Seek and Ye Shall Find!

Medicfusion has added some excellent search enhancements to Medicfusion pages, helping providers and their staff find critical documentation in record time without navigating to the patient record:

• Search alphabetically by patient name, provider name or service
• Search numerically by date of service or time of service
• Search results will "hold" until you clear the search field
• Clear the search field by clicking in it.

These new Medicfusion Find Tools allow users to quickly and easily find the patient information they need from the Pending and Pulse queues. As we do with the Find Tool in the Superbill, users can quickly delete inputs by merely clicking in it and starting again.

Remember that the alpha-numeric search tool on every page also is a great help for searching through data fast. On a PC, click Ctrl-F to open the search tool in the bottom-left of your screen. On Mac, click Command-F. Enter your alpha or numeric search cues, and matches on the page will be highlighted for easy identification.

See it in action here!

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Welcome RedPine customers!

Medicfusion EMR is pleased to announce an assistance program for customers of RedPine software. And we'll extend the courtesy to others as well!

RedPine Services, the provider of RedPine EMR software and ChiroCollector billing services, announced this month that it will cease operations by year-end. The company had accepted $350,000 in relocation incentive dollars to move from its Washington state headquarters to Panama City, FL. The company then accepted $400,000 in additional funds in exchange for creating 410 new jobs, according to WHJG News in Panama City, Florida.

Unfortunately, RedPine reportedly was unable to meet those terms and funding has been revoked, leaving the company out of business and its customers without the EMR software they purchased. In these economic times, it is disheartening to see any company fail, or its customers suffer the consequences.

Medicfusion EMR is pleased to announce an assistance program for customers of RedPine software. Contact us at 866.494.1919 ext. 3 or by email, sales@medicfusion.com. One of our physician sales specialists will help you implement Medicfusion EMR with no up-front software costs and just $99/month for unlimited training, support and hosting. We know times are tough, and we want to do our part to help our profession.

A handful of software vendors have taken advantage of RedPine's demise with jabs at cloud technology, understandably defending their client server platforms but insulting the informed choices of our profession.

"That's just shortsighted and irresponsible," said Dr. Dean Rottinghaus, President, Medicfusion EMR. "Is there a person anywhere who would willingly choose a dusty encyclopedia over Google for up-to-the-minute research? Of course not. Settling for outdated client server software is the equivalent of settling for dusty old encyclopedias for research."

Chiropractic veteran Dr. Ed Lauterbach concurred, "In my 20 years in chiropractic, I have spent thousands of dollars on server-based systems and found some unfortunate commonalities. They are outdated, require too much upkeep, high support fees, expensive hardware and servers, and are not adaptable to the ever-changing Electronic Age. Since I implemented a web-based EMR, I know my data is secure, accessible anywhere and at any time, and always up-to-date. I know my software investment is working for me and I know I won't get hit with an expensive software upgrade requirement."

"RedPine failed because of an over-zealous growth strategy and too much debt," said Medicfusion CEO Melisa Kirby. "Physicians seeking software in this economy should employ sound business fundamentals, not emotion, to their purchase decisions."

According to Kirby, minimum key criteria for a sound software purchase decision should include:

• Documentation compliance
  
• HIPAA compliance
• HITECH-required reporting and documentation functions
  
• Patient portal
• Web scheduler
• Flexible Intake and documentation logic
• Voice dictation compatibility
• Patient self-service functions
• Automated voice, text and email messaging
  
• Unlimited training
• Frequent upgrades at no extra charge
• Access to data and ability to send it electronically to payers, patients and other providers
  
• Stable management
• 24/7 web accessibility
• Affordability -- no one should be forced to finance software!
  

Everyone at Medicfusion offers our sincerest best wishes for the hard-working people at RedPine and their customers. We look forward to doing our part to ease the transition to a new EMR.

Please contact us at 866.494.1919 ext. 3 or by email, sales@medicfusion.com, for more information or to transition to Medicfusion EMR. We'll make the switch simple and speedy, doing our very best to avoid interruption to your practice.

Meeting HITECH requirements for "Diagnosis Status"

Federal HITECH rules now require eligible providers to document the status of any patient diagnosis in the record, indicating whether the recorded diagnosis is Active, Inactive or Resolved. The rule reads as follows:

§170.302 (c) Maintain up-to-date problem list.
Enable a user to electronically record, modify, and retrieve a patient's problem list for longitudinal care in accordance with:
(1) The standard specified in §170.207(a)(1); or
(2) At a minimum, the version of the standard specified in §170.207(a)(2).

