Feb 2005

Features

Purchasing an Affordable Electronic Health Record

Louis Spikol

Practicing Without Paper Charts: One Clinic's Experience

Robert Rowley

Electronic Health Records: A User-Satisfaction Survey

Kenneth G. Adler; Robert L. Edsall

How to Select an Electronic Health Record System

Kenneth G. Adler

Departments

Editor's Page

Electronic Health Records: Taking the Plunge
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

New Year, New Medicare Benefits
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

Managing the Habitual No-Show Patient
Tito Izard

Balancing Act

Making the Most of Every Minute
Carla Jardim

Letters

• E-H-R Spells Trouble

• More EHR Woes

• How Will Data Standards Affect EHRs?

• Full Financial Disclosure Would Help EHR Assessment

Coding & Documentation

• Care Plan Oversight for Medicare Patients • ICD-9 Code for Prescription Drug Management • Work RVUs for OB Ultrasound • Coding Cerumen Removal • Newborn-care Codes • Telephone Care • Coding Visits to Care Facilities • HCPCS Code for Depo-Testosterone • Deep Excision of a Lipoma

Monitor

• EHR Certification Process to Begin by Summer • Most Family Physicians Will Convert to Electronic Health Records, Says Survey • Malpractice Premiums Decline in at Least One State • Public Weighs in on Top Health Care Priorities

Ask FPM

• When to Notify Your Malpractice Insurer About a Claim • Document Refills Thoroughly • Agreements to Limit Liability

Practice Diary

• Headache • Ticketed!

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