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Top 10 medical universities in the world for post-graduation

If you are planning on studying in a foreign medical school or considering a post-graduation, a good starting point is to have a look at the top medical universities around the world. This article provides a list of world’s top 10 universities, based on the academic reputation, citations and overall reviews of alumni, from a post-graduation …

Is medical transcription a good career option for doctors?

With the advent of information technology in healthcare, the medical world is fast leaping into a technological revolution. A merger of medicine with IT has brought forward a new scientific realm – Healthcare IT – that has opened doors of opportunities for both healthcare as well as non-healthcare professionals. Medical transcription is one such avenue. …

What is cloud storage and how does it impact medical practice?

Everybody is talking about cloud technology. You’ve heard of ‘storing data on the cloud’ from smartphone makers (Apple’s iCloud being the prime example) to companies like Dropbox and Evernote that base their entire businesses on the cloud. Cloud storage is not just an emerging technology trend in the tech industry, it is also becoming popular …

6 tips for hiring a receptionist for your clinic

If you’re in need of a receptionist for your medical clinic or hospital, it’s more than just hiring someone who accepts your rate of pay. You want someone your patients and visitors are comfortable with because they will be handling and discussing sensitive & personal information. The receptionist is the first point of contact for your medical clinic, …

October 2014 Medical News Roundup

October saw its fair share of ground breaking research and outbreaks. Here is a bird’s eye view of the top 5 headlines in the medical world. 1. Ebola cases cross 10,000; experimental vaccine trials underway The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in the USA recently announced a travel-related case diagnosed at a hospital in Texas. Unfortunately, the patient passed …

Better Healthcare with Big Data

With the increased penetration of EMR and EHR software in the healthcare industry, there has been an explosion of patient data, including conditions, treatments, results and treatment outcomes. So we now have access to a lot of health data history, which if was analysed and processed could give us a greater understanding of the body’s mechanisms and …

How Important is Practice Management?

All the recent talk about clinic management makes us wonder how doctors of yesteryear used to run their practices and remain successful at it. It seems like they just they just came in and did their jobs, and everything else fell into place. But back then, there were lesser patients to attend to. And lesser …

How Mobile Devices are changing healthcare

The Mobile device is the embodiment of the future that we used to dream about. A device small enough to be carried anywhere, which also offers power and convenience. So its a understatement to say that it is a popular technology. Everybody’s got one, and they have it with them all the time. This makes mobile devices …