Weekly Checkup: November 11-15

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This week, we achieved yet another milestone at Power Your Practice: our 600th article! Our celebration involved a few congratulatory pats on the back and plenty of pounding away on the keyboard trying to get to post 601.

We’d like to thank all of our readers for continuing to turn to PYP as their health IT and practice management resource. You keep us going.

Now for this week’s articles:

Power Your Practice

Sutter Health, a large not-for-profit health system in Northern California, is going to implement ICD-10 early in hopes of working out the kinks before October 1. Their approach translates well for small practices looking to do the same.

When patients back out on their medical bills, it can be tough to maintain a profitable practice. But you can increase your chances of getting paid by adopting patient-friendly billing techniques.

In the fourth installment of our 5 Must-Track Metrics whitepaper series, we look at how the net collections rate helps you assess your practice’s collections process.

CPOE requirements have only grown more stringent from Meaningful Use Stage 1 to Stage 2. Follow these three tips to make meeting the CPOE criteria a breeze.

Smartphones have become an indispensable source of healthcare information according to the results from Manhattan Research’s 2013 Cybercitizen Health U.S. study. Find out which patient groups are more likely to use health apps.

CareCloud Blog

CareCloud’s latest infographic identifies where practices are experiencing the most damaging leaks in their revenue cycle.

Here’s something about the Affordable Care Act you may not already know.

According to the Practice Profitability Index, 25% of physicians are looking to replace their current EHR. The problem is that many EHRs simply aren’t usable. This is why you need to know how to identify a user-friendly EHR.

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