, to show regulatory compliance.
Still, many companies will agree that becoming paperless, or at least paper-less, is well worth the effort. In this article, we'll take a closer look at how you can move your company closer to paperless -- from possible steps in the transition process to the available technology. We'll also look specifically at document management and consider how you can make your home office paperless, too.
On the next page, let's look first at the benefits some companies have realized by going as paperless as they can.
Benefits of a Paperless Office
There are many benefits with a paperless office, beyond simply having less paper to deal with. While you're unlikely to have a completely paper-free office, electronic communication and other systems can eliminate much of it. Let's take a closer look at how this has benefited some businesses:
1.Reduced costs and quicker access to information. MajesticInvites.com is an eight-person company that designs online invitations. Being paperless saves the company about $100,000 per year on printing, mailing, paper and storage space, reports Alina Uzilov, the company's president. And because employees can access electronic documents more quickly than paper, they can almost instantly respond to customer questions or make their changes [source: Small Business Computing].
2.More space. When he got ready to switch locations after making his office paperless, real estate broker Ed Branson of Branson's California Property noticed that he didn't even have half as many file cabinets as before going paperless [source: Microsoft.com].
3.Document security and easy information sharing. Obstetrician Rose Kung, M.D., found storing and retrieving paper patient charts was time consuming for her practice at Women's College Hospital in Toronto. Switching to an electronic document management system reduced chart filing and finding time -- and improved security of patient information. Password protection at different levels limits the access that office staff have to the information. Kung can also send electronic copies of patient records to physicians anywhere in the world [source: A&L Computer Software Limited].
4.Ability to handle company growth. Transervice Logistics in Lake Success, N.Y., helps companies manage their delivery systems. The human resources staff found they had more than 30,000 pieces of paper to track and store in their 1,000 employee records. With that information now stored electronically, the department was able to handle the addition of 500 employees (potentially 15,000 more pieces of paper) without needing additional space.
5.Access anywhere and electronic prescriptions. South Shore Skin Care Center, near Boston, has switched to an electronic medical records (EMR) system from paper patient charts. With the EMR, doctors can access patient information from anywhere at any time. They can also send electronic prescriptions directly to pharmacies [source: dBusiness News].
6.Less paper in. A company plans to accept paper faxes from customers. However, the company uses electronic faxing to intercept those faxes, turn them into electronic documents and keep them from coming into the company as paper.
7.Less temporary paper. At dentist Kambiz Moin's office in Manchester, N.H., not only are patient charts electronic, but also patient arrivals. A patient who arrives for an appointment types his or her name in a waiting room computer and puts a finger on a biometric reader. Their arrival is then posted on the office computers, color coded to show an early, on-time or late arrival [source: Orthodontic Products Online].
8. Less paper out. Tax professional Joseph Anthony in Portland, Ore., files clients tax returns electronically, eliminating paper returns, and then turns the return into a PDF document that he gives the client on a rewriteable CD. The next year, the client brings back the CD to have another year's return added [source: Microsoft.com].
Taken one step at a time, moving toward a more paperless office doesn't have to be difficult.
Transitioning to a Paperless Office
If you're considering the transition to a paperless office -- or at least a more paperless office, you may be wondering where to start and what you'll need. Many companies offer document management systems, hardware, software and consulting services to help improve electronic communication on the road to having no paper. We'll look at some of those later in this article. For now, let's explore the process.
Faxes can be sent electronically to individual computers instead of requiring hard copies.
Here are some decisions for you to consider before you start the transition to a more paperless office:
•How much of your paper do you want to convert? How far back do you want to go in converting paper files?
•How will you handle the paper that still comes in from vendors, partners or customers? Or, that you can't convert, like legal or tax-related documents?
•How expensive is new equipment or software, or both, and how does that fit your budget?
•What's your proposed process for going paperless and your time frame?
