Troubleshooting: Stop the "Anti-Virus" Virus

Hey everybody,

Many of you have been asking questions about a recent "anti-virus" virus that infiltrates your system by pretending to be anti-virus software.  Once you install the "software," it infects your system so you then have to buy more and more virus-disguised-as-software to eradicate it.  Pretty tricky, right?  Like eating ice cream cake to lose weight!  Or shaving your head to grow out your hair!  Or asking Tom Cruise for advice!

But, behold:  here is an article from PC World that explains how to remove the virus from your computer.  Bam.  It's time we out-virused the anti-virus virus.  

Yours as ever,

IO

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News Article: EMR a 'no brainer'

Dear Faithful Blog Readers,

FierceHealthcareIT, which publishes weekly articles relating to the health care industry, has just posted something worth checking out: it's an op-ed by Anne Zieger about how EMR is awesome. If you think we're biased (and we're not! Okay, maybe we are), just take it from Anne. She'll give you an informed account of how EMR will fatten the proverbial hen that is your practice, salvage the future of health care, and save the world as we know it.

Ever yours,
IO

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Ophthalmic PQRI Measures

IO Practiceware sifted through the 2009 PQRI measures and compiled a list of those that relate to ophthalmology practices that use EMR. Below is a breakdown of measure number, measure description, reporting procedure, diagnosis codes (to combine with office visit code), reporting code, and modifiers on those reporting codes.

By implementing IO Practiceware's EMR software, your practice automatically satisfies measures 124 and 130.

12 - POAG

• Optic Nerve Evaluation
• 365.01, 365.10, 365.11, 365.12, 365.15
• 2027F
• 1P, 3P

14 - AMD

• Dilated Macular Examination
• 362.50, 362.51, 362.52
• 2019F
• 1P, 2P, 3P

18 - Diabetic Retinopathy

• Documentation of Presence or Absence of Macular Edema and Level of Severity of Retinopathy
• 362.01, 362.02, 362.03, 362.04, 362.05, 362.06
• 1P, 2P, 3P

19 - Diabetic Retinopathy

• Communication with the Physician Managing Ongoing Diabetes Care
• 362.01, 362.02, 362.03, 362.04, 362.05, 362.06
• 5010F and G8397, or G8398
• 2P, 3P, 8P

117 - Diabetes Mellitus

• Dilated Eye Exam in Diabetic Patient

• 250.00, 250.01, 250.02, 250.03, 250.10, 250.11, 250.12, 250.13, 250.20, 250.21, 250.22, 250.23, 250.30, 250.31, 250.32, 250.33, 250.40, 250.41, 250.42, 250.43, 250.50, 250.51, 250.52, 250.53, 250.60, 250.61, 250.62, 250.63, 250.70, 250.71, 250.72, 250.73, 250.80, 250.81, 250.82, 250.83, 250.90, 250.91, 250.92, 250.93, 357.2, 362.01, 362.02, 362.03, 362.04, 362.05, 362.06, 362.07, 366.41, 648.00, 648.01, 648.02, 648.03, 648.04

• 2022F or 2024F or 2026F or 3072F
• 8P

124 - HIT

• Adoption/Use of EMR
• All patient encounters
• G8447, G8448
• No modifiers
  

130

• Documentation and Verification of Current Medications in Medical Record
• All encounters with patients 18 years or older
• G8427, G8430, G8507, G8428, G8429
• No modifiers.
  

139 - Cataracts

• Comprehensive Preoperative Assessment for Cataract Surgery with IOL Placement
• Encounters with patients 18 years or older
• 0014F
• 8P
  

140 - AMD

• Counseling on Antioxidant Supplement
• 362.50, 362.51, 365.52
• 4177F
• 3P, 8P
  

141 - POAG

• Reduction of IOP by 15% OR Documentation of a Plan of Care
• 365.10, 365.11, 365.12, 365.15
• 3284F, 0517F and 3285F, 0517F with 3P and 3285F, 0517F with 8P and 3285F
• 3P, 8P