November 7th 2024
These are the real reasons consumers prefer telehealth, and they might surprise you.
November 1st 2024
Evidence shows that patients who feel they are not heard or respected by their doctors experience poorer outcomes.
October 14th 2024
Five tips to ensure better documentation and, along with it, better patient care and improved reimbursement.
September 17th 2024
Physicians, and employers, need to start taking financial toxicity seriously.
August 23rd 2024
Providing patients a positive experience, especially toward the end of the doctor-patient encounter, can pay dividends.
Health Conversations: Six ways to engage patients
Patients are much more likely to follow advice if they feel they are part of the decision-making process.
Let nurses focus on care, not tracking down data
Now is the time to support the creation of a statewide health information exchange network.
Telehealth proving to be game changer for FQHCs
For many Federally Qualified Health Centers telehealth services have been crucial to being able to continue to provide care during this time.
Three strategies for discussing plant-based nutrition with pediatric patients
These diets are gaining traction within the healthcare space.
Telemedicine: Working for patients and doctors
Survey suggests greater satisfaction, convenience.
Creating a personalized experience for patients
The pandemic has reinforced the idea that the best patient care can be achieved through communication, collaboration, and data integration
Data-driven patient engagement strategies in preventive care
How data enables health systems and clinics to better understand and communicate with their unique patient community.
Boost your practice with artificial intelligence
How AI strategies are enhancing healthcare across the globe.
Digital care management transforms the healthcare process
How digital tools connect physicians and patients for better care
Improve your patient experience with these five steps
Good clinical outcomes require strong patient participation. One way to engage your patients is to improve their experience at your practice.
Five reasons why doctors should become wound care specialists
Senior populations are growing rapidly and will need increased quality medical care.
“Waiting out” COVID-19 is not a solution for outpatient care
While the healthcare sector’s initial call to postpone elective care procedures was understandable at the time, it was never meant to develop into a long-term policy.
Engaging Adolescent Patients, Part 1: Key communication strategies
Engaging adolescents in their care and during the patient visit can be especially challenging. Here are some tips.
Engaging Adolescent Patients, Part 2: Questions to ask
Three questions to explore the lifestyles of teenagers
Making the switch from physical to hybrid care
To successfully transition to hybrid care, physician practices need a cohesive telehealth strategy.
Incorporating modern technology benefits into Medicare Advantage plans
Proactive virtual care is easing the clinical burden of Emergency Department reactive services.
Bedside manner remains vitally important during the pandemic
Despite an emphasis on virtual care in the past year, bedside manner is still important for physicians during the pandemic.
Advice for establishing a virtual waiting room at a physician practice
Advice for implementing a virtual waiting room
Improve senior patient communication with technology
Virtual care technology can ultimately help improve outcomes in your senior patient population.
Making your virtual space as comforting as your existing, physical waiting room
Virtual spaces may provide greater flexibilities, but does this mean that patients will feel as comfortable when at your practice?
Staffing required for a virtual waiting room
Can your staff can handle the work?
2021 Remote Patient Monitoring Changes: 10 key takeaways for practices
Providers will benefit most from well-tailored RPM programs designed within the current requirements that also have the means to be flexible as requirements inevitably shift.
Integrating a virtual waiting room into your existing patient management
Virtual waiting rooms offer many new opportunities
Enhance cardiac patient monitoring while streamlining practice workflow
Fortunately, practices are acknowledging that introducing technology alternatives is easier than anticipated and actually streamlines the process and enhances patient outcomes.
How the pandemic has affected the waiting room experience for physician practices
Some of these changes and new considerations.
Four essential components for your vaccine rollout strategy
Create a plan to drive patient access, action, and adherence.
This world is on FHIR
What the new HL7 interoperability standards means for providers.
How membership medicine fits into a post-COVID medical practice
The current health crisis may slowly diminish in the coming months, but the need for convenient telemedicine and strong, stable medical practices that can put patients first will not.
2021 E&M Changes: Avoiding pitfalls with the right technology-enabled strategy
Extensive revisions aim to prioritize patient care information, resource-based reimbursement, and lessening the need for audits.
Physician practice value-based healthcare hesitations
Scott LaRoque, CEO of MPOWER Health, discusses why some physician practices are hesitant to adopt value-based care models and how practices can get started with them.