The Technical Doctor Team
Vinod Venugopal, Technology Architect and System Integrator
Vinod has over 12 years of professional IT experience including 5 years of healthcare and information technology consulting service. His IT experiences include infrastructure design, hardware and network stability, full software/vendor support for Physicians Practices. He has served over 500 clients and worked for several Fortune 500 companies. Vinod’s background includes: a position as IT Director for a national tracking vendor, Senior Network Administrator in IT consulting for the #1 consulting firm in the world, a Project Manager for hundreds of software and systems implementations with Customer Service actions. His consulting services include vendor relationships, software support, networks, wireless and security services, disaster recovery implementations and IT purchasing.
Vinod has assisted over 25+ EMR implementations for Physicians Practices and guarantees high comfort levels to a practice regarding all their IT needs.
Carol Teplis, MD, Pediatrician and Group EMR Consultant
Dr. Carol Teplis completed her medical education at Emory University School of Medicine in 1994 and her residency at Children’s Memorial Hospital of Northwestern University in Chicago in 1997. Dr. Teplis is a practicing pediatrician in the suburbs of Chicago. She has enjoyed practicing medicine for the past 11 years serving a suburban community with a large Hispanic population. Dr. Teplis became interested in computers for medicine several years ago and has actively investigated multiple EMR programs during the past 5 years. She has the expertise and proficiency to evaluate EMR programs that meet specialty specific needs, explore issues related to practice readiness, and establish a team approach to implement an array of EMRs for an office or clinic. With the experience that she has gained, Dr. Teplis strongly believes, “In order for physicians to take and maintain control of this upcoming change in the way we practice medicine, we must initiate the search and implementation of EMR systems to meet our own needs.”
Recently, Dr. Teplis gave a presentation on “Searching for an EMR’ held at the national conference, Towards an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) 2008 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Article 2008
Eric Fishman, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon and Medical Records Expert
Dr. Fishman has 25 years of experience as an Orthopedic Surgeon, and 15 years of experience in the health information technology field. After graduating from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a 5 year Orthopedic Surgery residency, he was chief of Orthopedics at Cary Medical Center in Caribou, Maine. He then founded Gold Coast Orthopedics in West Palm Beach, Florida, which grew to a 12 physician practice. He has since left practice to focus on 1450, the leading Dragon distributor in North American. 1450 was founded in 1997, and now specializes in integrating Dragon Medical speech recognition software with physician workflow, both with and without an EMR. 1450 has developed one of the world’s largest databases of information concerning Electronic Medical Records software, which database is used to assist physicians find the proper software for their environment. This database is located at http://www.emrconsultant.com but it also feeds the self-selection process available at http://www.ehrscope.com as well as the print magazine EHR Scope, which can be downloaded at http://www.ehrscope.com/magazine. A more recent project aims at further facilitating the rapid but professional production of medical records. Medical Content Macros, located at http://www.1450.com/mcm is a repository for Dragon Medical macros which can be used, again with or without an EMR, to produce eloquent reports rapidly.
Eric Fishman, MD has since left his Orthopedic Surgery practice of 20 years, and specializes in integrating Dragon Medical into modern EMRs and into physicians’ workflow.
Laurel Henson, Medical Billing Expert
Laurel has over 15 years experience in medical billing and physician practice management. Her medical billing background specializes in Internal Medicine, Radiology, OB/GYNE, Psychology and ENT. Laurel’s working background includes: managing a top 100 billing company listed with Medicare and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois. Laurel has assisted in several EMR/Practice Management transitions and also has an IT Clinical support background. She is capable to work on any PM/EMR platform and has a 14,000 10- keystroke ability ensuring that billing and demographic information is entered accurately and in a timely fashion. Laurel received her CPC coding licensure and takes bi-yearly coding accredited courses; with her continuing coding education Billing services include: Statistical reporting, coding updates, money gain/loss analysis and comparison, as well as full monthly billing cycle. Laurel assists and completes contracts with Medicare, HFS, BCBS and all third party payers for your practice. In addition, Laurel Henson creates a seamless liaison for your practice and the hospital during accreditation periods.
Ms. Henson’s A/R recovery is a strong attribute within her skill set. She is able to locate and coordinate with physician practices to ensure CPT billing and payment recovery from a payer is profitable to the practice. She has a 70% recovery rate of workable aged accounts and has recovered $186,000 of $300,000 for a clinical setting practice with claims ranging up to three years old.