If you want to skyrocket the visibility of your healthcare site, you need to come up with an effective content marketing strategy. Yes, you have heard right! Optimizing healthcare site content is important to increase its online visibility, drive conversions, and generate leads for your business. Understanding all the ins and outs of content optimization Read more…
Healthcare
COVID19 and the Need for Health Care Reform
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the face of healthcare globally, bringing into focus the need for significant healthcare reforms that will eventually promote universal access to affordable care. The U.S. healthcare industry has faced incredible challenges in the wake of this pandemic and is expected to come across even more. The way Read more…
The ABCs of Merit-Based Incentive Payment System
On April 15 of 2015, President Obama and the members of Congress passed the Medicare Access and Chip Authorization Act (MACRA), which included a permanent solution, instead of the repeated temporary fixes, for the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate methodology used to pay doctors. Under the new law, from 2015 till the end of 2018, physicians will Read more…
Why do you need to have CureMD’s Discrete Reportable Transcription service?
The Background When the HITECH Act became law in 2009, it aimed to stimulate the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) across the health care industry; the clinical data gathered from these systems would aid in disease prevention in the coming years. By 2013, above 80% of all office-based physicians had adopted some variant of Read more…
Losing a patient
Who heals the healers? When I was ten, my grandfather suffered his third and final heart-attack in as many decades. The attending physician performed a coronary artery bypass, and an angioplasty, but neither was enough. Two days later, he advised us to pull the plug. Several hours later, the ventilator was switched off and Grandpa Read more…
Research: EHRs improving clinical outcomes
According to a recent study published in the Health Services Research journal, Of all the physicians who used electronic health records in 2011, nearly 75% have derived clinical benefits from the electronic copies of patient medical histories. 3,000 physicians participated in the Physician Workflow Survey, by answering a questionnaire, to share their respective EHR experiences. These Read more…
ICD-10: Don’t be Scared, Be Prepared
On October 1, 2014, one of the biggest changes to ever hit the healthcare industry will take effect, when the old system of diagnostic coding, ICD-9 will be replaced by ICD-10.With the new coding system, the number of diagnostic codes will jump from the current 14,000 to 68,000, a fivefold increase. ICD-10 will enable physicians Read more…
EHRs Can Reduce the Cost of Care for Diabetes
A recent report found health IT to be one of the biggest contributors in successfully treating diabetes in western New York. The report found that over a three-year period, Electronic Health Records, care coordination and health information technology have been instrumental in reducing hospitalizations for diabetic patients, by 26%. Brief highlights: 50% of the physicians Read more…
Future holds promise for HIEs
The future for Health Information Exchanges is looking better for 2014 but there will be some challenges. Achieving success in this area will require knowledge and the technical flexibility to adapt. Broadly, there are three HIE groups based on technological and operational preparedness. The first group has deferred investments in technology foreseeing low enrollments. This Read more…
mHealth is Transforming Care Delivery
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh and Denmark’s health minister Astrid Krag, highlighted mobile healthcare as the way to improve outcomes in the future at the mHealth Summit. Yunus, the Grameen Movement pioneer, who opened up his native Bangladesh to the power of cellphones, said that smartphone has the power to transform people’s Read more…