How Concierge Medicine is Revolutionizing Patient Care

As a patient, have you ever slammed your (landline) phone down in frustration when you learned that the next opening to see your doctor isn’t available for three months? Or from the doctor’s side, you’re ready to punch your medical computer because you’re being dinged for spending 20 minutes per…


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How to Choose Between Becoming a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Nurse practitioner (NP) vs physician assistant (PA)? This common question affects many aspiring medical professionals who don’t want to follow the paths of traditional registered nurses and doctors. For some, the decision is easy, like choosing a medical tablet for its ease of mobility versus an…


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How Amazon Pharmacy is Disrupting the Traditional Pharmacy Industry

Technology can be disruptive. In healthcare, the rise of electronic medical records (EMR) displayed on medical computers and medical tablets upended literal warehouses of paper files into the recycle bin. Now online retail mega-giant Amazon is also being called “disruptive” in the online…


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The Opioid Overdose Crisis: Can Technology Be the Solution?

Remember the War on Drugs declared back in 1971? It has never ended. Instead, new drugs have emerged and, with them, new forms of abuse. Technologies like medical computers, which already have been in use, continue to play major roles. Originally used to simply house medical data, both the public…


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How to Choose the Right EMR System for Your Practice

You’ve been tasked by your healthcare group to submit recommendations for its electronic medical records (EMR) platform. You know the right (or wrong) EMR systems will have an impact for years to come, affecting medical staff productivity and the choice of medical computer to display patient…


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How to Pick Right Isolation Cart for Your Healthcare Group

The healthcare industry is a unique setting. Devices and equipment most people consider mundane have to be customized to medical facilities’ strict requirements. Medical computers and tablets are used in hospitals, for example, not typical off-the-shelf brands found in most offices and at…


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What is Included in the Protected Health Information PHI?

Understanding the importance of PHI is crucial since it contributes to safeguarding the security and privacy of people’s health information as well as the privacy of any information about the medical services they get. Knowing the importance of PHI also guarantees that businesses handling…


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How Medical 3D Printing Will Change Patient Care

Many products today can be customized. Reasons can be personal, like selecting the color of a new car, or a reaction to the environment like medical computers. Medical clinics and, especially, hospitals are quite hostile to electronics, with sensitive medical devices and constant cleaning and…


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Why Code Gray is Important for Every Hospital

The healthcare industry has many unique needs and requirements. Common equipment like computers cannot be of the off-the-shelf variety. Instead, medical computers are used, having been built from the ground up to work with medical devices without trouble (medical grade). Dealing with conflict also…


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Three Ways Misdiagnosis Can Be Reduced by Technology

People make mistakes. It’s human nature, right? But a waiter entering the wrong customer’s order will just get it sent back. A provider, though, entering the wrong diagnosis of a patient’s condition into a medical computer can potentially have more severe, even fatal, results. So to reduce those…


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