Genesis Chiropractic EHR | New user tip #1 – Practice makes perfect
By Lisa Ogden ~ Profitability Coach for Genesis You can achieve success with the Genesis Chiropractic EHR system and build your dream practice when you and your staff complete the recommended training prior to going live. Chiropractors who wait until they actually see patients to learn the system “on the go” commonly run into the following 4 problems: Frustration: Not being able to use something when you most need it can be very frustrating for anyone. Even more so when your livelihood depends on it. Wasted time: Without establishing a level of comfort, documenting a patient visit can take much more time than Genesis is designed for. Compliance issues: Very similar to the paperwork that might be piling up on your desk, not getting to know your Genesis system can often result in incomplete and/ or unsigned SOAP notes. Unsigned notes are a major compliance or audit risk. Delayed payments: Payers don’t submit payment for incomplete or unsigned notes. The good news is that these four issues do not occur for practices that take the following 4 steps PRIOR to going live with their Genesis platform: Step 1: Participate in live online training session with Genesis staff: Our staff will walk you through proper visit documentation, step by step. Step 2: Create mock patient accounts: Spend time documenting several test patient visits including note sign-off and claim submission. Document the type of visits that are common for your practice. Document initial and follow up visits. Initial visit documentation will obviously take more time than follow up. You should be shooting for under 2 minutes for documenting initial and 10 seconds for most follow up visits. Step 3: Customize your Genesis platform: After you have spent some time getting to know your new platform, you may discover that minor customization is needed to improve efficiency. Schedule a second live training session to learn how easy it is to improve your user experience with customization. Step 4: Practice documenting: Now that you have made some minor tweaks to your documentation platform its time to practice documenting again to ensure you have everything set the way you want it. Your goal should be to document a visit, sign off on your notes, and submit a claim while the patient is still in your office. If you haven’t achieved this level of efficiency yet, it is important to contact your profitability coach and discover what might be holding you back. Take the time to get to know your new platform to eliminate frustration and achieve the top tier performance you are looking for with your chiropractic EHR.
Optimize your Chiropractic Office Workflow with Custom EHR software
Do you feel anxiety because your chiropractic Electronic Health Record system doesn’t match your clinic’s workflow? Your productivity can suffer if your documentation and forms are not integrated into your clinic’s workflow. And if your EHR software does not match your workflow your clinic’s profitability will also take a hit since you don’t get paid for documenting. Updating your chiropractic software for the ever-changing documentation requirements can be just as costly as customizing your forms since those need to be distinctive for your specialty and practice. Aside from those financial aspects, you also need an EHR system that is easy to use since you don’t have time to learn new software or enhance your limited technological skills. Ideally, your system should help you streamline your office and save you time on documentation. Features like scoring and computation should be included for increased accuracy of your patient documentation. Genesis chiropractic EHR increases efficiency and ease of use for you with customization options to match your clinic’s unique needs. You can make our EHR documentation (xDocs) entirely your own by integrating your old forms and practice logo. You can save time by using checkboxes and auto-population of patient data when creating new notes for existing patients. All new forms are automatically and instantly tied to your patient database. Best of all, you can create them while still table-side with your patient instead of having to catch up on documentation after office hours. You can also have your patients fill out their intake forms at your clinic’s patient kiosk to speed up and improve patient data collection. Genesis EHR Documentation (xDocs) also includes insurance verification forms, chiropractic notes, and a specialized package for chiropractors: the Chiropractic Bio Physics Suite. Contact your Profitability Manager to activate your xDocs within your Genesis EHR system.
Chiropractic EHR | How much are No Shows costing your clinic?
Do you know how patient No Shows (NS) impact your chiropractic clinic? When patients do not make their appointments and they leave it up to you to contact them to reschedule it tells you a lot. It shows they do not value the adjustment and they are not making the connection between making all of their visits on time and the improvement in their function or health. It is a BIG warning sign that they are an attrition risk. Your time to save them is running out. At the same time the bottom line of your practice suffers due to decreased revenue and wasted time. Follow up on no shows is mission critical. If a patient stops treatment you might have to return any payments received which further reduces your practice’s cash flow. Not to mention that you won’t be getting any referrals from patients who don’t get better. As a result, they must be rescheduled with a sense of urgency. They need to your help to reset their goals, expectations, action plan. You have to help them too take responsibility for their role in their own health. It can save their life, give you a great sense of purpose, and be the most profitable conversation you can have in your business. It is important to know exactly how much income your clinic is losing due to No Shows so that you can measure your improvement. If you replace the assumptions below with your own numbers you can calculate your estimated No Shows loss per month, just like in the following example. Assumptions: The average payment for one Patient visit is $30.00 Calculations: Daily CostTwo no shows per day cost you $60.00 per day:2 x $30 = $60 Weekly CostTen no shows per week cost you $300:10 x $30 = $300 => Annual Cost In a year your loss of income is $15,600: 52 x $300 = $15,600 The good news is that you can reduce this lost income by using Genesis’ scheduling and ticket system to reschedule all No Show patients. Plus, you can view No Show trends at a glance on your Radar Chart. When you make sure all of your patients have another appointment scheduled, relationships improve and your practice grows along with your profits.
Software Support and Training at Genesis
In a continued effort to improve the overall client-user experience Genesis has added a brand new chiropractic software user support system and clinic training team. This team consists of system experts dedicated to getting new users up and running faster than ever before, making sure that new features are understood and properly utilized by both new and veteran system users alike. Although Genesis’ in-context help pages usually eliminate most of the confusion new users might experience, the Practice Training Team helps all Genesis clients with personalized training to aid in total system mastery. Clients can also get quick answers without ever picking up the phone by opening a help request ticket to System Help (Practice Training Team). While it usually takes about 24-48 hours for a team member to resolve a help request ticket, clients can get the answers they need to immediate issues by opening a ‘critical’ ticket. All critical tickets must be addressed within one hour of its creation time. In addition to the in-context help files and help request tickets, Genesis clients can also participate in daily live interactive training webinars (9 per week) and ask any questions they may have concerning the use of the chiropractic software platform. Topics discussed include any software features in regards to chiropractic documentation, billing, compliance and more. The Live Help Calendar and access info can be found in the drop down menu under ‘Help’ in the top menu. Last but certainly not least, clients can also call or open a ticket to their Single Point of Contact (SPOC) who will then initiate a live call with a member of the Practice Training Team.
