INTRODUCTION: Medical science is an ever-evolving subject. Millions of dollars are poured into research each year to further our knowledge into human medicine and find new cures. Here is a list of the 10 most cited clinical studies of 2014. 1. Childhood obesity: public-health crisis, common sense cure Historically, a fat child meant a healthy …
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Best practices in managing appointments
A structured appointment scheduling system can go a long way towards improving revenue and increasing patient satisfaction in a medical practice. Patient scheduling is an integral part of daily work for a health care professional either in family practice or at specialist clinic, in a physician’s office or at a hospital. Scheduling can be managed well online with …
What Google, Apple and Facebook are doing for Healthcare
The healthcare industry is a booming sector with many players getting involved each year with new ideas. With the exploitation of technology at its height, the Silicon Valley technology giants Google, Apple and Facebook are not far behind in the race of getting their share of this pie. It is really simple. Do you own a …
Effective Ways Of Reducing Treatment Costs
India is a developing country, with the second largest world population. Ironically, a majority of people live under the poverty line, with meager daily wages. Hence, medical treatment is the luxury of the rich as it is unaffordable by the poor. Often people lose their loved ones due to expensive medical care. Against such a …
Why Should Doctors Use A Medical Billing Software?
Modern healthcare is a complex system that integrates different services and activities not necessarily entirely pertaining to medical and by all means, not free of charge. Health costs money, so regarding medical side, practices must organize their finances and management. In this article Billing Software is Time Saving The medical billing process is an intricate interplay between …
Best Practices in Relocating Your Medical Practice
If you are a practicing physician and have your own medical practice, you are well aware of the difficulties faced in starting a new medical practice. It requires tremendous patience before patients start flowing in. Relocating your medical practice can be an equally daunting task especially if one is planning to relocate to a completely …
Setting up a super specialty hospital in India
A superspecialty hospital is a place where each one of us has been to, even before qualifying as a doctor; we were received in this place as tiny ones. Doesn’t this make a hospital the most important requirement in a human population? A super specialty hospital focuses on the treatment of specific illnesses. The quality …
Ebola Misdiagnosis in USA – Was it the EMR’s Fault?
Misdiagnosis is one of the costliest mistakes committed even by the best of physicians in routine practice. Most of these are preventable, while some are inevitable, making it important to demarcate and be alert to warning signs. In spite of the tremendous change in medical practice witnessed over the past decade, with technology being incorporated into routine medical …
What Every Doctor Should Know About the CHARISMA Trial
Clopidogrel for High Atherothrombotic Risk, Ischemic Stabilisation, Management and Avoidance (CHARISMA) is based on the already established fact that the dual antiplatelet therapy (aspirin plus clopidogrel) is superior and the benefits outweigh the side-effects when considered in patients with ST elevation MI, Non-ST elevation MI or in revascularization with PCI. However, the dual antiplatelet therapy has …
Medical Software for Doctors: Why Is It Necessary?
Medical software, nowadays, are inseparable from any health care system. It allows doctors to capture patient demographics, maintain lists of insurance payers, generate reports, perform billing tasks, as well as schedule appointments. In this article Importance of medical software for doctors Capturing of patients’ demographic often begins whenever a new patient fills out a patient …