Weekly Checkup: March 11-15

After marching halfway through March, we’re taking a step back to reflect on a few major issues this week.

Diagnostic errors, for one, scare some of us out of our wits, and a tarnished online social media reputation can nearly take your practice down nowadays. Check out the rest of the week’s articles after the jump.

CareCloud’s own in-house Meaningful Use expert, Michael Pepe, gave PYP some expert insight of some of the trickiest core MU measures to meet – invaluable data, really. Click here to learn more.

The inadequate capture of a patient’s medical history and failure to review his or her previous documentation during the patient encounter was to blame for more than 78% of diagnostic errors. Read more about this alarming problem.  

On Wednesday, Power Your Practice published the first article from our content partnership with Amanda Guerrero of MeaningfulUseNetwork.com and HealthTechnologyReview.com. In her article, she makes a convincing case for the benefits patient engagement has on medical practices’ revenue cycle.

Don’t miss the final installment of our Time for a Switch series. Not only are we concluding the five-part guide to switching your practice management systemwe’re offering tips, too.

We can’t stress this enough – social media is GOOD for your practice. Not only is this true in terms of patient acquisition, but engaging current patients and maintaining a healthy online reputation as well. Here’s some help with social media strategy.

And that’s all for this week, unfortunately. We know you’re heartbroken, but you can always do something about it. See that Guest Post link above? Send something our way and make a dent in the ways others, well, power their practices.

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