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eAWV will Benefit Both Practices and Patients

by Chuck Smith
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| Annual Wellness Visits
April 12, 2013

After spending several days testing our new eAWV Portfolio System, I am extremely pleased with how intuitive and easy to use the eAWV is going to be. I sent it back to our programmers with a few ideas for improvements that should make the process even easier for users. Here’s...
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Annual Wellness Visit: Cognitive Screening during the AWV

by David Wilson
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| Annual Wellness Visits, Educational, Profit Centers, Uncategorized
January 16, 2013

Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit requires a simple cognitive screening be performed on each Medicare patient to assess cognitive ability and/or level of depression. This is not a full cognitive assessment, but merely a guidepost to determine if further assessment is needed. Let’s take a moment to review the reasons for...
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Annual Wellness Visits: Managing Medications

by Chuck Smith
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| Annual Wellness Visits, Blog, Educational
January 9, 2013

In this month’s edition of Costco Magazine, there was an article about how Costco’s pharmacy saves money by obtaining great deals on generic medications. Although an interesting topic, that isn’t what struck me about the article. In today’s healthcare world, the choices on where to receive care continue to expand....
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A New Year, A New Paradigm for Healthcare

by David Wilson
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| Annual Wellness Visits
January 2, 2013

As we venture yet again into a new year, it is an appropriate time to take a look at how things are shifting in the healthcare industry. As anyone in healthcare knows, medicine in this country has focused primarily on reaction rather than prevention. Patient comes to the office tells...
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What is Technology?

by David Wilson
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| Annual Wellness Visits, Business Practices, Educational, Uncategorized
October 23, 2012

As anyone in the healthcare industry knows, there is always a push for newer and better technologies to improve care, reduce costs and promote healthier patients. As someone rather new to the healthcare industry, I have to ask, what exactly does everyone mean when they say technology? It seems most...
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What happened to Personal Health Records?

by Chuck Smith
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| Annual Wellness Visits, Educational
September 28, 2012

What has happened to all the hype about Personal Health Records? Just a few years ago we were being bombarded with the message that everyone should get and use an Electronic Personal Health Record(ePHR). Electronic PHRs were sold as the panacea for sharing information between all our providers and their...
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Part -2 Beyond the Political Talking Heads: Why the Annual Wellness Visit is Needed

by Chuck Smith
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| About Innovative Health Media, Annual Wellness Visits
September 19, 2012

Part -2 Beyond the Political Talking Heads: Why the Annual Wellness Visit is needed. Go to Part 1 Over the last several months, there has been a lot of debate regarding the costs of implementing preventive services in the Medicare community. What is often left out of this debate is...
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Part -1 Beyond the Political Talking Heads: Why the Annual Wellness Visit is needed.

by Chuck Smith
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| Annual Wellness Visits, Blog, Educational
September 11, 2012

Part -1 Beyond the Political Talking Heads: Why the Annual Wellness Visit is needed. Go to Part 2 Regardless of their political orientation, the talking heads want you to believe that the Annual Wellness Visit is a new invention that came into existence within the last few years. This is...
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Making the most out of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit

by Chuck Smith
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| About Innovative Health Media, Annual Wellness Visits, Business Practices, Educational, Profit Centers, Uncategorized
August 30, 2012

How to make the Annual Wellness Visit more efficient and profitable Every practice manager knows that proper management of resources is the number one key to survival in today’s competitive environment. With this in mind, it is essential that each patient visit be as comprehensive and efficient as possible. The...
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Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) Made Easy

by Chuck Smith
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| Annual Wellness Visits, Educational
August 20, 2012

Eight steps to implementing the AWV Meeting all of the required elements of Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit(AWV) can feel daunting. However, it is possible to meet all these requirements by simply having a consistent, planned approach for every visit: Prepare your staff: 1. Designate specific staff that perform the AWVs....
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Innovative Health Media Blog

eAWV will Benefit Both Practices and Patients

Annual Wellness Visit: Cognitive Screening during the AWV

Annual Wellness Visits: Managing Medications

A New Year, A New Paradigm for Healthcare

What is Technology?

What happened to Personal Health Records?

Part -2 Beyond the Political Talking Heads: Why the Annual Wellness Visit is Needed

Part -1 Beyond the Political Talking Heads: Why the Annual Wellness Visit is needed.

Making the most out of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit

Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) Made Easy

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