If yours is a medical practice, you may lay awake at night wondering if your patient and billing data is secure. The worst case scenario is that something happens to your office computers, and you can't easily access and restore your data. That could put your practice in a tailspin, and put you afoul of regulations.
As the medical world moves more and more towards complete adoption of EHR, secure backups and anytime/anywhere access is increasingly more important. Manual backups and onsite data storage are complicated and prone to failure. Truth be told, if you're still backing up your medical billing software and patient records onsite, you could be putting your practice at serious risk of irretrievable data loss. By storing your data backups on the premises, you're substantially increasing the risk that you'll lose your backups at the same time you lose your original data.
McKesson Medisoft with In the Cloud Backups
Meeting use standards may involve implementing or improving EHR software. A critical component of this is proper backup and data storage. According to top IT professionals, that means turning to medical records and medical billing software that provides backups on cloud servers. A web-based solution like McKesson Practice Choice provides your practice with the most efficient and complete data backup and protection format available.
Medical professionals with small practices are often wary about trusting their data - and their patients' health records - to cloud computing, but experts point out that the right web-based solution offers many advantages that you simply won't get with your own server-based EHR software. Those advantages include:
* Immediate access to all your practices' records from any location where you have computer and Internet access
*Real-time updating of patient charts with test results, diagnoses and prescriptions
* Wall-to-wall up-to-the-minute backups of all your patient and medical billing data
* Near 100% availability of health records to medical professionals and patients
* Remote updates and upgrades for your medical billing software so that you're always in compliance with the latest standards
Other Benefits
With McKesson Practice Choice, medical practices obtain the benefits ANSI 5010-compliant medical billing software combined with a full suite of practice management software. McKesson is the provider of Medisoft, Medisoft EMR and Medisoft Clinical. In addition to secure backups and remote upgrades, McKesson Practice Choice helps you streamline your practice by automating tasks that take time away from patient care. Those tasks include appointment scheduling and appointment reminders, populating database fields from your patient encounter notes and creating billing forms based on your medical charting notes and other information entered into the patient chart.
Easy To Use
One of the best features of this software is the ability for each staff member to have a personalized portal that provides one-screen access to billing, diagnosis, messaging and other modules. McKesson Medisoft can also provide patient portals so that your patients can check their own health records, read your recommendations and manage their own appointment scheduling and prescription refills. Like other McKesson medical records software, Practice Choice uses Bright Note technology, which allows you to enter your patient notes in the way that's most comfortable for you - voice, stylus, keyboard or touch screen - and then populates the data you enter throughout the patient chart.
These are just a few of the many benefits offered by medical billing software like McKesson. When you integrate the software into your medical practice, you can rest easily, knowing that your data is secure and that your practice is compliant.
Author Resource:
Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the world's MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web.
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