Practice Management and EHR Improvement Blog

EHR Systems: Favorite Time-Saving Features Revealed by the Pros

What do eye care professionals really think about their EHR system? In September of 2018, eye care professionals who stopped by our booth at Vision Expo West completed a survey to reveal their opinions.

March 20, 2019

First Insight: 25 Years of Innovation and Client Success

1994 was quite a long time ago. Starting a software company back then was not nearly as common as it is today, especially in the eye care industry. Here we are...25 years later.

February 18, 2019

First Insight Expands MaximEyes Sales Team

Since 1994, First Insight’s primary objective has been to help our customers focus on caring for patients and running a successful practice supported by MaximEyes EHR and practice management software.

February 11, 2019

10 Steps for Inspiring Better Performance in Your Eye Care Staff

The new year is the perfect time to celebrate what’s working in your eye care practice. It’s also a great time to look for areas that are ripe for growth. Have you been thinking about new systems and technology, like EHR software? Now is the time to take the steps toward making improvements for you and your staff.

January 28, 2019

Improve Your Optometry Marketing Visibility with These 12 Apps

Modern businesses know that marketing is the key to successful growth and profits. Research shows that marketing tactics, such as blogging, social media, video marketing, email campaigns, and newsletters show tremendous rates of engagement—assuming efforts are consistent and quality-driven. Any eye care practice can benefit from learning more ways to engage their patients. Enter, marketing.

January 7, 2019

Navigating MIPS 2019 Reporting Requirements

It’s hard to believe that on January 1, 2019, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment Program (MIPS) moves into its third year. New data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that 93% of MIPS-eligible clinicians who participated in MIPS 2017 (Year 1) earned positive payment adjustments and 95% avoided a negative payment adjustment.

December 10, 2018

Streamlining Patient Communication for 60% with Solutionreach

To help eye care practices learn how patient relationship management software helps improve patient outcomes and builds a more profitable practice, we are sharing this guest blog from Solutionreach, a First Insight integration partner. The following practice success story features a MaximEyes Cloud client, Springhouse Eye Associates in Pennsylvania, who uses Solutionreach services.

November 15, 2018

First Insight Receives Award for MaximEyes Power Trainings

For the seventh consecutive year, First Insight, developers of MaximEyes certified EHR and practice management software for eye care professionals, received the 2018 Learning! 100 award from the Elearning! Media Group for achieving excellence for “best-in-class” learning and development programs. This year First Insight was honored in the “performance” category for the MaximEyes Power Trainings we host in select cities throughout the United States.

September 12, 2018

A Simple 2019 ICD-10-CM Code Updates Guide That Will Help You Succeed

Is your eye care EHR and practice management software ready for 2019 ICD-10-CM (diagnosis) code updates? Does your EHR software provide automatic ICD-10 updates and have a keyword searchable database to help you find codes without committing them to memory?

July 13, 2018

How Optometry EHR Software Helped a Group Practice Grow

Treating hundreds of patients each week is the norm for Dr. Greg Caldwell, who is one of four optometrists at a large eye care group practice in Pennsylvania. As their optometry practice continued to grow, paper charts and records caused daily inefficiencies for him, his staff, and colleagues.

June 6, 2018

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