How Concierge Medicine is Revolutionizing Patient Care
May 25, 2023
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…
Why Code Gray is Important for Every Hospital
April 18, 2023
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…
Three Ways Misdiagnosis Can Be Reduced by Technology
April 13, 2023
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…
Urgent Care vs Emergency Room – Urgent Care Explained
February 23, 2023
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…
3 Prominent Challenges to The Healthcare Industry in 2023
January 12, 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…
Top 5 Tech Jobs in Healthcare
November 3, 2022
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…
Securing Healthcare Information in a Digital World
June 4, 2021
While the rapid advancements in telehealth and digital healthcare that have been spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic promise to deliver more care to more people more affordably, they have also opened up new avenues for bad actors to access sensitive information like patient data. It’s no secret…
Medical Computers and the Hospital of the Future
May 27, 2021
With the advancements made in digital technology during the 2010s, we were already on the cusp of radical changes in medicine before COVID-19 hit. Now, things that just seemed like distant possibilities before have rapidly become inevitabilities. Telehealth was still a newfangled luxury at the end…
Are Current Healthcare Tech Trends Helping Patients at the Cost of Providers?
January 7, 2021
Healthcare has been testing the limits of the old adage “necessity is the mother of invention.” Treatment methods and the means by which we deliver these treatments are in constant flux as, during the start of the pandemic, we rushed to embrace telehealth and, even now, we expect to see further…
Patients Will Soon Gain Access to Clinical Notes: How That Impacts Your Note-Taking
November 12, 2020
We’ve discussed before the industry-wide push for patient empowerment and value-based care. And while this push is surely still happening, a recent delay in the federal “Open Notes” rule that would grant patients instant access to their clinical notes has slowed this push. This by no means…
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