eCW Podcast

Howard Shpritz from Total Health Care shares how AI is helping practices improve operations and patient access by predicting and rescuing missed appointments. Howard discusses Total Health Care's experience with no-shows, the information they get from the healow no-show prediction AI model, and the success of their outreach. This podcast is a must-listen for healthcare providers looking to improve...

Discover the power of the eClinicalWorks® Practice Growth Management (PGM) Dashboard in our latest episode. Join our guest, Cyril Thomas, as he discusses the importance of growth strategies for medical practices and how the PGM Dashboard can help you achieve your goals. Gain insights on key performance indicators (KPIs) for front, mid, and back-office operations, and learn how to leverage these me...

Discover how custom reports in the eClinicalWorks Business Optimizer™(eBO®) can enhance patient care by offering a more comprehensive understanding of your patient population. In this podcast, we speak with Ron Franklin, Senior Health Information Analyst at Hampton Roads Community Health Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, about how implementing custom reports has given them better insight into their...

The eCW Podcast speaks with Geli King-Brown, senior director of quality management at Healing Hands Ministries (HHM), about how her organization is expanding its locations and services to extend healthcare to those who can't afford it. Geli discusses how the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program has helped the organization standardize the care it provides by establishing policies, procedure...

In this episode of the eCW Podcast, Deputy Patient Safety Officer Paula Bigwood discusses the importance of staying informed about patient safety, security, and compliance, and how eCW is making it easier for teams to keep up with critical updates. The redesigned safety, security, and compliance dashboard on the support portal includes six tabs to help users sort and filter advisories according to...

In this episode of the eCW Podcast, we dive into the latest V12 enhancements of PRISMA, the industry's first health information search engine . PRISMA streamlines the way clinicians access and analyze patient data. It consolidates internal and external information from various encounters into a unified, easy-to-search platform. With the new features in V12, clinicians can effortlessly search and f...

In this episode of eCW podcast Dr. Seth Eaton from MedPeds in Laurel, Maryland, discusses the adoption of version 12 of eClinicalWorks Electronic Medical Records. The upgrade to version 12 was browser-based and a major cultural shift from the desktop version earlier. Some of the new features that have had the biggest impact on productivity are better-managed order sets and macros, and easier ways...

In the latest episode of eCW Podcast, Morgan Borenstein highlights the newest enhancements to healow TeleVists, along with introducing healow Meet. Hear about the five-step activation wizard, sending messages to waiting patients, and inviting up to two additional contacts to a TeleVisit. healow Meet group telehealth solution allows healthcare providers and more than one patient at a time, to book...

In this podcast episode, Kunal Wagh discusses the Safety and Compliance Dashboard feature of eClinicalWorks that helps practices monitor potential patient safety issues and ensure compliance. The dashboard provides access to over 180 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including unlocked encounters, percentage of uncoded allergies, and inaccessible tasks, which can be added to a "watch list" for ea...

In our latest episode of the eCW Podcast, hear from our own Sharmeelee Tasto how clinical and technical teams collaborated in person and online in unscripted testing of eClinicalWorks V12 before its release to customers. The hackathon, as it's referred to, was a recommendation from the Patient Safety Board to increase clinician involvement in the prerelease exercise of unscripted testing to identi...

Find out how healthcare professionals at Chisholm Trail Pediatrics, a nine-provider two-location pediatrics practice, are using healow Patient Engagement solutions like healow CHECK-IN, healow Pay, and customizable appointment reminders via text message to provide better care to patients and their families. 

Virginia's Johnson Health Center wasn't maximizing use eClinicalWorks, but EHR Implementation Services optimized their engagement with the browser version and improved customization and care delivery.

One of the lesser-known aspects of the eClinicalWorks EHR, Rules Engine Alerts contain enormous power to improve care by holding providers accountable for attending to care issues as they arise. Jose Rocha of Performance Medical Management explains how a practice can use alerts to help ensure that providers and staff deal with care issues on the spot, capturing all necessary claims data.

At Brookhaven Heart & MD365, Dr. Sateesh Joseph and staff use Remote Patient Monitoring to more closely monitor patients' high blood pressure, enabling providers to reduce in-office visits, improve outcomes, and focus more of their efforts on those complex cardiac patients who need more attention.

eCW Podcast host Adam Siladi and Dr. Dhrumil Shah, a physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Compass Medical, a 150-provider, multispecialty group in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, discuss how a team-based approach can help reduce the risks of provider burnout while helping today's busy medical practices achieve the goals of value-based care.

Because two-thirds of their patients lack insurance and are self-pay, HealthWorks for Northern Virginia can't rely upon insurance payer data to obtain the patient records they need. But as Jesse Burke explains, using healow Insights PRISMA enables HealthWorks to get the data they need at the point of care, because PRISMA gathers information from all available EHRs nationwide using queries based on...

For the last two years, Prima CARE, a medical practice with more than a dozen locations in Southeastern Massachusetts, has been using healow Insights to improve patient care. A secure, bidirectional interface allows practices to exchange patient information from any available internal or external network or hospital in the area or across the nation with health insurance companies and Pharmacy bene...

Monica Salopek of Acadiana Health & Wellness in Lafayette, Louisiana, said that providers are the driving force behind successful implementation of Chronic Care Management (CCM) programs. Her practice launched the CCM program to focus on patients who need more one-on-one attention. They have succeeded with it thanks to the initiative and strong communication skills of providers, with follow-up com...

In this edition of the eCW Podcast, we explore how Sun Life Family Health Center, a federally qualified Health Center in Casa Grande, Arizona, has made effective use of the payer data they obtain through healow Insights. The service has been a key to obtaining the data and insight they need to close gaps in care, derive greater value from annual Medicare wellness visits, and improve their Star rat...

Abbreviating medications and procedures may be convenient, but physicians today are learning to break old habits and are avoiding abbreviations that can be misinterpreted and lead to patient harm.

New price transparency rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services required hospitals and hospital-owned organizations to post machine-readable files in plain language that will allow patients to generate estimates for what they will pay for a given medical service. By using the healow Price Transparency tool, medical organizations can comply with CMS rules and gain a competitive advan...

Is your practice still billing patients with paper statements, incurring the costs of printing and postage, putting up with errors, and waiting weeks or even months to get paid? There is a better solution! healow Payment Services lets patients make copayments or settle balances at any point during the cycle of care. Payments can be made through your website, a secure text link sent to a smartphone...

The latest eClinicalWorks Behavioral Health module offers Bridge Community Health Clinic, an FQHC in Wausau, Wisconsin, the tools they need to deliver quality care. Dr. Dakota Kaiser, Clinical Director of Behavioral Health, cites phased treatment plans, the Data, Assessment, and Plan tool, integrated timer, in-place editing, and new options to protect patient confidential as key features for his o...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pioneer Physicians Network, a 70-provider organization in the Greater Akron, Ohio area decided to "right size" their practice. They used Revenue Cycle Management services from eClinicalWorks to shift burdensome work off their staff, allowing them to maximize the effectiveness of existing personnel and resources. Pioneer centralized their eligibility processes,...

In this edition of the eClinicalWorks Podcast, Farah Saeed, a member of the Interoperability Team at eClinicalWorks discusses the importance of practices received ADT (admission, discharge, and transfer) notifications from hospitals for patients under their care. By enabling Direct messaging and using the eClinicalWorks Transition of Care Notifications dashboard, practices can keep up with the sta...