Concierge Medicine – Is it Ethical or Elitist?
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), perhaps the most prestigious hospital in the United States, has just announced that it is joining the concierge medical universe. Concierge medicine offers patients Rolls Royce…
Is Your Medical Practice’s Website Optimized for Conversions?
Converting website visitors into new patients is critical for any medical practice. But many physicians’ websites are not optimized for the user’s convenience, which can push patients away before they…
How do you know that your personal health data is secure in the cloud?
Modern system architecture for medical devices is a triangle of Medical device, Mobile app and Cloud services (storing, processing and visualizing health data collected from the device). This creates the need for verifying…
Be Inspired: 3 Ways to Originate the Content Your Patients Want
There’s an insatiable need for consistent, quality healthcare content, and with a vast universe of topics at your disposal, part of the challenge is knowing where to start, and how to…
How Should a Doctor Respond to Online Reviews?
Review management for dentists (any doctor really) is a hot topic, as online reviews increasingly have the power to make or break your dental practice. According to MedScape, a recent…
Online Conversion Optimization Strategies for Healthcare Professionals
Life can be pretty stressful sometimes, which is why it's important to take care of yourself. Stress can make you feel depressed, anxious, increase your blood pressure, cause headaches, and…
Connecting Social Media and EHRs as a Research Tool
A group of patients were recently asked if they would be willing to link their social media accounts to their EHR for medical research and to aid healthcare development. According…
HIMSS16 Preview: Data helps reveal theme of this year’s show
It’s back to Las Vegas for HIMSS16 in a bit more than a week, which begs the question, what’s going to be theme of this year’s show? There’s typically very…
Forrester Predictions for Healthcare CIOs in 2016
CIOs Need to Embrace Changing Technologies, ExpectationsBy Bruce Leidal CIOs Need to Embrace Changing Technologies, ExpectationsBy Bruce LeidalThe New Year is upon us, which means it’s time to predict what’s to come…
Value-based care: can we get there with current tools?
By Robert M. Rowley, MD By Robert M. Rowley, MD We are at the threshold of a new way of paying for healthcare. We have paid for it traditionally with…
