The Progressive Physician - Management Features


Product Category Analysis Security on Connected Systems E-mail
Written by Pam Baker   
Wednesday, 07 January 2009 18:00
ImageClinical information systems have become more connected to remote services while privacy regulations continue to be a cause for concern. “Protecting confidential data online is of increasing importance to organizations across a broad range of sectors. With HIPAA and other patient privacy measures in place, healthcare organizations are under increasing scrutiny to safeguard private health information,” said Sanjay Mehta, senior vice president for Breach Security.
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2008 - The Year in Review E-mail
Written by Pam Baker   
Saturday, 06 December 2008 08:50
Image2008 accelerated “doctor-squeeze” – a relatively recent phenomenon that financially and emotionally pressures doctors between government and insurance mandates, and patient expectations. Costly technology purchases could no longer be postponed by doctors in 2008, even while an ugly recession eroded patients’ ability to pay. And, insurance restrictions on care delivery further zapped physician morale.
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Product Category Analysis: Imaging Storage/Retrieval and Viewing Systems E-mail
Written by Pam Baker   
Thursday, 16 October 2008 05:05
ImagePerhaps no other field has been as grossly over-burdened by technology as the physician practice. “A big challenge for non-institutional providers is funding; they are struggling to fund their own IT investments like e-prescribing, and EMR systems and are getting more pressure from Washington all the time to invest in these technologies,” says Carl Doty, principal analyst at Forrester Research.
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Product Category Analysis: Billing Systems E-mail
Written by Jeff Merron   
Sunday, 16 November 2008 18:00
ImageWhen MedTech Journal last looked into billing systems, a little more than a year ago, practitioners had several major concerns -- most notably, the impending (or, in some offices, recent) transition from paper-based to electronic medical records (EMR), and a steady slide in reimbursements which, noted Coker Group COO Keith Solinsky, had "been steadily declining over the last three to five years." Obviously, not much can (or has) changed since October 2007, and related trends in billing have continued as well.
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To PDA or Not To PDA E-mail
Written by Alice LaPlante   
Wednesday, 19 September 2007 07:30

Which portable device is right? Only you can say for sure.

Over the past 24 months, physicians' offices have begun investing heavily in automated point-of-care (POC) systems that boost the quality of patient care at the same time that they improve doctor productivity. Although primarily designed to operate on stationary desktop PCs and workstations, these applications increasingly include modules that support portable handheld devices like personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones as well as tablet computers—no surprise, given the rising popularity of these relatively new categories of hardware among healthcare professionals.

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