Perspective 

Since the dawn of the EMR (or at least for the last 15 years), there have been equal parts dismay and disbelief over the amount of paper generated during a patient’s admission for a customer fully live on an EMR system. 

In our Coding Alignment Part 1 earlier this week, we outlined the considerations for beginning the process of integrating your facility and professional coding workstreams/departments from an operational perspective. Now we would like to focus on system [...]

We’ve all been there. You're sitting in a meeting and someone brings up something your department is not excelling at right now. You look around, kind of embarrassed and acknowledge that yes, we know this is something we need to work on….it’s just been [...]

A great article about one of our customers, Harris Health System, and the great work they have been doing in the Houston community for 50 years!

July 1, 2015 - Madison, WI. The first day of July saw a world's first at the Dane Country Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin. The first mass media advertisement for the The Wilshire Group debuted. We are extremely excited about our ad, located in all [...]

We are half-way there!  The House overwhelmingly passed legislation to repeal Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment formula – without any mention of ICD-10. So the bill does nothing to change the current implementation date of 10/1/15. The vote [...]

Even in the dozen years or so that I’ve been working, electronic communication has changed so much. We are all on the go, and it’s common that a lot of email is done from phones & tablets; maybe even more so than laptops. With this comes a tendency to [...]