2017 will transform the way your practice approaches Medicare reimbursements and patient data. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) doesn’t officially affect Medicare payments until 2019, but a lot is happening as the deadline approaches. Based on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule, 2017 will have a direct impact…
A Day in the Life of a Doctor Imagine walking into your office, preparing to see 20 patients that day, and knowing you have limited time with each of them. You want to be prepared for each patient; but in reality, you will fly from appointment to appointment with no time for a breather. For…
We are proud and honored to be recognized as Allscripts July App of the Month. The Allscripts Developer Program (ADP) provides health IT software companies (like PatientLink) an opportunity to assist medical professionals by integrating with their electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solutions. At the recent Allscripts Developer Summit, PatientLink was awarded the program’s Marketing…
Debi Willis, a software engineer and owner of PatientLink Enterprises Inc., has a passion to solve health care problems with technology. She believes that building a better communication platform to electronically connect patients with clinicians and research is the missing key to bring us into a new era of health care and wellness. Read more…
Audio interview with Debi Willis:
Institute: What are some of your top initiatives for 2015? Willis: We will continue to create and improve our patient engagement applications, focusing on building tools which allow patients to easily gather their information from all their providers and interact with their providers and researchers in a seamless way. We have a very exciting year ahead…
A Feasibility Study in a Primary Care Clinic Using Optical Mark Reader Technology This article presents the study and findings of using PatientLink for depression screening. In conclusion, they found they were able to accomplish screening of nearly 90% of eligible adults in an academic family practice clinic; the screening strategy was acceptable to patients,…
In February 2013, Ambulatory Electronic Health Record (AEHR) implementations and go-lives were paused to improve the system and its efficiencies. The team worked on a variety of issues with the goal of improving performance. During the pause, PatientLink, an abstraction software/hardware system, was piloted at Family Physician Associates in Shelbyville, Ky. Abstraction is the process…
PatientLink® is happy to announce that we have made the Inc 5000 list of the fastest growing privately owned companies in America. We were also listed us as #19 in the top 100 Oklahoma companies. Read more at Inc.com Read more at i2E.com
As doctor’s offices transition to electronic health records, more patient data can be accessed faster. But manually entering that information into a computer can make the work performed by nurses and clinic staff members seem more like that of a data entry clerk. So when Integris’ Dr. Tanya Livingston saw a new product at a…