Four Ways Virtual Patient Sitters Help Hospitals Manage At-Risk Patients

Patient sitters are a relatively unknown yet important part of healthcare, watching at-risk patients so staff members like nurses to focus on more pressing medical duties. Due to limited budgets and labor shortage of sitters, hospitals and other medical facilities are turning to technological…


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Navigating the Veterans Affairs System: Healthcare Benefits for the VA

Do you know what the largest healthcare system is in the US? If you guessed it’s the military, you’re correct. The Veterans Administration oversees the well-being of nine million veterans and their families each year through its Veterans Health Administration. Learn about the Cabinet-level…


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Urgent Care vs Emergency Room – Urgent Care Explained

You’ve been tasked by your healthcare IT director to properly equip an Urgent Care Center.  You freeze up, since you know nothing about the UC. Maybe you have the vaguest memory having visited one as a kid when you had a cold. Or was that the Emergency Room? What’s the difference, anyway? This is a…


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What are Retail Clinics and Are They the New Healthcare Model?

Are you ready to add “doctor” to this week’s grocery list? While the option is not available (yet), going to the supermarket or retail outlet to treat non-emergency medical issues is a reality. Retail health clinics have joined eye clinics and dental offices in retail locations.  What, exactly, are…


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5 Medical Software to Shape Healthcare’s Future

At first glance, modern healthcare looks like a chaotic mess. Think about all those hospitals and medical centers, providers, medical staff, pharmaceutical and research companies, and even patients themselves, vying to fulfill their part in treating the ill and sick. What are the stats of the…


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3 Prominent Challenges to The Healthcare Industry in 2023

Ready to go to the local mall for your physical? Or see your pharmacist about your watch app’s alerts about your cholesterol level? These are a couple of potential scenarios greeting the healthcare industry in 2023. Learn about them and more, as well as the role hospital computer systems can play…


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Three Major Dentistry Challenges and Possible Tech Solutions

Over five thousand years have passed since the first recorded dentist looked into the mouth of a patient. His modern counterparts deal with even greater challenges from increased competition to government regulation.  Thankfully, new tools and systems are available. Read on to learn about this…


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Top 5 Tech Jobs in Healthcare

Healthcare has become one of the basic human rights we adorn in our lives but that wasn’t always the case. With healthcare being privatized in countless places, there are options for being treated for necessities as well as accessing elevated treatments using new technologies, such as medical grade…


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4 Things to Consider When Selecting a Computer for EHR

Electronic health records (EHR), also known as electronic medical records (EMR), have had a major impact on the healthcare system. You and your healthcare IT department (HIT) know how it allows your providers to create, update, and share patients’ health records quickly. This helps immensely…


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10 Reasons to Become a Nurse

You can’t miss nurses. In fact, you’ve probably encountered them at least once in your life from the school nurse putting a band aid on your cut to waking you up after surgery to check your vitals to input into the hospital computer systems. Along with doctors, registered nurses (RNs) are an…


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