3 Ways the ACA Affects Physician Payment
In 2014 the Affordable Care Act will create the largest insurance coverage expansion since the 1960s. The influx in patients with coverage will have a drastic change on how practices receive payments.…
Essure: More Dangerous Than Alternatives or Simply a Failure to Communicate Risks?
By Zuzanna Fiminska Précis: There’s been something of a public backlash against Bayer’s permanent contraception solution, Essure in recent years. By Zuzanna Fiminska Précis: There’s been something of a public backlash against Bayer’s permanent…
Doctors: Beware the Doc Fix
Let’s talk about the Doc Fix. No, it doesn’t mean that surgeons will get any less cranky or that your urologist will improve his bedside manner. What I am talking…
Twitter Cheat Sheet: Microblog Quick Guide for Marketing
Social media platforms have become marketing instruments for patient engagement, service line awareness, new business development and other communications objectives. Each channel has a distinct purpose and personality. This educational…
Two Strategies for the Integration of Patient-Generated Data into the EMR
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost “Two roads diverged in a wood,…
Economies of Scale Enable Mumbai-Based Laboratory to Be Market Leader
When Dr. A. Velumani set up his first laboratory in 1995, he did not know that it would one day command 60% of the Indian market share with a growth…
One Week Into the Heart of the ACA
The Affordable Care Act was enacted all the way back in 2010. But, even before then, critics were asserting that this new law would more or less destroy the American…
Bigger Health System, More Room to Tinker?
First published on MedCityNews.com. The biggest of the big hospitals are getting even bigger. And, according to early analyses of the ongoing wave hospital consolidation, they’re giving way to more…
Order Workflows
Except for emergent situations, no medical device is used without an order. And if not an order written to accomplish a certain clinical task for a specific patient, then “standing”…
4 Reasons Doctors Are Taking a Fresh Look at In-Office Dispensing
More than ever, medical practices throughout the US are motivated to look (again) at ancillary services to bolster shrinking income and to further differentiate their marketing message.As we enter the…
