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eNabling Your
Business
February
3, 2010
Technology Tax Credits Available for Medical
Offices
In February of 2009, the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act became law. In this bill, more than $19
billion is devoted to health care IT. One of the programs in
this bill allows any type of medical practice that bills Medicare to
receive tax credits to help defray their costs for converting to
Electronic Medical Record systems, thus allowing them to bill
Medicare directly. The credits are not related to the amount
of money spent on the necessary technology, but rather the amount of
annual billing to Medicare. The program will issue credits for
up to $44,000 per medical professional.
There are a number of requirements related to
this program, so if you are considering such a conversion, study the
program carefully. Also, note that 80% of patients must be in
the system during 2010 to qualify.
If you have a medical practice and our
considering managing your patients electronically, this program
provides a great means of paying for the hardware, software, and
support involved in the conversion.
For more information, review this summary document produced by the AMA. Also,
Future Health Inc, a software company for
Chiropractic providers which we just helped install for a customer,
has good information on the subject.
Buying
Technology Products - Don't Put the Cart Before the
Horse!
If you have shopped for any business technology
product of late, you appreciate the fact that there are a wealth of
products to choose from in any product type. Whether it be a
phone system, firewall, network switch, or laptop, you will find a
bunch of products with annoyingly similar features. So, how do
you choose?
I would suggest that given the complexity of
technology products, the service and support you receive is the most
important single element of your ultimate satisfaction. Buy a
great product from a vendor who can't support it, and you will be
miserable. Buy an average product from a top-notch vendor
however, and you will likely be very pleased with your
purchase. Thus, it is best to pick your vendor first, and then
a product that they sell.
Given the above, here are some quick tips on vendor
selection:
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Ask for an check
references. Since the vendor likely provides
hand-picked references, you must take this with a grain of salt,
but if you read between the lines on the responses, you can get
good guidance via references.
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Take a test drive. If
possible, use the vendor for a small project or purchase.
People who are faithful with small things can usually be trusted
with larger things.
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Ask questions. A good
vendor will answer as many questions as you have, and explain
things as many times as necessary for you to understand. If
your vendor starts to be impatient with you, go elsewhere.
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Guarantee. A good vendor
guarantees their work. If yours won't, try someone
else.
For more information on this topic, visit our blog entry on selecting a phone system.
Get
an Early Start on Spring
Cleaning
Since General Lee did not see
his shadow, Spring is upon us! As such, it is time to think
about Spring Cleaning - of your Outlook email store. Outlook
is a good program that many depend on, but it will quickly become
slow and unreliable if your saved email messages exceed a given
threshold. To keep it running well, store only the minimum
number of messages you can. Set your deleted folder to be
automatically emptied upon exit, and archive older messages you must
save to an archive folder. Also, using a document management
system to store messages can allow you to save and easily find what
you need.
Just remember - a clean
Outlook message store leads to a happy
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