•How will you inform staff and get them to buy into the process so they accept the changes you want and don't slide back into heavy paper use?
•How much help do you need from outside? (This could be a consultant to manage the conversion process, a vendor for new equipment and software, a firm to do actual data conversion, a hosting service to move electronic files off site, security experts, or employee trainers.)
•How will you handle paper reduction on an ongoing basis? For instance, whose job will it be to scan and electronically file incoming paper?
Based on recommendations from experts and companies who have gone through the process, here are some basic steps for the transition process.
1.Commit to going to a paperless office, and convince staff to go along with it by explaining the advantages for each of them individually, and as a group, and involving them in the process.
2.Check your existing computer hardware to make sure it's robust enough to handle added applications and file storage. Make sure you have a reliable backup system for all the files you will be adding.
3.Analyze what you need and plan to accomplish. Think about what you're likely to need in the future with a growing business, as well as now. Think about which documents need to be accessed often or quickly, which need extra security, and which could be weeded out after a certain time.
4.Develop a transition plan and a timetable.
5.Start small with just a single department or area of our business so you can address any problems before broadening your scope.
6.Research the available tools to help you (document management systems, electronic faxing, scanners, data backup systems, security systems, document conversion companies, process consultants).
7.Select and arrange to buy the tools you plan to use. For software, consider fit with your needs, ease of use and implementation, cost, and integration with your existing systems. And don't neglect backup needs to keep electronic data from being lost.
8.Do a small test project; make any needed changes; and then move to the transition in your first department.
9.Develop a plan for ongoing company-wide use. Include a document storage plan for employees with specific guidelines.
10.Gradually take your paperless transition through the company.
Next, let's look at a key part of any paperless office -- the document management system.
Managing Digital Documents
Digital documents, like paper, need to be stored so they can be retrieved and used as needed. For a paperless office -- or more likely, a near paperless one -- you'll need a way to turn paper documents into digital, or electronic documents.
That type of communication transformation is handled by a document imaging system. Since not having paper is unlikely, you'll probably find an ongoing need to turn paper into electronic files. A document management system usually goes beyond that transformation to deal with all documents -- computer generated, as well as those that are faxed, scanned or e-mailed.
To create a paperless office, documents can be scanned into digital format using a scanner.
The basic document imaging system consists of a scanner and software that allows paper documents to be scanned, converted to electronic images and saved in PDF, TIFF or other formats for storage on CDs, DVDs, a computer hard disk or a network server.
Most document imaging systems include optical character recognition (OCR). This allows the images to be recognized as text when saved as searchable PDFs or copied into programs like Microsoft Word or Excel. With OCR, you also can search for specific words or phrases within a scanned document.
Document management systems provide the electronic file cabinets and filing system tools. They combine data storage space with software that goes beyond document imaging to include functions such as audit trail and reporting tools, document expiration controls to delete documents at specified dates and Web-based document viewing.
More advanced document management systems offer extras such as:
•User authentication for increased security
•Automatic e-mail notification
•Digital signatures
•Data encryption for secure sending
•Custom keys that provide prompts for correct indexing
•Targeted solutions for industries such as health care, financial or manufacturing
•Multimedia filing, bringing together various types of files such as visual images, video, text and spreadsheets
If you have large quantities of paper documents to turn into electronic files or need help getting the job done quickly, you may want to outsource document imaging to a company like microMEDIA. One of the company's current on-site conversion projects includes OCR and fully searchable PDF files with more than 25 million images.
And if you don't have a robust enough server or want to store electronic files off site, many document imaging companies offer a hosted server solution. Web-based document hosting allows you to store or back up your files on their server and then access them securely anywhere, any time. The advantage is that valuable files are off site in case your company's server goes down or cannot be used on site, like during a hurricane.
Beyond your company's paperless needs, employees may have a home office. On the next page, we'll look at how to bring a paperless look to your home office.
