November 28-29, 2007
Visit Practice Velocity at the Retail Based Health Clinic Summit at the FireSky Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona.October 26-27, 2007
Visit Practice Velocity at the Fall Urgent Care Association of America Conference in Chicago, Illinois at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place.October 23 2007
Visit Practice Velocity at the Ryan Associates' 21st Annual National Conference in Nashville, TN.October 4-6, 2007
Visit Practice Velocity at the AAFP (American Association of Family Practice) Scientific Assembly Exposition at Chicago's McCormick Place.May 9-12, 2007
Practice Velocity staff attended the Urgent Care Association of America Annual Conference in Daytona, Florida. With an attendance of over 500 (700 counting vendor reps), it was the largest gathering of urgent care professionals in recent years. Full day pre-conferences included: How to Start an Urgent Care Center Procedures in Urgent Care Occupational Medicine in Urgent Care Advanced Billing in Urgent Care The main session included three tracks this year including an introductory business track, an advanced business track and a clinical track.January 1 2007
Dr. Stern's column published in the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine. This month's column titled "Coding Conundrum: E/M with a Procedure" discussed when to use modifier -25 with an E/M code.December 15 2006
Dr. Stern publishes column in the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine. The column discussed the specific S-codes that are used in urgent care.- S9083: Global fee for an urgent care visit
- S9088: Services provided in an urgent care center
October 26 2006
Dr. Stern's column in the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine is published. This column covered specific issues related to evaluation and management (E/M) coding in the urgent care center. Issues covered included:- Differences between the '95 and '97 guidelines
- Counting elements in both ROS and HPI
- Why the bell curve coding distributions may not be very useful
October 23-25, 2006
Visit the Practice Velocity booth at the Ryan Associates 20th Annual National Conference in Philadelphia. Practice Velocity will feature its unique software, designed from the ground up for a hybrid urgent care center, combining walk-in care and occupational medicine.Both Dr. Stern and Dr. Koehler will be presenting talks on the subject of how to convert to a hybrid (walk-in / occ med) clinic. Other talks will focus on many aspects of occupational medicine.
UCAOA Announces Urgent Care Fall Conference
October 6-7, 2006
First Urgent Care Association of America Fall Conference will be in Phoenix, AZ on October 6-7, 2006. Practice Velocity representatives will demonstrate their urgent care solutions at the Practice Velocity Booth.Jam packed with take-home value, the two concurrent sessions will be:
- How to Start an Urgent Care Center
- Specialty Coding in Urgent Care
April 5-8, 2006
Practice Velocity staff attended the national Urgent Care Association of America Conference in Lake Tahoe. With an attendance of 377 (over 450 counting vendor reps), it was the largest gathering of urgent care professionals in recent years.Full day pre-conferences included:
- How to Start an Urgent Care Center
- Procedures in Urgent Care
- Occupational Medicine in Urgent Care
- Advanced Billing in Urgent Care
June 16-18, 2005
See Practice Velocity at Pri-Med, Midwest at the Donald E. Stevens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois.April 11 2005
AMA News article features Practice Velocity's unique charting and coding system. It described the origins of Practice Velocity."Dr. Stern lectured about coding at an annual conference of urgent care physicians, which led to consulting work and training classes. But physicians - and Dr. Stern - got frustrated with the limits of what you could learn in one day. "That's when the idea came about: If I take what I know about coding and put that into a computer and the doctor just gives us [the information we need], we can output the code and be able to code the charts for them essentially. So instead of training them how to code, I trained them how to document visits."'
November 1 2004
David Stern, MD, CPC of Practice Velocity is named to America's Top Physicians. for 2004. Based on an extensive survey process, America's Top Physicians identifies over 4,700 top specialists throughout the United States in more than 60 medical specialties and subspecialties for the care and treatment of more than 1,700 diseases and medical conditions. According to the publisher, these outstanding physicians included in the guide represent the top 1 percent in the nation, and are affiliated with 570 hospitals across the country. Physician selection for America's Top Doctors is based on a rigorous research process that begins with mail and phone surveys of board-certified physicians. A comprehensive review of the training and credentials of those physicians considered for inclusion is conducted by Castle-Connolly's physician-led research team. Physicians cannot apply nor can they pay to be included in the reference guide.September 27 2004
Hospitals and Health Networks named PV user Central Dupage Hospital (CDH) to the "100 Most Wired" list of hospital systems in the USA. Factors distinguishing the most-wired systems were:- 90% (vs 59% of least-wired) did formal ROI analysis
- wide variety of internet offerings for patient support
- high priority on IT education
- high IT adoption rates of physicians and nurses
CDH uses PiVoTs in all 5 Convenient Care Centers and both Business Health Centers. Administrator Kathy Crampton cites Practice Velocity as one reason for her success in managing these centers.
July 11 2004
Congratulations to Dr. Anthony Molinari, family physician and Practice Velocity user, who was voted by the public as the "Best Physician in North-Central Illinois" in " What Rocks in the Rock Valley 2004".June 17-19, 2004
See Practice Velocity at Pri-Med, Midwest in Rosemont, Illinois.April 30 2004
Dr. Stern publishes article, "Top 10 Errors in Selecting an EMR System" in Physician's Money Digest.March 31 - April 4, 2004
See Practice Velocity at Pri-Med, South in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.January 11 2004
Dr. Stern publishes article, describing how Practice Velocity helped to turn around a financially failing medical practice. See "Turnaround Tale" in Physicians Practice Management (inside back cover.)November 7-9, 2003
Practice Velocity at Pri-Med, New England in Boston, MA.October 16-18, 2003
Practice Velocity at Pri-Med, Mid-Atlantic in Washington, D.C.October 12-15, 2003
Practice Velocity at MGMA (Medical Group Managers Association) in Philadelphia.October 10 2003
David Stern, MD, CPC of Practice Velocity is named to America's Top Physicians. for 2003. Based on an extensive survey process, America?s Top Physicians identifies over 4,700 top specialists throughout the United States in more than 60 medical specialties and subspecialties for the care and treatment of more than 1,700 diseases and medical conditions. According to the publisher, these outstanding physicians included in the guide represent the top 1 percent in the nation, and are affiliated with 570 hospitals across the country. Physician selection for America?s Top Doctors is based on a rigorous research process that begins with mail and phone surveys of board certified physicians. A comprehensive review of the training and credentials of those physicians considered for inclusion is conducted by Castle-Connolly's physician-led research team. Physicians can not apply nor can they pay to be included in the reference guide.October 1-5, 2003
Practice Velocity scheduled at AAFP (American Association of Family Practice) in New Orleans.September 16-20, 2003
Practice Velocity at PAHCOM (Professional Association of Health Care Office Management) Conference in Norfolk, VA.