If you’re in need of a receptionist for your medical clinic or hospital, it’s more than just hiring someone who accepts your rate of pay. You want someone your patients and visitors are comfortable with because they will be handling and discussing sensitive & personal information. The receptionist is the first point of contact for your medical clinic, …
October 2014 Medical News Roundup
October saw its fair share of ground breaking research and outbreaks. Here is a bird’s eye view of the top 5 headlines in the medical world. 1. Ebola cases cross 10,000; experimental vaccine trials underway The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in the USA recently announced a travel-related case diagnosed at a hospital in Texas. Unfortunately, the patient passed …
6 Simple Tips to Ensure Great Patient Satisfaction at your Clinic or Hospital
Healthcare is evolving and how. Gone are the days of patients choosing their doctors based on hearsay or by simply asking around. Patients are increasingly researching doctors online and reading reviews on clinics & hospitals left by other patients. (Read more: Is an online presence for doctors really important?) In this era of consumerism, healthcare …
Better Healthcare with Big Data
With the increased penetration of EMR and EHR software in the healthcare industry, there has been an explosion of patient data, including conditions, treatments, results and treatment outcomes. So we now have access to a lot of health data history, which if was analysed and processed could give us a greater understanding of the body’s mechanisms and …
How Important is Practice Management?
All the recent talk about clinic management makes us wonder how doctors of yesteryear used to run their practices and remain successful at it. It seems like they just they just came in and did their jobs, and everything else fell into place. But back then, there were lesser patients to attend to. And lesser …
How Mobile Devices are changing healthcare
The Mobile device is the embodiment of the future that we used to dream about. A device small enough to be carried anywhere, which also offers power and convenience. So its a understatement to say that it is a popular technology. Everybody’s got one, and they have it with them all the time. This makes mobile devices …
Stay Productive & Calm with a Busy Schedule: Doctor Edition
It’s common knowledge that doctors have demanding schedules. Attending to each and every patient with the same level of attention and focus can be very stressful. And high stress levels have been known to result in decreased productivity and low moods. This leads to longer hours, leaving time for little else. In this post we share some tips …
How big data is changing health care
With the increased penetration of EMR and EHR softwares in the Healthcare industry, there has been an explosion of patient data regarding their conditions, treatments, results and treatment outcomes. We now have access to a lot of health data history, which if analysed and processed, give us a greater understanding of the body’s mechanisms. Having a …
Free Online Marketing for Medical Practices – The Complete Guide
You already know the importance of an online presence for doctors, so the next obvious thing for us is to tell you how you can leverage the internet to market your medical practice, without opening your wallet. Update: Download this guide! Free E-book: How to market your medical practice online We can segregate online activities and media …
Choosing an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software for your practice – Part 1
Electronic Medical Records have long been regarded as the gold standard of maintaining patient health profiles. EMRs began as an American concept championed by health insurance companies and by extension, the government. But over time it was seen that EMR systems offered several tangible benefits that went beyond insurance needs. EMR systems are known to …