Month: May 2012
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Reduced Accreditation Fees for Smaller Size Module
AAAHC (The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care) announces an accreditation program that is tailored to the specific needs of practices that offer office based surgery and that is priced to be cost effective for smaller practices. Office based surgery center is defined as a center in which has no more than four (4) physicians…
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Understanding the Electronic Medical Record
Many physician/surgeons and healthcare practitioner buyers want to know how to make sense out of the 300 and counting software companies offering EHR/EMR and practice management systems. Did you know that there are 300 electronic health record vendors in North America? The simple solution is to set simple criteria that categorize companies based on what…
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2012 AAAHC Handbook and Guidelines Status Survey
The following notification I received today 5/30/2012 via email from AAAHC in which describes the change in the 2012 AAAHC handbook for the Medicare deem status early option survey. The following is not my words, I just copy and pasted the letter from the accrediting organization AAAHC. It reads as follows: “Important policy change to…