Social media has become the new platform where people from all walks of life are interacting and sharing their experiences. Be it the micro-blogging website, Twitter, the more interactive and engaging Facebook or even the video-sharing portal YouTube, there are millions of gigabytes of data being shared across some of the most famous social media Read more…
Health IT
What are HIT vendors doing for Healthcare advancement?
Healthcare IT vendors are driving innovation in the industry through constant research, updates and need-based solutions. Over the years, the industry has seen rapid shift from the otherwise manual and cumbersome process of managing a practice to having completely automated workflows where coordinated healthcare delivery is the main objective. An ever-growing industry, healthcare, has seen Read more…
New study finds physicians can improve workflow with HIT
A recent Johns Hopkins study has found that physicians can see more patients and reduce their workload if they started using Health Information Technology (HIT) based solutions. This study, which was conducted in collaboration with the Commonwealth Fund, underscores the impact of electronic health applications on physician services, and suggests that physician shortage might not Read more…
Does patient satisfaction mean anything to physicians?
The night was clement, the ambience tranquil, but the room bore a murky sheet of the dark hollow that did not aptly depict the feeble condition of the patient turning in bed. A voice, a sudden outcry of directed inquiry, broke the ominous silence that had engulfed the two people in that room, “Are you Read more…
How Secure is Your EMR?
Lauded for the effectiveness in capturing and the dissemination of data, EMRs have improved healthcare productivity with higher outputs as initial benefits to the overall industry. Having tremendous potential, EMR’s still have a long way to go when it comes to securing and protecting sensitive patient health information. There is an increasing concern for security Read more…
Can Healthcare and Social Media team up?
The healthcare industry has undoubtedly benefited a lot from patient-to-patient and patient-to-provider social media interactions. The ability of social media websites to effectively and transparently communicate information in real time presents a wide range of opportunities for the healthcare industry. Most of the healthcare providers use at least one of the social media websites to Read more…
How to Successfully Implement BYOD in the Healthcare Industry
The revolution in the healthcare industry is being fueled by a number of devices which include mobiles, smartphones, tablets, laptops and the like. The concept of bring-your-own-devices (BYOD), is a logical progression of the exponential increase in the number of privately owned smart devices. This approach allows physicians and their support staff to use their Read more…
Obamacare – Is it the right direction for Healthcare?
In the winter of 1854 when Lord Alfred Tennyson first wrote “The Charge of the Light Brigade” he described in his narrative an ensemble of people who follow their brigade as part of their patriotic duty; in fact, so immersed are these foot soldiers in their sense of civic obligation that they never question where Read more…
ACOs Will BE Accountable for Care Quality?
The carrot-and-stick approach in the Medicare program, the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), has become one of the most talked about new ideas in Obamacare. Providers are entitled to receive more payments if they keep their patients healthy. According to an estimate, nearly four million beneficiaries now belong to an ACO and along with the private Read more…
Healthcare IT: Does it need more encouragement from the government?
The Federal government seems increasingly concerned about the cost of healthcare, which has been on the rise for the last fifteen years, when the Medicare and Medicaid programs were launched. In the 1970s, the Nixon administration decided that the healthcare system was in a crisis and needed sweeping changes. It expanded the number of Health Read more…