Improve care, patient engagement, and efficiency in all areas of your practice with these five fast productivity fixes! You and your staff are sure to benefit from these valuable tips.

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Five fast fixes for your productivity challenges
Provider Productivity

2. Studies show improvements in outcomes and quality
among providers using EHRs. This is particularly true
in the treatment of chronic diseases, such as diabetes,
which affects 8.3% of the U.S. population.

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Can technology adoption really help your organization improve
productivity, efficiency, and care? Are federal EHR incentive
payments enough to justify EHR implementation? You’ve probably
seen numerous studies on EHRs and provider productivity. While
individual results vary due to provider buy-in, implementation
quality, and other factors, the positive impacts on provider
productivity, organizational efficiency, and patient care are
well noted.The consensus among thought leaders?

4. Improve care, communication, and
reporting with the right EHR foundation.
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5. With more than 80,000 successful users, and built on 20+ years of
clinical experience, NextGen Ambulatory EHR provides the
foundation you need to improve productivity while meeting
Meaningful Use (MU), Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH),
and Accountable Care Organization(ACO)objectives.
Enhance care
• Enhance efficiency and care
management via optimized,
specialty-specific workflows
and accurate, streamlined
documentation
• Improve the application of
evidence-based medicine
through disease management
protocols and clinical
decision support
Improve communication
• Enhance care coordination
with all members of your
patient’s care team
• Enable real-time data
exchange and gain
interoperability with a
wide range of devices
• Integrate seamlessly with your
practice management system
via a single database and
common platform
Streamline reporting
• Gather and store the data
you need to access and
report on clinical and care
quality measures
• Aggregate population
records to enable reporting
on quality measures

6. Effectively use the web to engage
patients in their care, while enhancing
productivity and supporting MU goals
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7. Engage patients in care
• Ensure patients are up to date with treatments—and
easily schedule maintenance visits by running quick
reports by disease state
• Enable 24x7 availability of health information
With NextGen®
Patient
Portal, you can reduce
administrative burdens
and increase patient
satisfaction via web-
based tools that engage
patients in their care—
all while improving MU
data collection.
Enhance productivity
• Quickly and easily enable prescription renewals
• Facilitate online payments
• Streamline documentation, such as surveys,
questionnaires, and other online forms
• Simplify administrative tasks such as patient intake,
patient calls, email communication, appointment
scheduling, and more
• Gain a convenient, cost-efficient means of data
collection to support your MU goals
• Tightly integrate into the workflow with NextGen®
Ambulatory EHR and NextGen®
Practice Management

8. More proactively engage with
your patient populations.
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9. Other important benefits include:
• Gain closed loop, proactive outreach tracking
with automated protocol-based patient reminders
• Engage patients and facilitate communications
using email, NextGen Patient Portal, and more
• Track outreach efforts and analyze your performance
using stored appointment information
• Avoid interfaces and additional costs for data
aggregation without interrupting provider workflow
NextGen RCM Services users are realizing
1 billion in annual cash collections.
Meet the ACO goals
of improving collaborative
care coordination and
patient engagement.
Leverage the NextGen®
Population Health solution.

10. Gain end-to-end best practice revenue
cycle solutions that increase income,
while decreasing costs and overhead.
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11. Using NextGen
®
Revenue Cycle
Management (NextGen RCM)
Also...
• Optimize revenue while
maximizing technology
• Get full transparency and retain
control of the revenue cycle
• Stop losing time and money in
managing denials and claim errors
• Outsource coding and/or chart
review services
• Use proactive billing and collection
services for eligibility verification,
claimscrubbing,electronicdocument
interchange, payment posting,
EOB imaging, and more
you can decrease
A/R days up
to 61%
accelerate cash
collections by
up to 9%
reduce claim
denials up
to 70%

12. Improve your clinical return on
investment with enhanced workflow
and care quality.
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13. • Optimize your workflow via organization
change management
• Achieve MU readiness by learning about
requirements, evaluating workflows, and
assessing readiness for MU reporting
• Get help certifying as a Patient Centered
Medical Home
• Receive peer-to-peer training to overcome
barriers to adoption, improve technology
use, and gain better physician buy-in
• Improve outcomes for quality reporting
• Gain assistance with quality improvements,
such as ongoing support for pay-for-performance
programs and other quality initiatives
• 73% of practices saw a reduction in A/R days
with higher collections
• 59% reduced claim denials
• 59% accessed better reporting and analytical tools
• Attest for MU while increasing collections by 5-10%
Count on the proven expertise of NextGen®
Physician
Consulting services to help you streamline and improve
your workflow, while meeting your care quality goals.
An MGMA study finds that practices see measurable
improved performance with outsourced billing:

14. We’re learning from NextGen Revenue Cycle
Management services new ways to evaluate
workflows for missing pieces, redundant procedures,
and new tasks that enhance the productivity and
accuracy of our operations. We’re also learning how
to better use the NextGen Practice Management
and EHR applications to optimize our revenue cycle.
Patrick Stevenson, Director of IT, Infinity Primary Care
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15. Did you know?
NextGen®
Ambulatory EHR version 5.8 is ONC-HIT 2014
Edition certified as a complete EHR.
(For full certification details, please visit www.cchit.org.)

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Systems, LLC. All rights reserved.
NextGen is a registered trademark of QSI
Management, LLC, an affiliate of NextGen
Healthcare Information Systems, LLC. All other
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respective owners. Patent pending.
NextGen®
Ambulatory EHR version 5.8 is ONC-HIT
2014 Edition certified as a complete EHR. For full
certification details, please visit www.cchit.org
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