Best Practices for Managing Online Yelp Reviews for Your Physician Practice
There was a time when a physician's reputation relied heavily on word of mouth and patients referrals. However, as time progresses, patients are becoming more connected through use of the…
Financial Assistance for Clinical Trials
(This post was originally published in the Patients Helping Patients Blog of the Patient Empowerment Network)Sometimes hospitals, research centers and pharmaceutical companies will cover the cost of treatment in a…
Social Media is Changing Healthcare
Continuing Series: An excerpt from the forthcoming book by Mark Tager, MD, and Stewart Gandolf, MBA, for private practice physicians and healthcare administrators about reaching, recruiting and retaining private pay and…
“Lifesaving”: I don’t think it means what you think it means
Transparency, I think that is what pissed me off so much. Or rather the opaqueness. Got me to post again, though, right? Well, don't get used to it. The message…
A Commitment to Quality IRO Services – A Letter From Our Medical Director
A Commitment to Quality IRO Services – A Letter From Our Medical DirectorHello,My name is Dr. Kevin Roache, and I am the Medical Direcor of IRO Services at BHM Healthcare…
Video: The Value of Imaging Sharing in Clinical Collaboration
With Carestream’s Clinical Collaboration Platform, you will see how more images can be shared across the enterprise from more modalities.The ability to share more image formats across more devices is…
6 Questions: Reality Check for Healthcare Ads & Slogans
One of the oldest and most familiar brand names in the mattress industry—Sealy—owes much of its success to an advertising executive. He invented the slogan: “Sleeping on a Sealy is like…
The Top 7 Benefits of External IROs
With healthcare reform well under way, External Independent Review Organizations, (IROs) have become a requirement nationwide. With healthcare reform well under way, External Independent Review Organizations, (IROs) have become a…
Technology advances in spine surgery
Manufacturers, clinicians and others focusing on technology advancement in spine surgery are not developing radical innovations, but are making enough incremental improvements in a number of ways that result in…
EHR satisfaction survey; reading between the lines and thinking about what’s next
It was with a bit of my own satisfaction that I read today's HealthcareITNews report on their new user survey of EHR satisfaction . The survey of 396 individual users…
