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CollaborateMD Supports Haiti Efforts

Monday, February 15th, 2010

On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, the country of Haiti was hit by a catastrophic earthquake measuring 7.0 in magnitude. This news is devastating and we, at CollaborateMD, would like to send our condolences to all of those affected by this tragedy.

In times of tragedy and despair, encouragement and support is needed most. To show our support to the victims of the Haiti, CollaborateMD has donated $10,000 to UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief). From our donation, 100% will be used by UMCOR to provide relief in Haiti.

To learn more about this organization, please use the link below:
http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/give/manyways/

Another act of support, orchestrated for our organization by Client Services Analyst, Karen Desanges, is a food and clothing drive. Karen will be collecting food, clothing, and toiletries. These items will be collected until Friday, January 22. The collected items will be sent to a non-for-profit organization known as Help Haitians Live, Inc. This organization has been doing missionary work for 12 years in Haiti. They focus on reaching the people who are on the outskirts of Haiti and have difficulty getting to the help needed.

To get more information on this organization, click the link to this organization’s website below:
http://helphaitianslive.com/default.aspx,

In addition to the above relief efforts, I, along with others, sent a pledge to Yѐle Haiti simply by texting YELE to 501501 to donate $5 to the Yѐle Haiti Earthquake Fund. Yéle’s community service programs include food distribution and mobilizing emergency relief. Grammy-Award winning musician, humanitarian and Goodwill Ambassador to Haiti Wyclef Jean founded Yéle Haiti in 2005.

To learn more about this organization and their efforts, use the link below:
http://www.yele.org/

Please consider providing your own support, as this is a nation in need.

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January eBlurb

Monday, January 4th, 2010









Stay connected with CollaborateMD!     Become a fan on Facebook    Follow us on Twitter     Link up on LinkedIn    Subscribe to our Blog	Are You Subscribed to the CollaborateMD Blog?  Happy New Year! Are you ready for success in 2010? That’s a pretty easy question; every office wants to be successful. The trick is in how you define success in your business. Is your goal for this year to cut costs or increase revenue? Are you focused on growth and expansion? Perhaps you’re taking a closer look at improving patient care, or maybe you’ve decided to take a plunge into new technology? Whatever goals you’ve set for 2010, our goal is to help you acheive them! Before we get too far into the new year, let’s recap December: CollaborateMD Gives Back Since Doug Kegler (Founder, CEO and Chief Giver) announced a philanthropic campaign program to encourage more charity involvement and donations amongst employees, we have all worked together to raise more than… (more info) Teaching Tardy Patients Check out our synopsis of a recent AMA article on the effects of tardy patients, and don’t miss the tools we mention that are sure to improve patient communication and dramatically reduce no-shows… (more info) Earn Big in 2010! Chances are that you know of at least one industry contact who is fed up with their current medical billing and/or practice management solution and could greatly benefit from switching to CollaborateMD, the #1 hybrid SaaS medical billing solution. Read this blog post to learn how you can earn big in 2010… (more info) Helping you stay connected, The CollaborateMD Bloggers p.s. Blog subscribers often receive special offers first! If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can set yourself up for success here.
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December eBlurb

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009









Stay connected with CollaborateMD!     Become a fan on Facebook    Follow us on Twitter     Link up on LinkedIn    Subscribe to our Blog	Are You Subscribed to the CollaborateMD Blog?  Happy Holidays! Last month, our eBlurb posed the question, "How are you going to further optimize every activity to be most productive?" We have heard from some of you who are trying out new CollaborateMD services, and others of you who are learning to more strongly utilize the features you already have. The consistent clue we keep getting from our users is that they are working toward leveraging their strengths to more sharply attack their problems, and we commend them for it! Of course, we get our kicks out of helping you define those problems and determine–then execute–a course of action that is sure to garner measurable results. We have even offered a complimentary analysis of customer accounts to provide additional value, so be sure to contact us if you’re interested in this service. Now…on to the blog! If you aren’t a subscriber, here is what you missed in November: CollaborateMD.com Gets a Makeover This month, we launched a refreshed version of our site and have listed the most notable changes on the blog, such as the new pages for events, conferences, careers, service partners, industry partners, affiliates, associations, and users… (more info) Save the Date for Conference 2010! We have officially secured the dates and location for our next annual user conference. Mark your calendars and get ready for another incredible event… (more info) A Very Thankful Thanksgiving Post This article gives our readers a little insight into the holiday festivities happening around our office and in the homes of our team members. Read what many of our employees have to say about the things for which they are most grateful… (more info) Reimbursable H1N1 webVisits Announced We are spreading a little health news in addition to holiday cheer around here. This post announces a new way to keep infected patients away from healthy patients, improve overall patient care, and even bring in revenue to providers… (more info) Helping you stay connected, The CollaborateMD Bloggers p.s. Blog subscribers often receive special offers first! If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can set yourself up for success here.
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November eBlurb

