KAREN E LEWIS

HighlightsNo matter what type of chiropractic practice you run, macros can help you keep accurate, compliant SOAP notes for your patient visits. The right chiropractic EHR  software provides you with access to macros, helpful template-like shortcuts that cut the time it takes you to enter patient notes in half. Macros boost your efficiency and can help you level up your chiropractic practice.The term macros refers to a word-processing technology that allows healthcare providers to enter patient...

HighlightsThe most effective way to know how your practice performs daily is through end-of-day (EOD) reports. Real-time EODs let you see how your practice measures up in critical areas such as payments, charges, and appointments so you can shift your approach to maximize profitability.ChiroTouch offers advanced analytics capabilities, including real-time dashboards and comprehensive static reports, that simplify end-of-day reporting. In this blog post, we’ll explore how powerful cloud analytics...

HighlightsTransitioning to cloud offers your practice improved data security, flexibility, and efficiency. With cloud-based ChiroTouch, you can manage your practice from anywhere, at any time, streamline operations, and enhance HIPAA compliance, reducing the risk of data loss or breach.Evolving to cloud-based ChiroTouch can help reduce overhead costs and improve your practice’s bottom line.Adopting cloud-based ChiroTouch eliminates the need for IT maintenance expenses or specialized admin resour...

After years of development and feedback from users within the chiropractic community, a new version of ChiroTouch software that’s 100% cloud-based was released in 2021.That means you will no longer be tied to the physical server in your office to perform software-based tasks, including scheduling, charting, and billing. Instead, you will achieve full mobility and flexibility; you can access your EHR and practice management software from anywhere and on any device with an internet browser.We desi...

Is licensing cloud-based software less expensive than server-based? If you are wondering about the cost-effectiveness of licensing server-based software versus cloud solutions, you’re not alone.Cloud-native or cloud-based software solutions are fast becoming the norm. As a result, there’s been an influx of companies trying to assess what’s more economical — using a locally-run server or subscribing to a cloud solution.Moving to a cloud-based software approach can lower IT costs by up to 30 perce...

HighlightsProviding quality patient care is an essential aspect of your chiropractic practice. However, managing multiple scheduling, insurance, and billing workflows while delivering a high quality experience to your patients is a lot to juggle. Your practice could be at risk of losing profit and growth opportunities if you struggle to keep all those balls in the air.Evolving to cloud-based ChiroTouch can help improve your practice’s productivity and performance in several areas. Here are five...

HighlightsRunning an efficient, streamlined workplace as a chiropractor can lead to a happier environment for staff and patients. An outdated EHR system that requires excessive data entry and has navigation issues can negatively affect your mental health. Switching to an innovative, cloud-based practice management system boosts morale for everyone at your practice, including your patients.Here are the 5 ways that ChiroTouch improves workflows so you can practice happier.Scheduling can be one of...

HighlightsAs your practice expands, expenses for maintaining your server, data backup and storage, and information technology infrastructure increase your operating costs. Switching to ChiroTouch cloud-based chiropractic software saves your practice money by eliminating costly IT expenses and reducing the total cost of ownership.Here’s how.Chiropractic practices spend anywhere between $4,000 and $30,000 on servers, depending on the size and complexity of their IT infrastructure. These expenses q...

Back in the day, when Christopher Lang started UNIX®, the only reference or learning materials available were costly vendor-facilitated training courses, the paper version of the manual that came with the server hardware, and if you could find a decent book shop, it was the odd generic UNIX paperback.

Disruptive cyberevents caused by malicious external sources, insider abuse, vulnerabilities, glitches and human error happen, despite the best-laid plans. When an event occurs, a cyberresilient system tries to contain an attack and then prevent its impact from cascading into broader failures.

Now that schools across the UK have shut down, it’s left some parents and carers – many of whom are working from home – with the additional burden of teaching and entertaining their children full-time. The logistics of working while caring for children is complicated at the best of times. Working from home during the lockdown, and since as schools started to return, has left many parents fearful and continually challenged with an even more impossible juggling act.

Meet the new air cooled, single-frame IBM z15 T02 and LinuxONE III LT2 models designed to provide organizations of all sizes with flexible compute options.

The idea of protected execution eliminates the ability for someone to use their access for malicious purposes. Using Secure Service Containers—which have been available for over a year, effectively resolves the problem. Secure Service Containers, now called Hyper Protect Virtual Servers, are available when coding in containers. Organisation using containers require a different approach to solve the same problem, and a second solution from IBM is on the near horizon.

No matter how good their clinical experience may have been, if patients have trouble making a payment in the health system’s financial system, they’ll become frustrated with the health system as a whole. It can cost health systems time and money, risking overall patient satisfaction and revenue. This is where user experience design comes in. User Experience (UX) professionals are always on the lookout for potential usability pitfalls as people interact with software applications.

IBM's 3-pronged DevOps approach helps organizations leverage the IBM Z platform, tools and open-source strategies. Application development operates in open, cloud-native environments. DevOps and the IBM Z platform are evolving quickly to meet the rising demand for cloud-native development, striving to empower developers, system administrators and architects to build and deliver applications using common tooling across the development process and varying environments.

Security and trust are what consumers expect—businesses depend on it, and regulations require it. But cybercrime represents big money and equates to even more significant losses for business. The 2019 IBM Security Report reveals the global average cost of a breach hovers at $3.92 million, with the U.S. topping the charts with an average breach costing $8.19 million—a whopping 130% jump over 14 years. As the frequency, severity and sophistication of incursions increase, organizations must be proactive and vigilant in their approach to security. No one is immune, and the long tail costs—loss of reputation, customers, penalties and fines—are felt for years after an incident. Encryption is one of the best ways to protect data. It renders stolen data useless. However, since 2013, only 4% of the 15 billion records breached were encrypted.

To be effective, health system Chief Revenue Officers (CRO) need to have the right mindset to create a culture of growth, to experiment, and to orchestrate transformation across the entire health system. It’s no surprise that many health systems have a former CFO or a budding, emerging CFO do this role. The CRO is the CFOs righthand resource for all things revenue. Here are five must have attributes for the new health system Chief Revenue Officer.

The health system that can understand patient behavior, identify unexpected opportunities, and anticipate problems before they happen, is more likely to achieve sustainable change and results. It’s predictive analytics that ensures health care executives achieve top priority objectives such as optimizing existing processes, improving patient experience and reducing costs. True North represents the ideal vision from the standpoint of the patient and the health system.

2018 sees the uninsured rate jump, leaving an additional 1.9 million people without coverage. The U.S. Census Bureau released its health insurance coverage estimates for 2018. The new statistics reveal 27.5 million people in total had no health insurance in 2018 — which is approximately 8.5 percent of the U.S. population. The report represents the first government-based evidence indicating an increase in the uninsured rate in a decade.

Consumerism is causing healthcare consumers’ expectations and preferences to align more closely to what would be expected. The link between better patient experience scores, ratings, and financial performance is becoming more pronounced. Patients with better experiences across the different stages of care from registration through to billing are more likely to continue using the services and recommend their provider’s services to other patients. This post will examine a few evidence-based ways to accurately measure and quantify the patient financial experience.