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…
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…
4 Increasingly Impressive Healthcare Automation Solutions
October 29, 2020
When the time comes for a business or industry to change, the process can often seem simple – Adopt the newest tech, optimize using that tech, and bring your customers better service and value. Oftentimes, this is the case; however, healthcare has always been rather hesitant in its adoption of new…
Medical Tablets are Essential as Patient Engagement Solutions
October 8, 2020
For the past few years, healthcare has been in the midst of a pivot towards patient empowerment. Value-based care, the abandonment of fee-for-service payment models, pushes to allow patients to access their own data, and many other recently advocated programs are all testaments to this pivot. Even…
Healthcare Recession: How Can Providers Help Their Patients and Themselves?
June 18, 2020
When we think of a recession, we often tend to exempt healthcare facilities from the conversation. Afterall, people are constantly in need of healing and care. Because of this, many tend to think of a “healthcare recession” as nothing more than fiction and believe the industry as a whole is…
Going Paperless in Healthcare: The Benefits and the Roadblocks
April 14, 2020
Patient data has become the cornerstone of healthcare in recent years. And while the term “data” may immediately conjure up images of computer databases and digital spreadsheets, for quite some time, the healthcare space actually preferred to use physical paper charting in order to record this…
What is SOAP Notes? How Standardized Notes Improve Healthcare
March 12, 2020
It’s been a general understanding for some time that the way doctor’s take notes needs to be improved. Doing so would not only enhance patient care, it would cut down on physician burnout as well. It was believed that EHRs were to be the solution to this need in the healthcare space. Unfortunately,…
Healthcare Chatbot Use Cases Blend Tech with Patient Empathy
March 5, 2020
Despite the sheer abundance of technology used in care facilities such as medical computers, AI, surgical robots, and more, healthcare is a very personal, social discipline. After all, doctors and nurses are often working with patients at their lowest and in the most need of a human touch. Many of…
Would Your Hospital Be Ready for Medicare For All?
February 13, 2020
Universal healthcare has always been a buzz-inducing topic, one that’s only increased in discussion as we begin to see plenty of candidates in 2020 promise some version of “Medicare For All.” And whether you believe it’s possible or that we’re simply not capable of providing it just yet, part of a…
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