Power 5 Week in Review: Keeping Your Practice on Top
The summer months can go either way at the medical practice. Maybe your workflow has slowed down a bit since young patients don’t need sports physicals during summer break and adult patients are taking vacations. Or maybe you’re slammed, hustling to cover absences while your staff and doctors take time off. In any case, it’s […]
Politics, Religion & Probing Questions: How to Handle the ‘Touchy Subjects’
Over the course of their careers, doctors are sure to encounter more than a few uncomfortable questions from patients or staff – and some matters aren’t all that easy to evade. Despite the frequent occurrence of touchy subjects in medical practice, ethical guidelines rarely dictate what routes docs should take when such sensitive stuff comes […]
Avoid Shutting the Doors at Your Medical Practice
It seems healthcare lives in a rather baroque age. Despite a seemingly positive development like the Affordable Care Act and advances in health IT, reporters and research firms release statistic after dismal statistic, and clinician attitudes become increasingly more negative on a daily basis. Let’s look at the facts. According to an MDLinx survey, 32% […]
CareCloud Named ‘One to Watch’ by AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn, a leading business media company, has named CareCloud one of its top 50 global private technology companies to watch in 2012. The honor was announced in conjunction with the release of AlwaysOn’s tenth annual Global 250 Top Private Companies list. The winning companies were judged on five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value […]
Don’t Let Tax ID Issues Derail Your Payments
Submitting medical insurance claims with the correct tax information is key to getting claims paid correctly. How the provider is set up with the government to pay taxes governs some of the information that is entered on the claim forms. For example, if the provider has an Employer ID Number (EIN) registered with the government […]
Go Green! How & Why to Make Your Practice Eco-Friendly
From organic food to solar energy to eco-friendly cleaning supplies, the shift toward environmentally sound policies and practices is expanding across business sectors throughout the world – and healthcare is no exception. As local hospitals and group MSOs in your area start undertaking efforts to “go green,” you may be wondering what benefits a similar […]
Could ‘eWallets’ Ever Make it to Healthcare?
Digital payment systems are attracting a wealth of interest in the technology news sphere these days, and for good reason. So-called “eWallets” may be the future of financial transactions. Sure, mobile payment systems have been around for a little while. Starbucks has actually been a major leader in this sector since early 2011; its iPhone […]
How to Support Your Staff Through the EHR Adoption Process
Articles on electronic health record planning, purchasing, training and so on do a great job of focusing on the technical aspects doctors need to know about EHRs, as well as what kinds of questions to ask vendors. What about your staff? Those are the people who carry your practice on their backs and ensure the […]
Power 5 Week in Review: Fourth of July Edition
This past week was a short one at Power Your Practice as we celebrated our nation’s birthday! We hope the mid-week holiday was a safe and enjoyable one. The fireworks outside mirrored the kind of firepower in this week’s pieces, though. Read on to find out what I’m talking about.
4 Ways to Accommodate More Patients in Your Community
If you’re looking to expand your practice’s patient base, it may take more than posting a sign in your office lobby. A notice that you’re “Welcoming New Patients” may attract some folks to your practice, but keeping them around for the long-term requires that you accommodate their needs. Adapting to meet the underserved needs of […]