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 …
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 …
Simple Ways to Achieve a Stress-Free Waiting Room
Visiting a medical physician can raise many apprehensions for patients. It is fairly common that the time spent by the patient while waiting to see the doctor itself hikes up their anxiety levels drastically. It is important for the physician to note that the patient probably spends only 10 minutes with them and a majority of the time is spent …
Best practices in Patient Scheduling
Original Article by Dr. Rachita Narsaria, MD. For patients, scheduling an appointment might be a click away, but for the people who manage and schedule the appointments it can be a mammoth task. No patient wants to waste time sitting in a waiting room and no doctor wants to be kept waiting or rushed while …
Costs Involved in Running a Nursing Home
Original Article by Dr. Rachita Narsaria, MD Having gone through 6 to 10 years of rigorous training at medical school including an internship programme, medical practitioners at some point of time have to take a tough step of setting up their own clinic or nursing home. Though working as an employed physician with someone senior seems easy, having your …