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 …
What does Apple Healthkit and Google Fit do?
There has been a steady rise of wearable devices in the recent past. Earlier, physical activity trackers were restricted to pedometers, which tracked basic fitness activity like distance covered or calories burned. As consumer interest developed and people began taking a greater interest in quantifying their fitness activities, advanced devices started popping up in the market. …
Dr. MBA: B-School Lessons for Doctors
Business skills are at the core of any commercial establishment, and the medical practice of today is just like any other small business. To be at par with peers and remain competitive in this saturated market, doctors can no longer rely on purely medical skills; they must learn management and business skills as well. Moreover, …
The New Patient Journey: How Patients Discover You
If you are reading this article on your desktop, laptop or your mobile device you would have already heard about the new patient journey. You would have already experienced patients coming to you from new channels, or might have heard anecdotes about other doctors and how the internet helped bring new patients into their practices. Earlier, …
5 Billing Mistakes A Medical Practice Should Avoid
The billing department is an important part of a medical practice. Running a successful medical practice requires a sound and efficient revenue system. Billing practices that are not optimized tend have a domino effect, that extends throughout the office. Needless to say that eliminating billing mistakes is critical for a practice to thrive. Here are the …
Best Practices for Patient Management
Patient satisfaction is an important priority for physicians. The success of patient management depends not only on the physician’s diligence, but also on the patient’s cooperation. It is also governed by external factors such as disease statistics, type of illness, the population in a given area and disease prevalence etc. Simply put, care management can be defined …
Monitoring Vital Signs Made Simple
There might be many parameters for Doctors to ascertain the state of a patient’s health, but none of them paint such an accurate picture of as Vital Signs do. It helps doctors get key insights into their patients ailments by looking at the basic indicators of general health – their temperature, respiratory rate, blood pressure, pulse and …
Leave Your Reference Book at Home: Top 5 Android Apps For Doctors
Being a doctor is not only a physically demanding job, but also mentally draining at the end of the day. Day in and out, life saving decisions need to be made. This makes it of utmost importance that physicians stay abreast of new updates in the field of medicine. Dealing with patients with various complaints is …
Medical gadget of the week: The Oto Pro smartphone otoscope
In the US, ear infections are one of the most common reasons for children in visiting paediatricians. In fact, as high as 90% of children tend to have ear infections before they turn seven. Not just children, even adults face ear pain and ear-related disorders, and that number is as high as 20 million doctor visits every …