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Webinar: Streamlining Clinical Workflow
We showed our customers tools in the EHR that will improve the functionality and streamline multiple processes with the use of automation to help your practice offer patients the best possible healthcare experience. This includes creating "order sets" to make an...
Why your Office Should be Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Multi-Factor Authentication is a process that is used to verify a user’s identity by using a second method of authentication in addition to the username and password. After a user logs in using their regular credentials, the system will send a one-time password to the...
Criterions EHR Interoperability
What is interoperability? Interoperability for EHRs is an important aspect of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare delivery. Interoperability refers to the ability of different EHR systems to exchange and use patient health information (PHI) with...
Important Key Reporting
Why Understanding Key Reports Are So Important Running reports regularly gives you a complete view into the revenue cycle of your practice. You can use reporting to improve processes, spot trends, and identify issues that may hinder revenue collection. It's important...
Webinar: Criterions Patient Portal Benefits
In this webinar series, we dove deep into the Criterions patient portal and how it not only benefits your patients, but can also help lessen the workload for your office staff. If you have questions of how to enable the Patient Portal and receive your unique portal...
Case Study: NY Firefighter Heart & Lung
How Criterions helps the New York Firefighter Heart & Lung Institute care for 9/11 First Responders Background Robert Brown started his career as a New York Firefighter in 1996 and worked his way up as Lieutenant at the New York Fire Department, dedicating his...
Why you should become FHIR API compliant
What is FHIR API? As part of the 21st Century Cures Act, signed by Congress in 2016, a data standard called the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource was created and supported by HL7 International. The intricacy of healthcare data was taken into consideration when...
Why eFax Modules are Essential
Criterions eFax HIPPA Compliant Module There’s a high chance you are still sending faxes daily, which means you must have reasonable safeguards to ensure they are Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eFax compliant and that all Protected Health...
Simplify Patient Visits with Order Sets
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” — Hans HofmannThe aim of any good Electronic Health Record (EHR) software is to allow providers to properly document patient care with accuracy and efficiency. If providers...
Webinar: Criterions eFax Module & Lab Interface
Your practice must ensure that all Protected Health Information being sent and received is safe according to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Criterions eFax Module & Lab Integration enhances compliance with privacy and security rules –...
Lab Interface
What is a Lab Interface? When a practice uses an EHR (like Criterions Software), a lab interface is the piece of software that allows one system to talk to another system. One of the most integral elements of a clinical practice is the use of laboratory encounters for...
Effective Patient Interaction
Effective patient interaction technologies can enhance the patient experience During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations across the country realized they needed to change their already stressed patient intake processes in order to lower the more immediate...
Smarter Healthcare IT with AI
In today's healthcare IT world, predictive models—which learn from past data and generate forecasts or suggestions—are typically mentioned when people talk about artificial intelligence (AI). Machine learning (ML) methods, like those used by the Criterions EHR system,...
ePrescribing Cancel and Change Requests, Rx Fill Notifications
As we move forward in the interconnected healthcare space, phone calls between pharmacies and physicians are becoming a thing of the past. The tools you have today in your Criterions EHR system are sometimes overlooked but can be impactful to your practice workflow...
The Importance of Customizable EHR Systems
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that we must be flexible and adaptable in order to deal with unforeseen situations. Since the healthcare industry in our country was severly affected, it was crucial for healthcare providers to have EHR software that could...
Webinar: Criterions Patient Portal Review & Patient In-Take Add-Ons
In this webinar, our Associate Product Manager, James Keener, walked our customers through the full capabilities of the Criterions Patient Portal, what your patients can complete before and after their appointments, sending consent forms and questionnaires directly...
Why Training Is Key To A Successful Electronic Health Record (EHR) or Practice Management (PM) System
No matter what stage of the EHR lifecycle your practice is in, on-going training is necessary in maintaining efficiency with your software system. It offers opportunities for you and your team members to become more familiar with the program and the company supporting...
Infographic: Integrated Text Appointment Reminders
Don't have Text Appointment Reminders or Text to Check-In yet? Contact Sales below to get started with Criterions Texting Modules!