Thursday, November 5th, 2009









Stay connected with CollaborateMD!     Become a fan on Facebook    Follow us on Twitter     Link up on LinkedIn    Subscribe to our Blog	Are You Subscribed to the CollaborateMD Blog?  Who turned out the lights?! Now that Daylight Saving Time has officially ended, you have probably noticed it’s a little darker outside as you head home from a day at the office, right? So the big question is this: what are you going to do to squeeze every single minute of daylight out of each day? How are you going to further optimize every activity to be most productive? While we can’t provide you with an extra hour of daylight (at least not yet — though that has been submitted as an enhancement request and our engineers are generally up to any challenge), this month, the CollaborateMD team launched our biggest suite of optimization tools to-date: version 8.3. Consider it a little ray of light that shines on opportunities for greater efficiency, more streamlined processes, fewer rejected and denied claims, and improved net profit. And that’s not all we did this month! Check out this month’s most popular blog posts to see where we’ve been and what we’ve been up to. (Don’t be shy! Leave us a comment to tell us what’s on your mind.) Customer Service Week October had an entire week dedicated to our favorite people: our users! Our client services department hosted daily activities designed to boost our knowledge, skills, and abilities and help us better serve our customers’ needs… (more info) 8.3 Goes Live! With the release of our latest update, 8.3.0, we introduced review services with high-level claim scrubbing, custom labels and superbills, enhanced scheduler tools, appointment confirmation, and the CollaborateMD User Portal… (more info) CollaborateMD Supports March of Dimes! Taking the phrase "Go big or go home" to heart, we went big (as a gold sponsor for the Signature Chefs Auction) and we went home even bigger (by at least a couple belt notches)! Though we sampled food from the best chefs in town, our hearts went home bigger than our bellies as we learned about this great organization and what far-reaching effects it has on both a local and national level… (more info) Award of Excellence for Employee Value Workforce Central Florida recognized CollaborateMD and presented us with an award of excellence. We couldn’t be more proud or more appreciative of this honor, and we sure know who to thank for it… (more info) Helping you stay connected, The CollaborateMD Bloggers p.s. Blog subscribers often receive special offers first! If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can set yourself up for success here.
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October eBlurb

Thursday, October 1st, 2009









Stay connected with CollaborateMD!     Become a fan on facebook    Follow us on twitter     Link up on LinkedIn    Subscribe to our blog	Are You Subscribed to the CollaborateMD Blog?  It’s Officially Fall! We felt our first cool breeze in Orlando yesterday, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Our team has been busy traveling this month — we hit Phoenix and Las Vegas for some incredible conferences — so we were hoping to bring back some better weather; a much-needed reprieve from the sweltering heat of Florida. But as our weather is cooling down, our Referral Program is heating back up! We have re-launched this opportunity to give our customers the chance to start earning additional money simply for sharing their experiences with industry colleagues. Check out the hot details below, as well as some cool info on our recent travels and latest accolade for business growth. Referral Program Re-Launch In case you haven’t heard, we have awarded $20,000 to our customers, partners, and affiliates who have successfully referred a friend to CollaborateMD! Become one of the many money-makers and start earning money yourself… (more info) PAHCOM’s 21st Annual Conference Wrap-up! As a proud PAHCOM corporate member since March 2002, we remain dedicated to supporting the growth of this organization and its members’ success within the ever-changing healthcare industry.  To that end, we have a special offer for all PAHCOM members… (more info) CollaborateMD is a Golden 100 Winner! CollaborateMD not only made its local Business Journal list debut, but was also honored as a "Fast-Track Five" winner for being one of the five fastest-growing companies in central Florida. Check out what CollaborateMD Founder & CEO Douglas Kegler had to say about this past year… (more info) Conference Feedback: HBMA The Healthcare Billing and Management Association (HBMA) Annual Fall Conference was awesome. Hear from two CollaborateMD team members as they describe their experiences and share insights about this annual industry event… (more info) Helping you stay connected, Your CollaborateMD Team p.s. Blog subscribers often receive special offers first! If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can set yourself up for success here.
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September eBlurb

