Inventory stands out as one of the most expensive and unwieldy asset in most healthcare organizations. You should ensure proper management of inventory in order to reduce unnecessary healthcare costs while at the same time improving the efficiency of the supply chain. Such a supply chain constitutes consumers and businesses that provide healthcare insurances to employees in …
5 Mistakes Your Practice Should Avoid – Staff Management
Effective staff management plays a key role in enhancing growth and productivity of any medical practice. Proper staff management ensures proper mitigation of financial and legal risks as well as dissemination of qualitative health services. Here are 5 frequently encountered mistakes in a medical practice, with regards to management of staff: 1. Inadequate staff training Staff …
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 …
5 Drugs with High Risk of Complications
Every medicine ingested for treatment of a particular disease comes with side effects. These side effects may be negligible and not quantifiable, to mild or moderate but can also turn serious. Be it an over the counter medication or a prescribed one, both can have side effects. Even after the drug is approved by the FDA, …
Best Practices in Medical Vendor Management
Every business operates with a basic aim i.e. to make profit. For profitable business, steady and dependable vendors are required. The vendors are the closest point of contact to the consumers. A well managed vendor relationship will ensure maximal consumer satisfaction. They form the architecture of sales, once the product is set to be released in the market. Let’s consider …
The Beginner’s Guide to Setting up a Wellness Center
A wellness center is an establishment where healing options are available for both the mind and body. They offer conventional as well as alternative therapies. The most popular alternative therapies are naturopathy, skin care, Ayurvedic massage, spa, gym, fitness center, magneto therapy, colour therapy, acupuncture and other holistic modalities. There is a growing trend for …
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 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 …