Clinical Nurse Leaders: The Air Traffic Controllers of Patient Care [INFOGRAPHIC]
Established only 11 years ago, the role of the clinical nurse leader is a relatively new one. At the time of introduction, it was the first new nursing role in…
Should Your Medical Practice Have a Twitter Account?
Using social media sites can be a wonderful way for medical practices to connect with their patients, potential patients and the community at large. After all, most practices only see…
Holding Down Costs for Clinical Trial Recruitment
The costs of patient recruitment and retention are often under-recognized when budgeting for clinical trials. The costs of patient recruitment and retention are often under-recognized when budgeting for clinical trials.…
Patient-Centered Physicians Have Lower Diagnostic Testing Costs
For many physicians, the term “patient-centered” conjures up fears of longer office visits and patients demanding expensive diagnostic tests and procedures they don’t need. For many physicians, the term “patient-centered”…
Breaking Language Barriers in Healthcare Using Digital Technology
The non-English speaking patient population in the U.S. accounts for an estimated 30 million people. Navigating our health system is challenging enough for native speakers, but what about for those…
Breaking News: Healthcare Advertising Changing for the Better
You don’t often see the topic of healthcare marketing covered by the popular media, so this Orlando Sentinel article about hospital advertising caught my attention. Basically, the premise of the piece…
Frustrations Among Primary Care Physicians Should Be a Wakeup Call
Primary care physicians (PCPs) are incredibly frustrated. This level of frustration should be a wakeup call. The greatest frustration is “Time, time, time”- or more precisely, a lack of time.…
Q&A Part Two: Technology & Healthcare Efficiency—Not Always the Perfect Match
David Lee Scher, M.D., is a cardiac electrophysiologist and a pioneer in remote patient monitoring, adopting such devices to his medical practice more than 13 years ago. David Lee Scher,…
Standards of Decency in the Blogosphere
A few weeks back, I posted a piece entitled Are Emergency Rooms Admitting Too Many Patients? The essay was cross posted on KevinMD’s site a week or so after it appeared…