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009









Stay connected with CollaborateMD!     Become a fan on facebook    Follow us on twitter     Link up on LinkedIn    Subscribe to our blog	Are You Subscribed to the CollaborateMD Blog?  Remember last month when we promised an exciting announcement would be made in August? Well, we actually had not one, not two, but THREE surprises to share! We kicked off the month with our own internal awards, then received great recognition for our fast growth and employee-centric philosophy, and we wrapped up the month by giving back to our customers and our community. It really couldn’t have been a better month. Check out the highlights below, and please visit the blog to post a comment and share your thoughts on your favorite posts from August. CollaborateMD Q2 Awards Please join us in congratulating the two newest additions to the prestigious CollaborateMD Employee of the Quarter Hall of Fame: Karen Akeung, Accounting and Tanya Ortiz, Implementation Specialist… (more info) CollaborateMD: A Top 100 Company for Working Families! We are so thrilled to be recognized by the Orlando Sentinel as offering a great environment in which to work. In this post, we also talk about our second annual family picnic. Be sure to check out the pictures of CollaborateMD team members hard at work play!… (more info) Movin’ On Up…The Inc. 5000 List This year, we moved up 48 spots, landing at number 1,125! While we couldn’t be more excited about these achievements, we’re skipping the usual pomp and circumstance to cut right to the good stuff:  what’s it in for YOU?… (more info) Plant a(nother) Tree by Going ASP (again) We kicked off this program last March (2008) by donating the funds needed to purchase 3,000 trees (one for each active CollaborateMD user at the time) to American Forests.  This year, we are upping the ante!  3,500 trees will be purchased to help offset our estimated annual carbon dioxide output… (more info) Discounts Offered for HBMA & PAHCOM Members VP of Sales Eric Rosselot, our newest blog contributor, shares some information about two associations with whom we work closely to add more value for our customers and for the healthcare industry as a whole. Check out the special offer, valid through year’s end… (more info) Helping you stay connected, Your CollaborateMD Team p.s. Check out our Contributors page to learn more about our newest blog author!
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August eBlurb

Saturday, August 1st, 2009









Stay connected with CollaborateMD!     Become a fan on facebook    Follow us on twitter     Link up on LinkedIn    Subscribe to our blog	Are You Subscribed to the CollaborateMD Blog?  What a month! In the last 31 days, we launched the long-awaited beta 8.3 version of our software, landed our largest provider-count customer, and hosted the first CollaborateMD "Meet Our Partners" webinar series designed to formally introduce our customers to these value-added partners. Of course, there’s no sense in slowing down now! We plan to make an exciting announcement next month, so stay tuned. In the meantime, here are a few of our most popular blog articles from July. Is Your Practice Ready for the Red Flags Rule? Patrick Mann, CollaborateMD VP of Engineering, shares his knowledge about an important industry game-changer, and explains what CollaborateMD is doing to facilitate a smooth adoption of this new policy for every one of our customers… (more info) 8.3 Beta Is Here! Blog subscribers were amongst the first to be granted access to our beta release, but this month, we opened it up to all customers while still allowing them to maintain control over the install process for operational stability. Check out the new features that were designed to optimize workflow for net profit improvement… (more info) It’s Summer, It’s Social, and It’s All Good We were thrilled to participate in the first large-scale, online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of social media. The money raised went to The Humane Society, LIVESTRONG, Oxfam America, and WWF… (more info) Meet Our Partners As we mentioned above, we hosted 2 webinars each from co-presenters RelayHealth, Source Technologies, MediMobile, and GreenFlag Profit Recovery for a total of 8 webinars in this incredible series which brought customers and partners together to showcase the available tools and provide practical advice on how they could best be used to streamline customer operations… (more info) Helping you stay connected, Your CollaborateMD Team
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July eBlurb

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009









Stay connected with CollaborateMD! Subscribe to our Blog Follow us on Twitter Become our Fan on facebook	Are You Subscribed to the CollaborateMD Blog?  Whew! Is this summer sizzlin’ or is it just CollaborateMD?! Our entire team is already fired up for a great July, but before we close out the month, let’s take a look at what happened in June. X-Link Partnership Great news for both current and future CollaborateMD customers: Our recent partnership with X-Link will offer a two-way real-time data transfer system, allowing you to easily interface with multiple electronic medical record (EMR), lab, and mobile device solutions.…(more info) The Best Kept Recruiting Secret In the interest of helping our team to better meet your needs, we have created several new positions and job roles. Naturally, we searched high and low to find the right candidates. Care to guess where we found our newest team superstars? Right here in our office! (more info) 3 Cheers for…3M! How do we bring enhanced coding and compliance functionality to our suite of solutions? We introduce our customers to 3M medical necessity and compliance content! Get the full scoop on our agreement here…(more info) Happy Birthday, CollaborateMD This year, we are celebrating our tenth anniversary of providing hybrid SaaS practice management and medical billing software to physician offices and third-party billing services like yours…(more info) Helping you stay connected, Your CollaborateMD Team
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June eBlurb

