Healthcare providers face a staggering number of administrative tasks, from managing HR and payroll to ensuring regulatory compliance. In fact, research shows that doctors spend over 15 hours a week on paperwork—time that could be dedicated to patient care. This administrative overload doesn’t just consume valuable resources; it directly impacts patient outcomes and staff satisfaction. Read more…
Technology & Services
Time to Automate your Denied Claims
As the transition to value-based care continues and healthcare providers experience an increase in claims denials, many are looking for new solutions for handling value-based care and fee-for-service claims. According to a recent HIMSS Analytics survey, roughly one-third of health care providers are still using a manual process to manage claim denials. “Given the complexities around Read more…
3 Benefits of Automated Payments for Specialty Practices
Collecting payments can be difficult and complex for specialty practices. Receiving timely payments, managing and coordinating all the different types of payments used by patients and communicating with patients effectively are just a few of the challenges specialty providers have to navigate. This leads to cash flow issues and inefficiency in the practice as a Read more…
3 Signs it’s Time to Rebrand Your Medical Practice
Branding is one of the most important aspects of any business. It is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal for influencing customer choices and decisions. By setting a high bar for quality you can make it so that consumers associate your very brand with high quality products or services. In healthcare, high Read more…
The Basics of Telehealth Contract Management
Telehealth has taken over the healthcare industry. Just a few short years ago when it was more of a novelty than actual healthcare service, such a statement might have been met with ridicule. That was, however, before the COVID-19 pandemic when a simple visit to the doctor’s office became a serious health risk. Providers were Read more…
4 Tips for Driving Sales of Health Related Products Online
While patient visits remain the main source of income for most medical practices, specialties such as dentistry, dermatology, and family medicine have access to an alternate revenue stream in the form of selling health-related products. Most practices that engage in this business will already have mastered in-office promotion, though online marketing remains a challenge. Leveraging Read more…
How Better Patient Education Can Improve the Management of Common Ear Conditions
Ear problems are so common that most people figure they can diagnose them at home. A sharp pain gets labeled an infection, a muffled, blocked feeling gets blamed on earwax, and ear drops are treated like water because they go “just in the ear.” Those everyday assumptions lead to trouble. Five out of six children Read more…
Medical Coding Changes in OBGYN: What Practices Need to Know
Maternity coding is moving away from reporting obstetric care as a single global package and toward a more detailed, phase-based approach. Recent CPT changes remove existing codes, introduce new codes, and revise others that affect how antepartum, labor, delivery, and postpartum services are captured. For practices providing or managing OBGYN medical billing services, the challenge Read more…
5 Ways QR Codes for Healthcare Improve Patient Engagement
Eighty percent of patients, with an average age of 76, preferred QR codes for healthcare information over printed pamphlets, according to a 2025 pilot study at Hereford County Hospital. QR codes address common engagement gaps with minimal infrastructure. A single printed QR code on a lobby poster or a prescription label allows patients to access Read more…
Automating Public Health Administration to Protect Funding and Prevent Staff Burnout
Public health agencies are absorbing more responsibility every year while budgets, headcounts, and time keep contracting. Workforce shortages, burnout, complex grant reporting, and outdated data workflows are pushing already understaffed teams past capacity. That is why the conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) in public health needs to shift. AI should not be positioned as a replacement for public health professionals or as Read more…