Promising alternatives to clinical practice The medical profession will always rank high on the most-admired professions across all sections of society. A student needs to decide on becoming a physician by the age of 17-18 yrs in most regions of Europe, Asia and Australia1. Once a student opts for medicine, under-graduation is followed by post graduation and often further …
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Medical video of the month: The Windkessel Effect
The Windkessel Effect refers to the waveform shape found in pulsing arterial blood vessels. Translated from German (wind = air, kessel = chamber), this concept was developed by the German physiologist Otto Frank – you may know him from the famous Frank-Starling law of the heart. This effect occurs due to the interaction between stroke …
Monthly Round-Up: December 2014
December is drawing to a close, and it’s time for our monthly roundup. We’ve been talking about a a wide variety of topics this month that we hope you found interesting and educational. In case you’ve missed out on some them, here’s a list of our most interesting articles. Cost of Running a Dental Clinic in India …
The new patient journey: How patients book appointments
As a part of our New Patient Journey series, we talked about how patients find their doctors. Now we’d like to expand on that by talking about how they take the next step – booking appointments. The way patients find their doctors has improved, and so has the way they book appointments. Earlier, patients had search for a clinic’s …
Medical App of the Month: Figure 1
Figure 1 is an app that functions as a community for medical professionals to safely share their clinical cases and discuss treatment options. It is a crowdsourced medical image library that healthcare professionals can use to share, rank, and discuss images. It’s popularly referred to as the “Instagram for Doctors”. What does it do? The app uses …
Best Practices for Billing Patients
Billing and collections are a routine part of all medical setups. They are fairly straightforward and cumulatively done on a daily basis at all institutions. However, it can be a daunting task if not approached in an organised and systematic manner. Most physicians have a basic understanding of the procedure of billing, insurance claims and collections. Nowadays, billing a …
5 Mistakes Your Practice Should Avoid – Managing Finances
Being a physician doesn’t immunise one from financial complications. By the time a physician opens his own practice, he already has to deal with the debts for his medical studies. They remain preoccupied with their demanding studies during their educational and training tenure and therefore are sketchy managers of their finances. Therefore, these disadvantages makes …
5 Customer Service Tips for Medical Practices
In this new era, irrespective of the business, customer service plays an exceptionally important role on the path to success. Because of increasing options, if the client is not satisfied, he will not think twice before going to another service provider. The same holds true for the practice of a physician; if the patient is not satisfied by …
Android or iPhone: What should a doctor choose?
No matter how intimidating the operating system of iPhone may appear to software engineers, it is still the best pal of doctors. It has a wide variety of medical applications and books for a quick consultation. One of the medical news services, Bulletin Healthcare, queried their half a million subscribers and reported that the trend was more inclined towards iPhone …
E-Prescriptions and Their Advantages
As medicine gets more tech savvy, doctors are finding themselves better equipped with technologies that are replacing something as basic but important in medicine as writing out a prescription. An e-prescription is a computer generated, transmitted and filed out medical prescription. Its main aim is to reduce paper prescriptions, and the risk of error associated …