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OSIS NextGen Quick Tips — NextGen Reports vs. Crystal Reports

Posted by Nicole Miller on Mar 28, 2022 4:22:49 PM

OSIS NextGen Quick Tips are here to provide insight to Community Health Centers who leverage the NextGen® Healthcare enterprise. With up to two Sound Bites each month, we'll cover topics important to you, including: EHR, EPM, EDR, Behavioral Health, PCMH, and more. These quick tips are free and offer an 'out of the box' resource to help make your NextGen Investment as highly functional as possible. Click More to listen to the next OSIS Quick Tip.

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Topics: Community Health Center, FQHC, NextGen Optimization, OSIS NextGen Quick Tips

OSIS NextGen Quick Tips — NextGen Critical Issues Released January 2022

Posted by Nicole Miller on Mar 2, 2022 1:04:32 PM

OSIS NextGen Quick Tips are here to provide insight to Community Health Centers who leverage the NextGen® Healthcare enterprise. With up to two Sound Bites each month, we'll cover topics important to you, including: EHR, EPM, EDR, Behavioral Health, PCMH, and more. These quick tips are free and offer an 'out of the box' resource to help make your NextGen Investment as highly functional as possible. Our next quick tip discusses NextGen Critical Issues.

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Topics: Community Health Center, FQHC, NextGen Optimization, OSIS NextGen Quick Tips

OSIS NextGen Quick Tips — Get Ready for your NextGen Upgrade

Posted by Nicole Miller on Feb 21, 2022 9:32:50 AM

OSIS NextGen Quick Tips are here to provide insight to Community Health Centers who leverage the NextGen® Healthcare enterprise. With up to two Sound Bites each month, we'll cover topics important to you, including: EHR, EPM, EDR, Behavioral Health, PCMH, and more. These quick tips are free and offer an 'out of the box' resource to help make your NextGen Investment as highly functional as possible. Our next quick tip discusses getting ready for your NextGen upgrades.

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Topics: Community Health Center, NextGen Optimization, NextGen EHR, OSIS NextGen Quick Tips, Nextgen Upgrades

Cybersecurity and Five Steps for Continuous Improvement

Posted by Nicole Miller on Feb 9, 2022 8:57:07 AM
The world of Cybersecurity is always changing and evolving because new threats, vulnerabilities, and risks are frequently being discovered. As such, Community Health Centers (CHCs) need to assess the security posture of their organization and should also change and evolve overtime. At first, this may be an intimidating task; however, if you are practicing using the continuous improvement cycle, the task becomes less daunting.

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Topics: Community Health Center, Cybersecurity, NextGen EHR

OSIS NextGen Quick Tips — Regulatory Impacts on 2022 Upgrades

Posted by Nicole Miller on Feb 3, 2022 8:51:43 AM

OSIS NextGen Quick Tips are here to provide insight to Community Health Centers who leverage the NextGen® Healthcare enterprise. With up to two Sound Bites each month, we'll cover topics important to you, including: EHR, EPM, EDR, Behavioral Health, PCMH, and more. These quick tips are free and offer an 'out of the box' resource to help make your NextGen Investment as highly functional as possible. 

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Topics: Community Health Center, NextGen Optimization, NextGen EHR, OSIS NextGen Quick Tips, CEHRT, Nextgen Upgrades

Avoid Surprise Billing and Provide Good Faith Estimate

Posted by Nicole Miller on Feb 3, 2022 8:50:48 AM

 

Starting in 2022, providers, facilities, and health plans will be required to give consumers upfront information on costs ahead of a service and potential out-of-network costs. Whether patients have health insurance or are currently uninsured, patients will be able to get estimated costs ahead of a service to help them avoid surprise bills. In this post, we will discuss how the NextGen Pre-Services Cost Estimation in version 6.2020.1 can assist practices with these new CMS requirements.
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Topics: EPM, Community Health Center, FQHC, NextGen Optimization

OSIS NextGen Quick Tips — Improve UDS Reporting Today!

Posted by Nicole Miller on Jan 25, 2022 8:55:58 AM

OSIS NextGen Quick Tips are here to provide insight to Community Health Centers who leverage the NextGen® Healthcare enterprise. With up to two Sound Bites each month, we'll cover topics important to you, including: EHR, EPM, EDR, Behavioral Health, PCMH, and more. These quick tips are free and offer an 'out of the box' resource to help make your NextGen Investment as highly functional as possible. 

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Topics: Community Health Center, NextGen Optimization, NextGen EHR, NextGen UDSX Console, UDS Reporting, OSIS NextGen Quick Tips

Uniting Health Centers to Improve Patient Outcomes

Posted by Nicole Miller on Jan 3, 2022 10:15:01 AM

OSIS is a non-profit technology services organization dedicated to providing expert NextGen Healthcare technology assistance exclusively to Community Health Centers (CHCs) around the country. Did you know that your health center could partner with OSIS for grants, collaborative agreements, or other funding opportunities whether you are an OSIS Member or not? Through the OSIS Health Center Controlled Network (HCCN), health centers can receive additional support at no-cost as a participating health center (PHC) for federally funded OSIS projects.

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Topics: EHR, Community Health Center, FQHC

NextGen Patient Experience Platform FAQs

Posted by Nicole Miller on Nov 29, 2021 4:13:35 PM

At OSISwe specialize in implementation, customization, optimization, training, and ongoing support for NextGen Healthcare’s Electronic Practice Management (EPM) and Electronic Health Records (EHR) Systems to empower health centers to focus on patient care. Spring of 2021, NextGen® Enterprise released the NextGen® Patient Experience Platform (PxP) that integrates with practices EPM and EHR systems to help create a more efficient way to communicate with patients. In this post we will answer some frequently asked questions about the NextGen Patient Experience Platform.

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Topics: NextGen PxP

Preparing Health Centers for a Culture to be Cyber Ready

Posted by Nicole Miller on Oct 26, 2021 9:59:48 AM

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and a time to focus our efforts on fighting cybercrime and educating one another on keeping our personal and company data safe. The theme of Cybersecurity Awareness month is Do Your Part. Be Cyber Smart and encourage people and organizations to learn new security behaviors, strengthen learned behaviors, and raise awareness about cybercrime threatsAt OSIShelping our Members protect extremely sensitive information is one of our highest priorities through set policies and procedures to ensure we are exceeding all standards set forth in the HIPAA Security Rules. In this post, we will discuss how practices can improve their cyber hygiene, resources that can help prevent a ransom attack, and discuss the preparation needed to make health centers cyber ready 

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Topics: Community Health Center, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Awareness Month