Going Paperless at Home
In a home office, it's possible to back up files to a computer rather than having stacks of paper. Whether you're a solo entrepreneur or a telecommuter working full or part time from home, there's no reason your home office can't be as paperless as possible. In fact, given limited space and available time, the move to electronic communication and reduced paper may be even more important at home than in a conventional office. Most of the same concepts apply, only on smaller scale.
Start your at-home push to paperless by taming your inner pack rat. No, you probably don't need marketing materials from five years ago or every scrap of paper related to completed projects. Reduce junk mail by calling 1-888-OPT-OUT (1-888-567-8688) to stop receiving credit card offers. Once you've cleared out the unnecessary, you can work to keep those newly cleared spaces clear permanently.
Next, switch to electronic with everything you can. Electronic banking eliminates statements and checks. Online credit card and financial statements knocks out more paper. Check to see what other accounts, like insurance, you can make online. The same goes for project proposals, resumés and invoices. When paper comes to the door, handle it once, and recycle or shred as much as you can immediately.
Make PDF documents of your receipts and save them online instead of printing out paper copies. Create an online filing system that's easy to understand. And develop a regular back-up system that you do at least weekly to make sure you don't lose important documents. A flash drive or CD can work, unless you have enough data to need an external hard drive for back-up.
Consider getting an inexpensive scanner, if you don't already have one, to scan and save receipts, contracts and other documents. If you need to return a signed contract and your employer or client is willing, you can scan the contract, sign it and fax it back. If not, you can at least scan and save the signed contract for your records.
Take that concept a step further, and consider signing up for electronic fax services. Several companies offer this service and accompanying software for as little as $40 per month. With electronic faxing, or Internet faxing, as it's sometimes called, you can send and receive faxes without a paper-using fax machine. Any document you create on your computer can be sent to a fax machine via e-mail or the Web.
Add a firewall and evaluate your software to make sure you have adequate security for your electronic documents and can protect them from cyber-thieves. If you think you need more, buy something more robust.
Work on one area at a time to gradually build to a nearly paperless office. Plan an annual end-of-year clean-out. Go through files, and move everything that simply needs to be stored onto CDs.
And accept the fact that some paper won't go away. Deeds, birth certificates, notarized documents and some tax-related items just need to be stored securely. Fortunately, by the time you've made the other changes, you probably won't need a large box to store the paper you've left!
Next, let's consider paperless office solutions beyond document management systems that can make a paperless office work better.
Paperless Office Solutions
Electronic paper records allow users to access information from any device, including PDAs.While document management is an important part of the paperless office, other technology can help make the switch to electronic communication easier. If your goal is to eliminate paper, take a look at these options.
Data Back-Up -- For a paperless solution to work, a company needs the security of knowing digital documents are duplicated. This can be done through on-site back-up to a disk, hard drive or server. However, some less-used data can simply be archived, or stored on or off site for record keeping or in case it's needed at some point [source: Digital Assets].
Companies providing document hosting services frequently offer data archiving services. They may also offer data mirroring, in which an exact copy, or mirrored repository, of your database is kept off site so that your company can connect to it and use it at any time.
Electronic Faxing -- With electronic faxing, a company no longer needs paper-using fax machines. Incoming faxes are converted to digital images and sent to individual e-mail boxes. Similarly, documents created on the desktop can be sent to a fax machine via e-mail or the Web. Faxing also is more secure because paper copies can't be lost or left on a fax machine for everyone to see.
Security Solutions -- While electronic documents provide a level of security beyond paper on their own, you may want to go beyond the security offered as part of a document management solution. In choosing a security solution, consider the three main points of security: Does it provide confidentiality by protecting against unauthorized entry? Does it have integrity in that data within the device can't be altered? And does it limit availability by requiring authorization before the database can be used?
