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Vantage principal quoted in PT in Motion magazine
Tannus Quatre PT, MBA was quoted in an article in the May 2010 issue of the publication, PT in Motion. The article, titled “Contemporary Topics in Health Care: Data Mining,” quoted Mr. Quatre with regard to the use of data mining by physical therapists.
See an excerpt from the article below:
Tannus Quatre, PT, MBA, principal and consultant for Vantage Clinical Solutions, Inc., believes data mining is helping the practice of physical therapy.
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Time to throw in the towel on private practice…or is it?
I don’t buy it.
An article in the New York Times today titled, “More Doctors Giving Up Private Practices,” told the story of an increasing number of physicians who are finding their “bliss” through employed, salaried positions, rather than at the helm of their own private practice. The reason – increased costs, decreased pay, and ultimately unhappier doctors in the private practice environment. Again, I don’t buy it.
The article spoke of the…
Electronic health records: Where are the malpractice risks?
As a follow up to the April 21st post by Tannus Quatre, “Electronic health records: Panacea or problematic?“ the push is on to move our country’s health-care documentation system into the electronic age. The recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, allows for federal subsidies of up to $44,000 for physicians who demonstrate meaningful use of EMR by 2011. When the financial incentive is there, it will get done.
A recent article by Steven I. Kern, Esq. entitled Hidden…
Electronic health records: Panacea or problematic?
I’m a big supporter of electronic health records (a.k.a. EHR, electronic medical records, EMR, personal health records, PHR, and on and on). The benefits are too many to do it justice in this short post, but efficiency, error control, speed, automation, and interconnectivity are among some of the most desirable aspects of the technology.
But is EHR / EMR all it’s cracked up to be? Are there reasons NOT to adopt? Are electronic health records for…
Massachusetts healthcare policy gets a shot in the arm – actually, it gets three
How’s this for a healthcare policy trifecta? – Gift bans for pharma reps, $25 million in EMR incentives for private practices, and university requirements to boost primary care graduates. Three big issues in healthcare today…one clean law to deal with them.
Tackling major issues in healthcare policy isn’t easy, and tackling three large ones with one fell swoop is quite ambitious. Pushed forward by Senate President Therese Murray, the new Massachusetts law was signed into…
Standards: The answer to widespread adoption of personal health records
As much as electronic medical records (EMR’s) have been the topic of conversation in the healthcare profession over the last 10 years, most of the buzz has been around the “potential” rather than “impact” of the technology.
One of the main reasons for this is that there exists a lack of standards that allow for the transfer of information between EMR systems. There are some great EMR systems out there, but for EMR’s to really…
Choosing the right practice management software for your practice
I wrote this article for the April 2008 issue Impact magazine, a professional journal that is read by owners of private practice physical therapy clinics throughout the U.S. The information is applicable to all types of healthcare practices with regard to choosing a practice management software package that is the right fit.
We all know that practice management software is here to stay. And while
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Change Management Key to EMR Implementation
I have assisted with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) roll-out into a number of small to medium sized healthcare clinics. Careful planning and management of these projects is important for successful EMR implementation and seems to become even more critical as the number of employees in a practice rises. I came face-to-face with this recently as I assisted with the implementation of an IT infrastructure and a software package into a 7 physician practice with 33 employees. Planning, management, and communication at all…
EHR’s: We’re on the right track, but it is going to take a while
Electronic health records (EHR’s) are of obvious benefit to the long term plan for reducing costs and improving delivery of healthcare services worldwide. To achieve the ultimate end result of a healthcare record system that will facilitate communication between providers, allow for quick entry of data, and that will be provided on a large enough scale to impact the healthcare industry as a whole is going to still take some time however.
Currently, EHR consumers…
Preventing “peeking” into electronic medical records
For large healthcare organizations employing hundreds, if not thousands of staff, it is clear that there must be in place the ability to audit what staff see in regard to patient medical records. In small private practices HIPAA requirements are the same, so shouldn’t the ability to audit the eyes of curious staff be the same? Certainly.
Borrowing from the hype caused by the recent snooping of Britney Spears’ medical record by UCLA staff and physicians, this article…
