The Mindware Connection

Making Your Office More Productive and Efficient JUST USING YOUR VOICE!

Mindware Connections' Inaugural Western New York Physician Collaborative held at Irondequoit Country Club Tuesday evening focused on Physician Burnout and how Technology can help alleviate issues.    Dr. Jeanne DelSignore spoke on the importance of embracing training on technology before using it. Learning and understanding the EMR system being used, along with technology, like Dragon Medical Software, is what enables her to quickly add patient notes and allows her to have a solid and efficient workflow. She also informed her colleagues that when you take the time to create templates within the Dragon Medical Software your efficiency will be maximized.

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Have you purchased an Amazon Echo or a Google Home?  Do you speak your text messages and emails on your phone?  If you answered yes you are probably starting to see how much easier it is to speak instead of type.  According to Business Insider, the total number of people using voice-activated assistant devices will reach 35.6 million this year, and that number is still climbing. As more and more people adopt this technology, the benefits both personally and professionally become very clear.

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Are there enough acronyms in that title? WOW… healthcare today requires knowledge of its Alphabet Soup and a lot of deciphering of the requirements. However, one thing we know for sure is having the right tools and accurate clinical documentation is critical to obtaining reimbursement. Overwhelmed? Here are three tools to help in your success: 

1. Dragon Speech Recognition Software
   Don’t waste time typing. Getting trained in the expedience of Dragon software will have you updating EHR measures in no time. This allows you more time to provide quality care to your patients. Schedule a DEMO to see how effectively Dragon works in all applications.
2. Helpful Acronym Definitions

   MACRA – Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act
   HHS – Health and Human Services
   QPP – Quality Payment Program
   MIPS – Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (Replaces the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula)

1. Quality – Replaces Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Requires reporting on six quality measures, or one specific or subspecialty specific measure set.
2. Clinical Improvement Activities – New Category - Four medium weighted or two high-weighted activities to receive full credit.
3. Advancing Care Information – Replaces Meaningful Use (MU) Using Certified Electronic Health Record Technology (CEHRT) report on five required measures.
4. Cost – Replaces the Value-Based Modifier (Will be calculated in 2017, but will not determine payment adjustment until 2018.)

1. APM – Alternative Payment Model
   AAPM– Advanced Alternative Payment Mode
   EC – Eligible Clinician
   ACI – Advancing Care Information

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Just 50 short years ago, we didn't have computers, cordless tools, or a microwave... those things were being developed, but they weren't household items for everyone.  It is amazing how fast technology develops and crosses all fields of knowledge!  Keeping up with emerging technologies can provide ease in your everyday life and put you a step ahead of your competition in your business.  Here are examples of just three areas where technology is moving forward.

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Technology moves at a rapid pace, so it is no surprise that we are in an era of cognitive computing - hardware and/or software that simulates the functioning of the human brain.

According to IBM, Watson is “a technology platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to reveal insights from unstructured data.” It actually reads and interprets text, discerns meaning, and gives inferences and responses. It learns via natural language, generates hypotheses, and it actually generates and looks for evidence to support the hypotheses, running analytics against a body of data. All of this allows experts to make more informed decisions.

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I know what you are going to say.

“Training! I don’t have time for training!”

However, the reality is, you don’t have time NOT to train!

Training is your friend… and here is why:

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