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Dr. Stern is CEO of Practice Velocity, the leading supplier of software and electronic medical records (EMR) for urgent care centers. In addition to operating the largest billing service company for urgent care, Practice Velocity provides EMR, medical coding, online patient registration, and practice management software to more than 800 urgent care centers in 49 states. With over 20 years experience in urgent care medicine, he is a partner in Physicians Immediate Care, operating 20 urgent care centers in Illinois, Oklahoma, & Nebraska. He is board-certified in internal medicine and is a certified professional coder (CPC). He speaks frequently on the topics of urgent care strategy, coding, billing and managed care contracting. He has been listed four times in the Castle-Connolly publication of Top Doctors in America. He has received a Lifetime Membership to the Urgent Care Association of America and served as a founding Director on the Board of Directors of UCAOA. You can read his regular column the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine. He welcomes your questions and comments about any aspect of urgent care medicine.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Get Paid by Uncle Sam to Use Our EMR

Practice Velocity has just announced that the VelociDoc® EMR has been ONC-ATCB certified by CCHIT®, the most reputable organization for medical software certification. Review VelociDoc's full certification details on our website.

In the past year, Practice Velocity has been inundated with questions about the government incentive programs offering stimulus dollars for demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health record (EHR) technology. The programs are especially vexing for those in urgent care because they were designed with primary care practices in mind, creating a slew of challenges for the industry.

We at Practice Velocity understand what’s at stake: up to $44,000 in stimulus dollars for the Medicare program. In the future, providers who have not implemented meaningful use of an EMR will incur penalties in Medicare reimbursement. Thus, our development team has been working hard to update the VelociDoc® urgent care EMR and PVMSM Practice Management software to comply with the meaningful use criteria.

I’ll be offering a webinar on the basics of the Medicare incentive program in the coming weeks, so watch out for announcements on how to sign up. Until then, please feel free to click the button below to download a whitepaper presented by Practice Velocity that provides an overview of the programs.

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