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Written by Pam Baker
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Friday, 14 March 2008 06:48 |
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Accuracy and efficiency, long the cornerstones of delivering quality healthcare, are even more important today when the faltering economy squeezes budgets on one end and insurance providers push for costs cuts and limits on the other. One way to satisfy all these pressures and increase quality of care for the patient is to use electronic data management software to expedite, simplify and speed-check patient information on the fly. It’s particularly useful if it allows providers to see patient data from outside their own practice or institution.
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Written by Pam Baker
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Friday, 06 June 2008 09:41 |
 When it comes to practice management systems, the “writing is on the wall” says Dr. Thomas Handler, analyst at Gartner. “Every doctor is headed in that direction and it will eventually become the standard of care,” he predicts.
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Written by Pam Baker
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Monday, 21 January 2008 04:06 |
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The demands on healthcare organizations continue to mount,
adding to the struggle to balance quality of care, regulatory compliance, and
the bottom line. As a result, communication requirements are becoming
increasingly complex in order to aid employee productivity and collaboration,
and still keep overall communication costs and complexity low.
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Written by Jeff Merron
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Friday, 05 October 2007 10:04 |
"Money is a headache, and money is the cure." -Everett Mámor
If Dr. Doolittle had put his efforts into designing a medical billing environment, no doubt he would have created one not unlike the one medical practices have to deal with today, a pushmi-pullyu with a labyrinth of innards that are tangled, confusing, often pulling in opposite directions, and, to top it off, ever-changing. In the not-so-distant past, billing and receiving payments from patients and insurance companies was relatively simple, and many individual and small group practices dealt with it that way. "My doctor gave me six months to live," Walter Matthau once quipped, "but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more." So it went.
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Written by Jeff Merron
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Monday, 22 October 2007 05:46 |
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"What you see is what you get!" For lots of Americans in the early 1970s, it would have been unusual to go through a day without hearing that Flip Wilson catchphrase. It was so good -- and so useful in so many ways -- that it was later used by the PC industry to describe word processors that had a screen display closely matching what would appear on a printed page. But a PACS isn't a PC, so it's unlikely that a pithy, but equally useful, catchphrase used by one consultant when discussing PACS purchasing decisions will become as widespread.
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