Vivlio Health - improving the medical record workflow

In today's podcast, we are discussing a number of regulatory rules and updates that have taken place in 2024 and how they will impact your practice. We discuss the most recent regulatory actions proposed by CMS (Centers for Medicaire and Medicaid services)and ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health information Technology).  These actions are in support of continuing to advance interoper...

Today's clinical information exchange processes are a blend of manual, semi-electronic using various  tools cobbled together to "make it work" for each clinical information need. Even with rising EMR adoption and mostly rising interoperability rates, want to guess the number of way healthcare exchange medical records in 2023? 90% + still rely on fax!    Components of a modern medical record manage...

Most practices spend a significant amount of time and effort reviewing external clinical information to determine what, how much to use and in what format.   How this is being done today probably uses a lot of older technology and is very manual. A good chart preparation process can save practices time and money and provide physicians with the vital clinical information needed for optimal clinical...

Since the early days of EMRs – the pre-Meaningful Use days, EMRs have come a long way in providing functionality for practices to connect to the outside world to extend their business processes and go beyond their practice walls.   But we still have a ways to go – especially when trying to connect to providers, health organizations, labs and other entities where there is no affiliation in some way...

What makes healthcare unique and complex is that it involves both internal consitutents and external stakeholders, multiple processes and a number of technology dependencies.  This podcast is for practice administrators and healthcare providers who are looking to make improvements to their clinical operational processes. We must start with understanding what our vision is for our practice and then...

Interoperability is a critical component of value-based care models and frankly, good care. Practices will need to recognize that interoperability workflows need to accomodate both fax and electronic record exchange. It is important to have workflows and tools that can support our current process and future processes when it comes to managing medical records.  With interoperability at the forefron...

Clinical health information exchanges were created to be used for the bi-directional exchange of clinical information about mutual patients; this means that if you take something from the clinical exchange, so that other future treating providers can see a comprehensive clinical history about the patient, you are required to give something back.   When all providers do this, over time, patient inf...

Our Chief Health Innovation Officer, Ken Bradley hosts Dr. Chad Levitt for our most recent podcast.  A board-certified radiation oncologist and Atlanta-native, Dr. Chad Levitt completed his doctorate and residency at Emory University's School of Medicine. Dr. Levitt has served as clinical director of oncology practices and departments previously in Colorado, Florida, and Georgia. He is the founder...

The need for treating physicians to have a complete clinical understanding, which includes the need for a complete clinical history of each patient hasn't changed, but the process of how that clinical history is found and exchanged is beginning to change. With the new 21st Century Cures Act, the ground rules are taking shape and regulation that prohibits not-sharing is in place. However, we're at...

Our healthcare system is plagued by a number of rising issues, including inefficient management of medical records. What can you as a clinician do? Find out. While difficult, health systems and practices must nevertheless find ways to improve so they can provide high-quality treatment to patients and provide solutions that enable staff to do the accurate and efficient job they want to do.   And al...

This week, please welcome Ellen Bailey, a seasoned executive who is currently serving as a Board member at a major healthcare system based in Atlanta. During her career, Ellen also served as the Chief Operating Officer of a major cardiology practice for 15 plus years where it grew from over 5 to 30 physicians during her leadership.   Ellen has worked in a wide range of industries as an entrepreneu...