Patient experience refers to the sum of all interactions that play a significant role in influencing patients’ perceptions across the continuum of care. A healthcare organization’s culture is the chief facilitator of a patient experience. It is cardinal that you put the patient and their experience at the heart of any quality improvement that you …
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5 simple ways to promote patient lifestyle management
Lifestyle management in patients has become extremely important today owing to the rise of lifestyle diseases like diabetes. (See 3 big diabetes updates of 2014) Doctors need to promote lifestyle management in patients with diabetes, asthma, heart failure, arthritis, hypertension and many other chronic conditions. However, implementation of essential lifestyle modifications in a patient’s routine is one the biggest challenges …
Best Health Apps For Patients
Many medical and health apps exist in Google Play Store and the Apple App Store, and navigating them is very time consuming. We’ve simplified the search for the best Android health app for patients in this article. Do let us know if we’ve missed your favourite health apps! The technology and mobile revolution has greatly influenced the …
Career Options for Medical Coding
Introduction to Medical Coding Medical coders are people who work in the billing or back office of medical practices or hospitals. They play a significant role in completing, reviewing, as well as processing medical claims. This, in turn, assist hospitals and physician practices get reimbursed from insurance companies and government healthcare programs for facilities and services they …
Setting Up a Hospital in India
Setting up a medical hospital in India is not as easy as it sounds, but we are here to give you some pointers to consider before taking the plunge. Health care is the basic need and right of every citizen of our country. Hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, medical camps etc form the platform for this …
Alternative Careers for Medical Graduates
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 …
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 …
5 Most-Awaited American Medical Events of 2015
Medical conferences and meets are eagerly awaited by all medical professionals. It is the most effective and reliable way to catch up with latest inventions and breakthrough in different fields of medicine. An attendee gets a chance to talk personally with the leading practitioners of that field. Apart from this, the inspiration one draws from …
3 Big Updates for Diabetes Treatment in 2014
Every year the American Diabetes Association (ADA) releases its updated version that contains the revision of scientific literature and clinical recommendations pertaining to diabetes mellitus (DM), its prognosis, treatment, and management of co-morbidities and complications. In 2014, there have been several important updates based upon the research and conclusions of several systematic- and meta-analyses and clinical trials. The …
Is Cloud Storage Safe? What HealthCare Providers Need to Know
Given the fact that healthcare data is doubling every year, medical institutions face a new challenge in terms of secure storage space. It is becoming increasingly difficult to manage rapidly growing data on traditional informational technology (IT) systems. The need to store such a huge amount of sensitive data is gradually pushing the healthcare industry to look for …