Medical Board Disciplinary Actions May Argue Against National Telehealth License
The primary responsibility and obligation of state medical boards is to protect consumers by ensuring that all licensed physicians comply with the “community standard of care.” Could they still do…
Is My Medicine on the Prescription Drug Formulary?
One of the frustrating aspects of medical practice is trying to divine if the medication I am prescribing is covered by the patient’s insurance company. One of the frustrating aspects…
Whats Stopping Cloud Based-EHR Adoption?
Ostensibly, the benefits of cloud-based electronic health records seem to far outweigh those of on-premise solutions. To begin, practices don’t have to buy and maintain their own services, a huge…
Raising Healthier Kids: How to Get Them to Play Outside
Many parents are dealing with how to manage the time their kids spend sitting on the couch watching TV or glued to a computer/smartphone/gaming system. Digital devices and other…
Health Business TV: Obamacare Premiums (VIDEO)
In the second edition of Health Business TV, I discuss Obamacare exchange premiums for 2015, the First Opinion app for inexpensive doctor/patient texting, the launch of Healthcare Compass for comparing…
6 Key Considerations When Revising Your ICD-10 Timeline
There have been numerous delays to the implementation of ICD-10. These delays have caused frustration but they have also created windows ofopportunity for healthcare practices and businesses of every kind. There have…
Technology and 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,…
The Quest for Healthcare Quality: Providers and HCAHPS
Healthcare Quality | HCAHPS When it comes to assessing healthcare quality, we’ve already talked about the trouble with defining ‘quality’, the patient’s perspective and touched on the value of HCAHPS…
Tips to Create Unique Social Media Content for Your Hospital
So your healthcare facility has all its social media accounts set up, optimized with descriptions, office hours and custom graphics created. Now what? It’s all about creating content that is…
How to Manage the Internet of Things and Those of Your Patients
If you’ve been paying attention, it would be hard to escape the sudden promotion of what we in technology sector describe as the “Internet of Things” (IoT). If you work…
