Should My Practice Jump On the HIT Highway?  

Category: Billing

By: Vanessa Best, CCS-P, CPC, AHIMA ICD-10 Trainer, CHTS-IM

According to Forbes, more than 50% of all adult Americans own a smartphone. Is your phone a smartphone? Well, if your phone and/or tablet can take pictures and videos, tweet, search the internet, connect to apps, log onto programs, play games, send and receive text messages, send and receive emails, and also actually make telephone calls, then you have a smart phone!  All of this is possible due to technology.

Technology has also made it possible for patients and doctors to benefit from the HIT Highway. That same smartphone and/or tablet in the hand of a doctor enables the clinician to use a handheld computer to check a patient's medication history, write a prescription and electronically send it to the pharmacy, document a patient visit and send it to the cloud to be integrated by the billing departme...