Workflow and Your Practice
Posted: December 10, 2015
The bane of most medical practices—and businesses in general—is wasted time. While we may not expect everyone on the clock to be 100% efficient…
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Why Hospitals Shouldn’t Hire Their Own Back Office Staff
Posted: December 7, 2015
A hospital is much more than doctors and nurses. The support staff that works behind them—running numbers, ensuring the hospital is kept clean, collecting…
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Your Hospital’s Data Security
Posted: December 4, 2015
For nearly 20 years, HIPAA has existed to keep patient information safe. But as we move further and further into a technologically driven world, the simple rules of HIPAA may not be enough to keep patients’ medical records and data safe. In a 2014 survey, 90% of medical institutions reported a data breach, with some reporting as many as five separate data breaches.
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How Are Millennials Shaping Medicine?
Posted: December 2, 2015
Millennials—the often-maligned generation born between the early 1980s and early 2000s—are beginning to shape medicine. As they do, new technology is becoming increasingly prevalent…
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Technology & Changes in Self-Pay
Posted: November 25, 2015
There are huge strides being made every day in the ways hospitals and other medical facilities treat patients. But even outside of the operating…
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The ACA is Making an Impact
Posted: November 24, 2015
More and more Americans are signing up for health insurance plans through the enrollment marketplace. Through the second week of open enrollment, nearly 1.1…
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Evolving Leadership Roles in Hospitals
Posted: November 19, 2015
Leadership roles in hospitals are continuing to change at an alarming rate. With a large variety of new C-level positions springing up, it’s obvious…
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Digital Tools are Important for Patients Choosing Care Providers
Posted: November 10, 2015
A recent survey just released results that state patients are very interested in the digital health tools a doctor provides—enough so that they’ll choose…
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Patient Safety, Quality, and Satisfaction
Posted: November 6, 2015
As patient satisfaction continues to become more and more important in many hospitals and medical care facilities, there are many discussions focusing on the…
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What Does Alarm Fatigue Mean for Clinicians?
Posted: November 2, 2015
Alarm fatigue—the condition in which doctors and nurses begin to take less notice to various alarms within hospitals—has a lot of serious side effects…
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