The Power of Integration: Benefits of an End-to-End Pediatric Electronic Health Record System for Outpatient Pediatric Practices

Pediatric HealthIT

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, pediatric outpatient practices face increasing challenges in providing quality care while managing administrative tasks efficiently. One solution that has gained momentum is the adoption of integrated end-to-end Pediatric Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. These systems go beyond basic record-keeping and offer a comprehensive suite of tools tailored specifically for…

Cyber Security Considerations when Operating a Pediatric Practice

Pediatric HealthIT

Operating a pediatric practice involves more than just providing medical care to children. In today’s digital age, it also means managing sensitive patient data and protecting it from cyber threats. Unfortunately, the healthcare industry is a prime target for cybercriminals due to the valuable information it holds. In this article, we’ll discuss the highest cyber…

Evaluating Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) for Pediatric Practices

Pediatric HealthIT, Pediatric Office Management

Clinically Integrated Networks or the acronym, CINs, are quality focused organizations that negotiate with payers to provide potential additional payments to providers based on established criteria. This criteria is usually a shared savings based criteria or a HEDIS-based quality improvement metric. A CIN can be one Health System or a Health System and independent practices…

COVID – 19 Impact on Pediatric Practices after One Year of the Pandemic

Pediatric HealthIT, Pediatric Office Management

It has been over a year since the COVID-19 pandemic started in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered how pediatric practices engage with patients. While the changes were significant, pediatric practice leaders and owners learned how to optimize the situation. The wearing of masks and social distancing in the winter of 2020-2021 helped…

How Pediatric Practice Dashboards can enhance the financial and clinical performance of your Practice

Pediatric HealthIT, Pediatric Office Management

A well-designed pediatric practice dashboard can help a Pediatric practice owner and/or administrator enhance the clinical and financial performance of their Pediatric practice.     Well defined financial and clinical dashboards present both data and information to determine an overall financial score and clinical score.   The data and indicators within a Pediatric practice dashboard…

TeleHealth Implementation for Pediatric Offices with less than Seven Pediatric Providers

Pediatric HealthIT

Implementation of telehealth at outpatient pediatric offices prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was limited due to a number of factors.  These factors included:   limited insurance coverage, limited pool of patients willing to pay out of pocket for telehealth services, complexity and cost of starting a telehealth operation.   There was much investment into telehealth companies…

pediatricXpress EHR system by PhysicianXpress, Inc. received an enhanced ONC certification on December 10, 2020

Pediatric HealthIT

Summary of PediatricXpress EHR ONC Certification The pediatricXpress EHR system (version 20) by PhysicianXpress, Inc. received an enhanced Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) certification on December 10, 2020.  The current ONC certification for PediatricXpress includes 36 certification criteria as well certification on eight (8), Pediatric-focused, Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs).  Currently, the pediatricXpress system is…

Review of the December 1, 2020 ONC Conference titled “Accelerating APIs in Healthcare”

Pediatric HealthIT

On December 1, 2020, the Office of the National Coordinator  (ONC) Health IT sponsored a conference titled “Accelerating APIs in Healthcare:  A Year in Review and Momentum for 2021”.    The ONC develops the HealthIT policy and road map for the future of the United States.   When developing the HealthIT road map, the leaders…