Insights & Advice

NEW Client Driven Updater

Posted on 21. Mar, 2012 by Brad Rourke.

We are pleased to announce a new method for completing updates. From this update forward you will be in charge of installing the updates on your server for your office. When a new update is available you will receive an email with the passkey.
This method will allow us to get updates out to you quicker and will allow you to decide when you want the update.

We have installed the CDU on your server.

In order to run the update, you must be logged in as an administrator

You will install the update on your server by launching the CDU.

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Latest Practice Director update provides optimized iPad experience

Posted on 09. Mar, 2012 by Brad Rourke.

Practice Director Software for Windows & Mac OS X now comes with improved functionality on Apple’s iPad. Practice Director clients familiar with the iPad’s touch screen and on-screen keyboard will find greater ease-of-use, due to new features that include numerous drop-down menus, eliminating the need for extensive keyboard input.

Increasing numbers of physicians are experiencing the benefits of utilizing an iPad or other tablet computer in their exam room. Practice Director is a great option for eyecare providers who would like to access their practice management and EHR software through the convenience of a lightweight, portable tablet computer.

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Practice Director prioritizes software developments based on client feedback

Posted on 29. Feb, 2012 by Brad Rourke.

To make it easier for Practice Director Clients to provide feedback, request a new feature, or report an issue, we have added a Practice Director Feedback Form to our website. Feedback provided through this form is collected and reviewed by our software development team on a regular basis and helps us plan and prioritize what will be included in each update. With the addition of this feedback form, we are better able to track our clients’ needs and utilize their feedback as we continually work toward our goal of keeping our clients first.

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What You Need to Know About the Certified EHR Incentives

Posted on 18. Jan, 2012 by Brad Rourke.

Learn about the beginning of the incentive program, i.e. – the Recovery Act, and discover details about qualification requirements, how incentive payments are calculated, and the timing for these payments. We discuss 15 core requirements and 5 menu items you must fulfill in order to qualify. During this informative webinar, we will toggle from these abstract requirements to providing a visual of a few of the requirements with Practice Director. In addition, you will learn what you need to file to receive your incentive payments and hear about some things you should consider doing to prepare.

Click the link below to view the recording of the January 18, 2012 webinar:
“What you need to Know about the Certified EHR Incentives”
Additional Resources

Here are also a number of links to sources of information that I discussed in the webinar:

1. CMS Official web site for the incentive program: http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

2. HIT Policy Meeting Schedule: http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=1269&parentname=CommunityPage&parentid=5&mode=2

3. Registration information for the program along with PECOS and NPPES information: http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/50_Registration.asp#TopOfPage

If you have any questions, contact us.

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Practice Director set to Release first update to Certified Version 4.0 & Utilizing Amazon Web Services

Posted on 07. Dec, 2011 by Brad Rourke.

December 7, 2011, Lincoln, NE – Practice Director Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of Williams Group, announced that they will be releasing enhancements to their ONC-ATCB certified EHR software. In addition to numerous clinical data efficiency enhancements, the EHR and Practice Management software vendor will now be utilizing Amazon Web Services.

When releasing Version 4.0, Practice Director’s ONC-ATCB complete certified health record, the Company had incorporated Google Health to provide patients with timely access to their eye care health information. Shortly thereafter, in June of 2011 Google quietly announced they would be discontinuing Google Health Services. Practice Director has moved their service of providing timely access to patient eye care health information to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, more popularly known as Amazon EC2. Practice Director will provide a patient portal through Amazon Web Services, which will allow patients to securely access their eye health information on demand. Optometric Physicians will now have the capability to provide their patients with secure electronic access on demand to their eye health information. The Practice Director portal through Amazon EC2 increases the control the software vendor has over providing this service and improves the efficiency and accessibility patients have to their eye health information.

Practice Director is also utilizing Amazon Simple Storage Service, more popularly known as Amazon S3, for its software updates. Amazon S3 is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers, the service aims to maximize benefits of scale, which will allow Practice Director to pass these benefits on to its clients. Practice Director is now utilizing Amazon S3 to deploy software updates to clients by allowing Practice Director users to pull software updates down over the web at their convenience versus scheduling and pushing software updates to clients.

“The addition of Amazon Web Services technology provides scalable efficiencies that will be passed on to our valued optometric physician client base, their staff and their patients” said Brad Rourke, CPA & Vice President of Practice Director. “In utilizing Amazon Web Services we are leveraging state of the art technologies for the benefit of our clients”

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Define your Exam Workflow with Our Customizable EHR

Posted on 01. Dec, 2011 by Tammi.

Practice Director continues to provide one of the most easily customizable EHR and practice management software solutions available for eyecare professionals, and our clients are amazed at the difference. With a few clicks, the EHR can be customized to follow the order of your evaluation, including testing, patient history and workup, refraction and examination.

“The customizable EMR layout is great, allowing us to personalize it as much as we want. Un-like other software programs, where there is only one way to record an exam, Practice Director lets us record our exams according to our business flow. Looking back, we are confident we made the right choice, and we whole-heartedly agree that Practice Director is the best value in optometry software.”
- Derek Swader, OD

For more information about exam work flow with a customizable EHR, contact us here.

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Visit us at KOA’s 2011 Fall Eyecare Conference

Posted on 11. Nov, 2011 by Tammi.

Kansas Optometric Association’s 2011 Fall Eyecare Conference is being held at the Wichita Airport Hilton in Wichita, Kansas on November 19th, 2011. Be sure to visit with a representative from Practice Director Software at Booth No. 13. For more information about the Kansas Optometric Association’s 2011 Fall Eyecare Conference, visit their website.

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