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Five fast fixes for your productivity challenges

Provider Productivity

5 Studies show improvements in outcomes and quality among providers using EHRs. This is particularly true

in the treatment of chronic diseases, such as diabetes, which affects 8.3% of the U.S. population.

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Can technology adoption really help your organization improve

productivity, efficiency, and care? Are federal EHR incentive

payments enough to justify EHR implementation? You’ve probably

seen numerous studies on EHRs and provider productivity. While

individual results vary due to provider buy-in, implementation

quality, and other factors, the positive impacts on provider

productivity, organizational efficiency, and patient care are

well noted.The consensus among thought leaders?

Improve care, communication, and reporting with the right EHR foundation.

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With more than 80,000 successful users, and built on 20+ years of clinical experience, NextGen Ambulatory EHR provides the foundation you need to improve productivity while meeting Meaningful Use (MU), Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH), and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) objectives.

Enhance care

• Enhance efficiency and care

management via optimized,

specialty-specific workflows

and accurate, streamlined

documentation

• Improve the application of evidence-based medicine through disease management protocols and clinical decision support

Improve communication

• Enhance care coordination with all members of your patient’s care team

• Enable real-time data exchange and gain interoperability with a wide range of devices

• Integrate seamlessly with your practice management system via a single database and common platform

Streamline reporting

• Gather and store the data you need to access and report on clinical and care quality measures

• Aggregate population records to enable reporting on quality measures

Effectively use the web to engage patients in their care, while enhancing productivity and supporting MU goals

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Engage patients in care

• Ensure patients are up to date with treatments—and easily schedule maintenance visits by running quick reports by disease state

• Enable 24x7 availability of health information

With NextGen® Patient Portal, you can reduce administrative burdens and increase patient satisfaction via web-based tools that engage patients in their care— all while improving MU data collection.

Enhance productivity

• Quickly and easily enable prescription renewals

• Facilitate online payments

• Streamline documentation, such as surveys, questionnaires, and other online forms

• Simplify administrative tasks such as patient intake, patient calls, email communication, appointment scheduling, and more

• Gain a convenient, cost-efficient means of data collection to support your MU goals

• Tightly integrate into the workflow with NextGen®

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More proactively engage with your patient populations.

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Other important benefits include:

• Gain closed loop, proactive outreach tracking with automated protocol-based patient reminders

• Engage patients and facilitate communications using email, NextGen Patient Portal, and more

• Track outreach efforts and analyze your performance using stored appointment information

• Avoid interfaces and additional costs for data aggregation without interrupting provider workflow

NextGen RCM Services users are realizing 1 billion in annual cash collections.

Meet the ACO goals of improving collaborative care coordination and patient engagement. Leverage the NextGen® Population Health solution.

Gain end-to-end best practice revenue cycle solutions that increase income, while decreasing costs and overhead.

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Using NextGen® Revenue Cycle Management (NextGen RCM)

Also...• Optimize revenue while

maximizing technology

• Get full transparency and retain control of the revenue cycle

• Stop losing time and money in managing denials and claim errors

• Outsource coding and/or chart review services

• Use proactive billing and collection services for eligibility verification, claim scrubbing, electronic document interchange, payment posting, EOB imaging, and more

you can decrease A/R days up

to 61%

accelerate cash collections by

up to 9%

reduce claim denials up

to 70%

Improve your clinical return on investment with enhanced workflow

and care quality.

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• Optimize your workflow via organization change management

• Achieve MU readiness by learning about requirements, evaluating workflows, and

assessing readiness for MU reporting

• Get help certifying as a Patient Centered Medical Home

• Receive peer-to-peer training to overcome barriers to adoption, improve technology

use, and gain better physician buy-in

• Improve outcomes for quality reporting

• Gain assistance with quality improvements, such as ongoing support for pay-for-performance programs and other quality initiatives

• 73% of practices saw a reduction in A/R days with higher collections

• 59% reduced claim denials

• 59% accessed better reporting and analytical tools

• Attest for MU while increasing collections by 5-10%

Count on the proven expertise of NextGen® Physician Consulting services to help you streamline and improve your workflow, while meeting your care quality goals.

An MGMA study finds that practices see measurable improved performance with outsourced billing:

We’re learning from NextGen Revenue Cycle

Management services new ways to evaluate

workflows for missing pieces, redundant procedures,

and new tasks that enhance the productivity and

accuracy of our operations. We’re also learning how

to better use the NextGen Practice Management

and EHR applications to optimize our revenue cycle. Patrick Stevenson, Director of IT, Infinity Primary Care

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Did you know?NextGen® Ambulatory EHR version 5.8 is ONC-HIT 2014

Edition certified as a complete EHR.

(For full certification details, please visit www.cchit.org.)

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NextGen® Ambulatory EHR version 5.8 is ONC-HIT 2014 Edition certified as a complete EHR. For full certification details, please visit www.cchit.org

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