Medicfusion Providers may enter or alter a diagnosis status in the diagnosis sub-section of the patient chart or SOAP:


Upon opening the Diagnosis sub-section, Providers will see a dropdown selection tool displaying with each diagnosis selected to choose from Active, Inactive or Resolved:

Providers, staff and others may review diagnosis status wherever a patient diagnosis is reported in Medicfusion, including:

• SOAP Notes
• Superbills and Fee Slips
• Pulse Reports
• ePrescribing

Click here for a brief video demonstration of Medicfusion's diagnosis status function.

For more information about this or Medicfusion's many other features, contact us at 866.494.1919 or gopaperless@medicfusion.com.

Are you keeping growth charts for boys and girls? HITECH says you must.

A HITECH rule requires growth charting for girls aged 2-to-18 and boys aged 2-to-20. The rule reads as follows:

The HITECH law on growth charts reads as follows:

§170.302(f) (3) Plot and display growth charts.

Plot and electronically display, upon request, growth charts for patients 2-20 years old.

Eligible providers planning to seek HITECH EMR incentive funds will be required to demonstrate that they can produce growth charts.

Medicfusion EMR automatically produces growth charts for providers by harvesting the height and weight findings documented in a patient's vitals.

Assuming a provider has documented height and weight for the patient, staff can produce a chart illustrating the patient's growth.

Printed and electronic versions of the HITECH-required growth charts may be easily produced as needed and, of course, for the ever-important HITECH attestation for providers seeking federal incentive funds.

If you'd like more information about this or any other Medicfusion feature, contact us by email at gopaperless@medicfusion.com, or by phone at 866.494.1919.

HITECH Questions Answered for Eligible Providers

The Medicfusion HITECH Q&A webinar with EMR Advocate President Jim Tate was a huge success. Jim joined us in a thorough review of HITECH rules and requirements for applying for incentive funds. The one-hour presentation covered a range of questions submitted by Medicfusion customers and provided simple steps for adopting certified EHR technology, achieving meaningful use and making attestation with CMS in order to receive the maximum incentive funds allowed under the law.

If you missed the webinar, please take the time to watch the video here . It's well worth your time.

If your HITECH questions were not addressed in Jim's presentation, please write to us at gopaperless@medicfusion.com and we'll get the answers.

Introducing automated voice and text appointment reminders.

Medicfusion is pleased to announce the release of the next phase of our rapidly evolving Voice and Text Messaging Module. Now, subscribers to this service enjoy the benefits of automated patient appointment reminders delivered by the patient's choice of voice, text, email or any combination.

• Improves patient compliance
• Reduces no-shows
• Boosts patient visit stats

With Voice and Text Messaging, our customers have more tools than ever to communicate with and educate their patients at their convenience, growing their practice like never before.

For more information about this or any of Medicfusion's many exciting features, please contact our sales team at 866.494.1919 x 3 or shoot us an email, gopaperless@medicfusion.com.

Last chance: HITECH Compliance and Incentive Funds Webinar

Only 25 seats remaining!

Don't-miss webinar:

HITECH Compliance and Incentive Funds

Medicfusion EMR, along with our friends at EMR Advocate invite you to attend this very special and important webinar on HITECH incentive funds.

If you are an eligible provider and you intend to apply for HITECH incentive funds in 2012, you won't want to miss this highly focused presentation on the steps to take to ensure you receive the maximum funds available to you.

• Learn how the incentive dollars add up for you
  
• Navigate the attestation process
  
• Understand HITECH stages and important time lines
  
• Click here to submit your specific questions in advance!
  

1:00 pm Eastern Time

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Jim Tate is President of EMR Advocate. He is an accomplished project manager in the development, implementation and certification of EMR and Practice Management systems, and has led numerous implementations in the United States and Asia. Jim presents frequently at national HIT conferences, is active on HIT blogs and webinar presentations and is sought out by the investment community for his input on the trends and direction of the HIT industry. Jim brings a unique combination of skills to successfully address the complex and changing issues surrounding the CMS EHR Incentive Program for the “meaningful use of EHR certified technology” for Stage 1 and beyond.

Melisa Kirby is Chief Executive Officer of Medicfusion EMR. She conceived the paperless system that inspired Medicfusion EMR, drawing on her 13+ years consulting for a large Cincinnati wellness clinic and spa. Prior to founding Medicfusion EMR in 2005, she was Vice President, Socially Responsive Investing Group of Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Inc. As Medicfusion EMR CEO, Melisa oversees strategic planning, research, design, development, vertical partner integrations, support and operations.