As technology advances, other solutions to the paper problem will undoubtedly emerge. One in development is Xerox Corp.'s electronic paper, which allows notations on thin digital displays with a stylus. The notations can either be erased or saved digitally. Another, Anoto Group's intelligent paper, also allows notations with a stylus, but using a magnetic ink. The notations appear on the paper and simultaneously on a computer screen.
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For more information please call (407) 494-4EHR (4347) or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com and let us "Uncomplexify your Information
Technology"
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, eprescribe, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Delivering Allscripts Enterprise - July 7, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Top performance, security, and flexibility
to get the most from your HIT investment
with Citrix virtualization and networking
technologies
“Build it and they will come” may be true for Hollywood baseball fields, but
achieving organization-wide acceptance and utilization of health information
technology (HIT), such as an electronic health record (EHR) or practice
management (PM) solution, can prove a bit tougher. Physicians, other
clinicians, and staff may resist using an HIT solution unless it offers them
simplicity, fast performance, and flexible access from anywhere and on any
device. Unless everyone makes the move to the new system, the anticipated
ROI may be elusive.
Meanwhile, the IT team is looking for ways to reach its own goals for an
EHR or PM implementation: easy management, optimal data security, cost
savings, and minimal calls to the help desk. Traditional delivery models,
including client-server and web application publishing, carry significant
drawbacks ranging from slow performance and constrained availability to
time-consuming administration.
Citrix technologies are the best way to deliver
Allscripts Enterprise EHR and PM
Allscripts recommends using Citrix virtualization and networking solutions
to optimize the delivery, management, and user experience of its client-server
Enterprise PM solution and its web-based Enterprise EHR solution. Citrix®
XenDesktop®, which integrates desktop, server, and application virtualization,
together with Citrix® NetScaler® VPX for web application optimization help
customers get the maximum returns from their Allscripts solutions.
Virtualization comprises a set of rapidly emerging technologies that are
simpler and more adaptable than traditional distributed desktops, client-server
applications, or dedicated servers. At a high level, virtualization technology
decouples physical servers or devices from their operating system and software.
The user interface is delivered over the network as an on-demand service, while
the software components are centrally managed in the datacenter. Delivering
the user desktop in this way minimizes the amount of data transmitted over
the network, enhancing performance.
Advantages across the health care organization
Delivering Allscripts applications with these Citrix solutions provides these
strategic and tactical benefits:
For physicians and staff
• Increases satisfaction – Users appreciate high performance and
availability, plus a high-definition experience on any device
• Enables remote access – Delivery over the network to any
device, including a home or branch office computer, improves
efficiency and work-life balance
• Allows free roaming – Clinicians log in only once and their work
follows them on COWs and from device to device
• Saves time – Fast application performance helps streamline busy
schedules and carve out more time for patients
For IT administrators
• Simplifies management – Centralized implementation, updates,
delivery, and monitoring reduce the burden on IT
• Reduces TCO – Supports datacenter consolidation and delivery
to legacy devices
• Strengthens security – Secure remote access and single sign-on to
password-protected applications safeguard patient data
For the leadership team
• Accelerates ROI – Greater user satisfaction drives full HIT adoption
• Lowers costs – Savings are achieved from the desktop to
the datacenter
• Supports growth – Flexible, high-performance information
delivery enables geographic expansion
XenDesktop
XenDesktop combines desktop, application, and server virtualization and
other functionality, enabling customers to host, manage, and securely deliver
the Allscripts PM solution with the best user experience. The major components
of XenDesktop are:
• Desktop virtualization – XenDesktop delivers a complete Windows®
desktop to users on any device—PC, Mac, tablet, smartphone,
iPad®, etc.—with a high-definition experience. With a virtual desktop,
clinicians get seamless access to Allscripts applications plus other
resources in a single, personalized interface.
• Application virtualization – Citrix® XenApp™, a globally proven
technology, centralizes applications in the datacenter and delivers
them on demand to any device.
