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Overcoming the next great psychiatric challenge

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN January 3, 2018

The psychiatric community faces a great challenge. It isn’t one from a new condition, a shift in healthcare or a new treatment regimen. The challenge…

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3 Resources to Simplify Your Medical Billing Codes

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN January 3, 2018

Medical billing codes are an integral part of your business, but the coding process you use can determine whether it’s a needlessly wasteful and time-consuming part of…

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3 Ways a Specialty-Specific EHR Benefits Your Mental Health Practice

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN December 29, 2017

Mental health practices are unique in their patient care offerings, so it makes sense they would seek to work with partners that offer specialized solutions…

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7 Benefits of Using Medical Billing Services

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN December 29, 2017

When it comes to medical billing services in today’s market, it’s really no longer a question of do you need one: You do. There are…

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Is Documentation Getting in the Way of Providing Patient Care?

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN December 19, 2017

Ask anyone in the world of health care why they entered the profession, and they’ll overwhelmingly respond with the same answer: patient care and the…

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Are House Calls Returning for Mental Health Services?

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN December 2, 2017

You turn on an old black-and-white movie featuring a child who becomes ill and bedridden. As a medical professional, you know what comes next: The…

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The Role of Telemedicine in Innovative Mental Healthcare

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN November 27, 2017

These days we all feel pulled in a hundred directions at once, and no one understands this more than mental health professionals. There simply isn’t…

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Protect Your Practice by Performing a Security Risk Analysis

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN November 17, 2017

What is a Security Risk Analysis? To make a simplistic medical analogy, a security risk analysis is the examination and testing you do to assess…

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What Does ‘Parity’ Mean in Relation to Mental Health Care?

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN November 11, 2017

In our society, we generally accept the notion of parity as a good and positive thing. We applaud the fact that everyone gets one equal…

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EHR keys patient growth for Nebraska practice

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN October 16, 2017

Over the last 15 years, Jared Ray, director of operations at First Step Recovery, has seen plenty of change in the health care industry. Some…

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