Monday, June 1st, 2009









Stay connected with CollaborateMD! Subscribe to our Blog Follow us on Twitter Become our Fan on facebook	Are You Subscribed to the CollaborateMD Blog?  For the third edition of our CollaborateMD monthly eBlurb, we are recapping the major moments of May and giving you just a gist of June. This is a speedy snapshot of what’s going down, so as our VP of Sales often says, "Put on your seatbelt, folks!" May was a big month of CollaborateMD celebrations. We acknowledged stand-out team members for their hard work and dedication. We hosted a hugely successful medical billing and user conference here in Orlando, Florida. We even announced the beta version of our brand new 8.3 software release. June promises to be an exciting month as well, because we are offering complimentary webinars to give you a sneak peak of the enhancements and new features in 8.3. Check out the blurbs below to see which blog posts pulled the most attention this month!  CollaborateMD Celebrations The two newest additions to the prestigious Employee of the Quarter Hall of Fame are Lisa Ramirez (Sales Superstar) and Jorge Cuevas (Internal Technical Services). We are so proud of these two for their many contributions…(more info) Conference ‘09 Kicks Off CollaborateMD co-presented (in association with Medical Association of Billers) our first medical billing and user group event, and we are already looking forward to the next one! Get the "who, what, where, when and why" right here…(more info) Conference ‘09 Success! Not only did we announce the beta version of 8.3, but we included great industry content via some top industry expert presentations (check out both Day 1 and Day 2). Plus, we offered continuing education units from AAPC and MAB, and we even hosted a networking cocktail reception to bring customers and prospects together with the CollaborateMD team…(more info) Complimentary Webinars: 8.3 Release Since the 8.3 beta launch, we’ve been inundated with requests to take a sneak peak at the new release, so we’re offering complimentary webinars to highlight new and existing key features that will help you optimize clinical and financial workflows.…(more info) Helping you stay connected, Your CollaborateMD Team
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May eBlurb

Friday, May 1st, 2009









Stay connected with CollaborateMD! Subscribe to our Blog Follow us on Twitter Become our Fan on facebook	Are You Subscribed to the CollaborateMD Blog?  We hope you are ready for the second edition of the CollaborateMD monthly eBlurb–which offers an at-a-glance snapshot of what’s happening–because here it is!  We’ve compiled just a few of our most popular posts from the CollaborateMD blog that you don’t want to miss: CollaborateMD at HBMA CollaborateMD will be exhibiting at the upcoming Healthcare Billing and Management Association (HBMA) conference on May 6-8, 2009 in Boca Raton, Florida. Come visit us at booth #114…(more info) Conference ‘09 Time is running out to secure your spot at Conference ’09, presented by CollaborateMD and MAB. And in case you haven’t heard, we’ve been approved to offer 5.5 AAPC  CEUs in addition to the 13 MAB will offer. Plus, we don’t want to give away too many secrets, but big things are happening around here, and Conference ‘09 attendees will hear the news first! Check out details on our website, and stay up-to-date on urgent news by bookmarking the blog…(more info) CMD Travels Eric Rosselot, VP Sales, just returned from Denver, CO where he spent a couple of days with Accu-Med, a sponsor of the recent Easter Seals conference…(more info) We Make Earning Easy As you know, we DOUBLED our referral fee* a while back, so we want to make it as easy as possible for you to earn! We offer regular webinars on our medical billing software solution, so feel free to invite your referrals to join us at any time. Keep up-to-date by visiting the webinar blog posts…(more info) Special Offer for CollaborateMD Customers CollaborateMD is constantly striving to negotiate special offers for our customers, and we now proudly present a package from BC Advantage, the magazine that covers all the latest issues involving medical billing, coding, and the office environment…(more info) Helping you stay connected, Your CollaborateMD Team *Please see website for Referral Program terms & condition
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April eBlurb

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009









Stay connected with CollaborateMD! Subscribe to our Blog Follow us on Twitter Become our Fan on facebook	Are You Subscribed to the CollaborateMD Blog?  We know you’re busy, so to save you some time, we’re introducing the CollaborateMD monthly eBlurb which offers an at-a-glance snapshot of what’s happening!  We’ve compiled just a few of our most popular posts that you don’t want to miss: Conference ‘09 Today is the LAST DAY to register for Early Bird pricing at Conference ’09!  Take advantage of this special pricing and save hundreds for you and your colleagues.  Check out details on our website, and stay up-to-date on urgent news by bookmarking the blog…(more info) Referral Program Did you know that we’ve DOUBLED our referral fee?  Tell a friend about CollaborateMD, and be eligible to receive $400!*  It’s this easy…(more info) User Portal (Beta Version)  The CollaborateMD development team officially launched the beta version of our User Portal a couple weeks ago, and we gave our blog readers, facebook fans, twitter followers, and subscribers the opportunity to beta test it first…(more info) Support on Demand You asked; we answered!  Recent customer surveys indicated that the number one user request was for a live support representative to answer quick questions, rather than having users create their own case and wait for a response.  Introducing Support on Demand…(more info) Curing Medical Billing Blues CollaborateMD offers a few professional diversions to make your day a little more interesting while you learn, network, and enhance your skill set…(more info) Helping you stay connected, Your CollaborateMD Team *Please see website for Referral Program terms & condition
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