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• Server virtualization – This popular technology for datacenter
consolidation and agility allows more than one virtual machine
to run on the same physical server, optimizing utilization and
reducing the number of physical servers. The highest Allscripts
performance can be achieved by running XenDesktop on Citrix®
XenServer® or Microsoft® Hyper-V™, but XenDesktop can run on
any leading hypervisor.
• Secure remote access – XenDesktop supports HIPAA compliance
by providing encrypted delivery of desktops and applications,
while enabling IT to set policies that control whether data can
leave the datacenter.
NetScaler
Citrix NetScaler VPX provides web application load balancing, acceleration,
security, and offload features in a virtual appliance that can be deployed on
standard servers in the datacenter. NetScaler accelerates Allscripts Enterprise
EHR up to five times through compression and caching, and ensures high
availability with server load balancing to direct users to the least-loaded web
server. NetScaler also strengthens application security via a web application
firewall and provides user experience monitoring that enables IT to oversee
application performance at the endpoint.
Proven compatibility and performance
Through an ongoing partnership, Allscripts and Citrix ensure the compatibility
of their products. Health care organizations that choose this joint solution
can look forward to faster adoption of electronic health records and practice
management technology by happy users—and that can mean an HIT home run.
www.citrix.com
About Allscripts
Allscripts uses innovation technology to bring health to healthcare. More than 160,000 physicians, 800 hospitals and nearly
8,000 post-acute and homecare organizations utilize Allscripts to improve the health of their patients and their bottom line. The
company’s award-winning solutions include electronic health records, electronic prescribing, revenue cycle management, practice
management, document management, care management, emergency department information systems and homecare automation.
Allscripts is the trade name of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an
on-demand service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization, networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full
portfolio of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual datacenters for IT. More than 230,000 organizations
worldwide rely on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT environments. Citrix partners with over 10,000
companies in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2009 was $1.61 billion.
©2010 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Citrix®, NetScaler®, XenDesktop®, XenApp™, and XenServer® are trademarks of
Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office
and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
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About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
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Software tips: Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 essentials - July 7, 2010
Orlando Florida --
by Amy Jo Browne
Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Essentials is a great speech recognition program that gives users the ability to talk out whatever they want to type quickly. With Dragon 10, you are able to go online with using your voice only. You can do various things such as surf the Internet, and it allows you to become more productive.
Voice recognition software is handy for anyone who uses the Internet on a daily basis, and has trouble typing. Those people, who have trouble hitting the right keys on the keyboard or seeing them at all, are missing the entire world the Internet provides us all with and that is a shame. The Internet can take you on many adventures around the world as an armchair traveler, it can help us in so many aspects of our lives, and for those of those who make our living on the Internet this Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 voice recognition software is indispensable.
Voice recognition software is a necessity for me as a freelance writer. It allows me to be more productive in a shorter amount of time. Typing a 1000 word article, which took on the average of an hour and a half to two hours to type, limited my productivity greatly.
That same thousand-word article will only take maybe half an hour at the most to create using my Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 voice recognition software. This really speeds up my productivity, which is great because not only am I a full-time freelance writer I am also a full-time single mom and primary caregiver to my grandchildren. I simply do not have the time or the ambition to manually type the 5000 words a day, to get the salary that require.
It may not seem like 5000 words is a lot but you need to realize that most people only type about 40words of minute or so. If you divide those 5000 words by 40 words a minute you will see that, it would take you 125 hours to complete all those words. Now with Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 voice recognition software you can easily talk out those 5000 words in a matter of 5 to 6 hours, which makes it just above the average workday for most of us.
My friend Marilyn is now using her copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 to surf the Internet, create emails, and her very creative fictional stories. Marilyn cannot manually type as one normally was because she is recovering from two broken arms at this time from a fall that occurred this past winter.
Without Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 voice recognition software, she would have had to give up her part-time income, and she would be very bored because she cannot do her normal every day job because of these broken arms.
