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…
Practice Management
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction in Medical Practice Staff
In 2011, an attending at a hospital ordered a prescription for a PEG tube replacement. Just as the resident was about to enter the prescription into the Computerized Physician Order Entry System (CPOE), she received a text message from a friend. On day four, the patient suddenly required an emergency open-heart surgery. The resident had Read more…
3 Simple Tips to Improve Your Medical Bookkeeping
Any healthcare professional will likely spend most of their time caring for patients, which can lead to neglect in certain other areas. One of these areas that are often neglected is bookkeeping. Most physicians would prefer to focus on patient care, rather than the tedious tasks that come afterward. However, a medical practice is also Read more…
The Five Best Tax Strategies for Your Practice
Medical practices often generate large amounts of income, which in turn lead to hefty tax obligations. While these obligations are unavoidable for the most part, there are a few legal strategies that can help reduce them. These strategies are not reserved only for large healthcare conglomerates, the tax code is available to all practices, regardless Read more…
8 Ways To Improve Patient Satisfaction in 2022
Patient satisfaction scores can influence several aspects of your medical practice, from reimbursements to efficiency and profitability. Practices of all sizes and specialties should devote ample time and effort towards enhancing and maintaining patient satisfaction levels to reap the benefits of patient retention. Patients are increasingly comparing their healthcare experiences with those of others and Read more…
Three Things That Can Optimize Your Practice Workflows
Optimize your practice’s workflows with EHR integration, comprehensive patient portals, and Artificial Intelligence. Given the distinct nature of every medical practice, their systems must be built around their specific needs and requirements. Every practice requires specialized tools designed precisely for their specialty. Optimization of the workflows then becomes the priority to help improve practice efficiency Read more…
Digitize Administrative Tasks to Reduce Staff Burden
Physicians embrace the healthcare profession to take care of the patients and not to focus on administrative tasks. Yet these tasks continue to dominate a significant portion of their time and effort, leading to frustration and burnout. With the proliferation of digital technologies, almost all aspects of everyday life have been digitized, and for all Read more…
Improving Medication Adherence with Technology
With the right communication and education tools and leveraging efficient technologies care team members can help patients overcome barriers obstructing medication adherence. No drugs can work wonders if the patients don’t take them. Medication adherence has been a daunting challenge for clinicians for decades and remains unresolved to date. The good news, however, is that Read more…
3 Important KPIs for Your Practice in 2022
With the healthcare industry continuing to shift towards payment models which place a greater burden of payment on patients rather than payers, keeping a firm grasp on your revenue cycle is more important now than ever for providers. All healthcare organizations have been quick to understand the value of data; however, raw data on its Read more…
6 Strategies to Optimize Your Waiting Room Experience
What’s the worst part of going to the doctor? Waiting. Sitting in an uncomfortable chair in a boring, sterile room, next to someone watching a loud video on their smartphone for an hour before you get to your appointment is not the best experience. You can’t help but wonder: how many of the other people Read more…