Nathan Bradshaw

  Artificial intelligence can only be as useful as the healthcare data it can access. An electronic health record may contain years of clinical notes, laboratory results, medications, imaging reports, and patient information, but poorly organized data can limit what AI systems can actually do with it.   For healthcare providers, becoming “AI-ready” should therefore Read more…

More providers are fielding patient questions about compounded therapies as demand climbs in weight management and hormone care. That interest has arrived alongside tighter regulatory scrutiny, most visible around compounded glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) products and the online prescribing models that offer them. That growth makes regulatory distinctions increasingly important. The 503A Model, Defined “Traditional compounding” Read more…

A practice that moves its diabetic panel onto continuous monitoring does not get a little more data. It gets roughly two thousand times more. Here is what that does to charting, review ownership, coding and specialty configuration, and how to set it up before the volume arrives. Take a primary care or endocrinology practice with Read more…

Accessibility in healthcare involves more than making a building physically accessible. Patients must also be able to understand information, communicate with providers, attend appointments and participate in decisions about their care. People with visual, hearing, mobility, language or cognitive difficulties may encounter barriers throughout this process. Healthcare professionals can face accessibility challenges as well, particularly Read more…

Healthcare has traditionally been built around appointments. A patient experiences a problem, visits a provider, receives treatment, and then returns home until the next checkup. While this approach works well for many short-term conditions, it creates challenges for people managing chronic illnesses, recovering from procedures, or requiring ongoing support. A large part of a patient’s Read more…

An unexpected patient death lands on a care team all at once. Clinical duties, administrative steps, regulatory obligations, and a family that deserves answers all compete for the same minutes. The chart sits at the center of it, and it has to do two things at once: preserve what the team knew at the time, Read more…

  Healthcare organizations can use EHR data to identify potentially eligible clinical trial participants, organize screening workflows, and make recruitment more targeted. Rather than asking research teams to manually review every patient record, an EHR-based approach can help narrow a large population to patients who may meet a study’s initial criteria. EHR recruitment can also Read more…

Think of a clinic compliance checklist as the operational backbone that keeps credentialing, billing, records, staff safety, and medical waste management audit-ready. Compliance failures rarely stay isolated; a missing signature, an expired credential, an incomplete training log, or sloppy waste segregation can snowball into a reimbursement, liability, or inspection problem fast. Regulators watch these domains Read more…

Patients are no longer choosing providers based only on proximity or referrals. Before scheduling an appointment, many people search online, compare practices, read reviews, visit websites and look for information about providers and services. The American Medical Association has reported that more than 60 percent of potential patients search for a physician or healthcare professional Read more…