The software allows her to be out here in the normal world doing something she loves, which is creating those fictional stories. However, since she can no longer do her full-time job she could use this speech recognition software to turn her part time income into something more lucrative for her to reduce the financial burdens.
by Doreen Martel
Regardless of how high your typing speed is, it is likely that you speak much faster. Dragon Naturally Speaking 10.0 is a voice recognition software that can greatly enhance your ability to maneuver the internet or write articles, papers or even eBooks faster than ever before. If you are considering using Dragon Naturally Speaking 10.0 here are some tips that will help you master this software:
Get a Good Headset
Consider investing in a good, noise canceling headset if you are going to purchase Dragon Naturally Speaking 10.0. It is essential that you have clear sound to help the software minimize errors. You do not have to purchase the most expensive headset on the market, however, you should make sure it is comfortable and has excellent sound quality. You may want to consider looking into the Plantronics line of headsets as they are well known for their outstanding quality. You can also purchase Plantronics headsets through Amazon which can mean a considerable cost savings.
Dragon Naturally Speaking Versions
There are a number of versions of Dragon Naturally Speaking available depending on your individual needs. These versions include a "standard" version which is appropriate for most users and is also the least expensive. The standard version lacks some of the features of the more advanced versions including the ability to control programs such as Microsoft Office. Dragon Naturally Speaking also offers legal, medical, professional and preferred versions. The preferred version also offers portable dictation using your portable communication device as well as commands for Microsoft Excel which is not offered in the standard version.
Training Your Software
As with any other type of voice recognition software Dragon Naturally Speaking will not recognize your voice until you train it to do so. After installation, make sure your headset is installed properly and begin the sound and voice testing to ensure that your system is picking up sounds properly. Dragon has two tests that it performs to initialize your headset to the software. In addition, all versions allow you to search your hard drive(s) and review the documents that you have created in the past. This scan is dictated by your choices and can help the software learn your writing style. Simply select folders of your work, and allow the software to scan the documents. This will also add words to the Dragon vocabulary helping reduce the number of errors that the software makes.
Dragon Naturally Speaking 10.0 has an accuracy center that allows you to add individual words or to scan new documents that you may have created without using Dragon. If you do not use Dragon for all of your work it is a good idea to run this at least one time a month to further train your software.
Dictating Using Dragon Naturally Speaking
There are a number of options that you can use for dictating with Dragon Naturally Speaking 10.0. It is essential that you review all of the available options and find out which one works best for you. You may elect to dictate directly into a document using Microsoft Word, Notepad, Google Docs, Zoho Docs or even Open Office Word. Dragon works with each of these programs. Another option is to use the "Dragon Pad" which allows you to dictate directly into a small pop-up box and works similar to notepad. When you have completed your dictation you may then copy (or cut) and paste the text into your favorite program. There is also a dictation box which is used if you have an open copy of any word based program that you prefer. It may also be used on many websites (like Helium) for automatically dictating articles and "pasting" them into text boxes.
Words of Warning
It is important to remember that while Dragon Naturally Speaking is very accurate that it is sometimes less than perfect. Pauses in your dictation, interruptions from noise in your home and less than clear sounds may create words that you never intended to have in your document. Not only should you run spell check when you have completed your dictation, you should also run a grammar check. It is also a good idea to read the document completely through to ensure that there are no unexpected words in the document.
Summary
Nuance, the creators of Dragon Naturally Speaking has created a very versatile program that can be used for all of your writing needs. While the software is not 100% perfect, it is extremely accurate and can be very helpful. Whether you spend a few hours a day writing or, you write several hours a day you can double or triple your output using Dragon Naturally Speaking. There is little doubt that you will have to spend some time familiarizing yourself with the quirks of the program, but once you do, you will not only be protecting your hands from repetitive injury (carpel tunnel) but you will find that you are far more productive using Dragon Naturally Speaking 10.0 voice recognition software.
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A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, eprescribe, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
