From compensation hassles to compliance hurdles and staff burnout, independent practices have a myriad of obstacles to overcome. Now, with the start of the new year, physicians are finding themselves on the front line of evolving technology, policies, and patient expectations, while struggling with spending adequate time on patient care. Here are the top challenges Read more…
Best Way to Market Your Medical Practice for Free in 2019
There was a time when being a medical professional was a privilege. Those days are over. Now you need to be a business major to complement your profession. As a health IT consultant, I felt like writing tit takes a lot of money and effort which can be put to better use. Free medical marketing Read more…
How CancerLinQ is Improving Physician Performance
Every day providers encounter obstacles while planning effective treatments for oncology patients. Some of it is caused by the intractable nature of the disease, but a lack of access to data is a significant problem as well. Despite the fact that Big Data exists, the average practice doesn’t have access to it, adversely impacting patient Read more…
Balancing Behavioral Health in NC: ORH’s Call for Statewide Implementation
Behavioral Health is another term used to describe Mental Health by psychologists and psychiatrists. North Carolina follows the same set of laws for behavioral health as the rest of the states. Legal position in North Carolina: Mental Health “Parity” or Equal Coverage Laws These laws state that there should be no discrimination between the coverage Read more…
What Is the Role & Significance of Behavioral and Human Resource Experts?
Qualified and experienced Behavioral and Human Resource specialists play a critical role in human resource management for enhancing overall staff performance, boosting customer satisfaction, and ensuring streamlined delivery of improved healthcare service. In this context, according to WebMD, almost two-thirds of staff or employees believe that their organizations are lacking in efforts to foster equity, diversity, inclusion, Read more…
Optimizing Healthcare Practice Management: A Comprehensive Guide
Effective practice management is crucial for healthcare providers to deliver top-quality care while sustaining a successful business. This guide covers key areas of focus and proven strategies to optimize healthcare practice management in today’s complex regulatory and technological landscape. Why Does Healthcare Practice Management Need to be Optimized? Healthcare practices face increasing pressure to deliver Read more…
Is this the end for the repeal of Obamacare?
Former President Barack Obama’s legacy healthcare law has been under scrutiny for quite some time. Even though the Republicans are unable to offer a replacement, yet they decided to repeal the law anyway. However, they failed to achieve their objective because of a 49-51 vote, including three Republicans, against repealing. This means that Obamacare stays. Read more…
Physicians Get Tired Too: How to Get Rid of Physician Burnout
Exhaustion, mental stress, and emotional strain are part of practicing medicine. It becomes physician burnout, when practitioners feel emotionally and physically drained, even detached from their profession. This often leads to resentment towards their jobs and patients, as well as symptoms of depression. Physician burnout is highly common. Researchers found that 37.9% of physicians were Read more…
Reduce your risk of bad receivables
Over the last ten years, the cost of care has increasingly shifted to patients. This has been done through increasing co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles. Many of the ACA plans rely on patients to shoulder 40% of the cost of their care — even Medicare is now tracking at about 25% out-of-pocket cost to patients. Gone Read more…
BRCA 2.0: Another Failed Healthcare Bill by Republicans?
Relentless Republican efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act with the Better Care Reconciliation Act, seem wasted, as a result of their own party’s failure to unanimously agree on the proposed changes. In order to win a majority, the new healthcare bill can only afford to lose two Republican votes; as it stands, approximately ten Read more…