September 19-25, 2022 National Rehabilitation Awareness Week is celebrated the third week of September every year. The week serves to focus on promoting and celebrating the many forms of rehabilitation that help disabiled individuals to reach their full potential and Read more…
Read about the ICD-10 Updates for 2023 below! On May 26, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the ICD-10-PCS code and guidelines changes for FY 2023. On October 1st of every year the new codes go Read more…
The Optimis and Kareo Partnership Offers Independent Practices an Integrated Platform to Help Providers Thrive in Evolving Market
Every year on September 8th, physical therapists (aka physiotherapists) around the world celebrate World Physiotherapy Day with a planned theme. This celebration started in 1996 with the date based on when the World Physiotherapy Association was founded in 1951. The Read more…
What all Rehab Therapists need to know What is RTM? Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) codes were specifically designed to monitor non-physiologic data related to the respiratory or musculoskeletal systems. It also covers monitoring patient adherence and response to therapy, including Read more…
Diagnosing a concussion is not always an easy task. A physical therapist will generally rely on multiple tests to evaluate the physical deficits, cognitive deficits and emotional symptoms being experienced by the patient.However, in relation to athletes, there is something that could make diagnosing a concussion a bit easier for a physical therapist. This is the administration of pre-participation neurocognitive screenings.
OptimisPT is the best in class rehab specific EMR on the market. Our embedded clinical decision support is just one of the features that sets us apart from the competition. In addition, we include all of our other great features such as scheduling, the patient portal, patient engagement app, embedded HEP, and embedded outcomes measures, just to name a few. Another way we are different from our competitors is how easy it is to implement OptimisPT as your new EMR.
August has been recognized as National Dog Month. In observance of National Dog Month, we wanted to take the opportunity to recognize the benefits of Animal Assisted Therapy, in which dogs play a huge role.
Outcome measures are the validated functional tools used to measure a patient’s participation restrictions and activity limitations. These tools can be used to measure the success of rehab therapy interventions in relation to individual patient management and collectively, as a profession, to help determine which intervention pathways comprise best clinical practices. Learn how OptimisPT can help streamline your Outcome Measures Process.
Most practices are coming to realize that there are definitely more problems and concerns in the continued use of paper charts than benefits. The decreased security and efficiency of documenting on paper makes it difficult to justify continuing with this method. We’ve compiled 4 key elements why an EMR is better than paper charts.
