Medical Entrepreneurs See New Market Opportunities
By Sal Casillas Medical group entrepreneurs are making investments in key strategic initiatives and technology opportunities to compete in the new healthcare economy. The triple aim of healthcare reform — higher quality care, improved population health and reduced per-capita costs — has made independent medical groups, especially in primary care, newly crucial players in the […]
Big Data Brings Healthcare Industry To The Tipping Point
By Sal Casillas To better understand the patient and respond to the population’s health needs, high-performance medical group leaders are leveraging data science. Data has been at the center of every major change in healthcare policy in the last decade. From the EHR incentive program digitizing medical records to the rapid shift to outcomes-based payment […]
Taking a Fresh Look at Medical Scribes
By Sal Casillas Can a new approach to traditional medical scribes create career development opportunities in your medical group while helping your doctors see more patients? Medical scribes surged in popularity when the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act mandated healthcare’s switch to electronic health records (EHR). Using a rotating cast of pre-med students to […]
Positively Social: Curating Your Online Reputation
In our interconnected world, what unfolds after a patient steps over the threshold of a medical group’s door can quickly become fodder for discussion – not only across the dinner table, but also across town and around the globe.
Cutting through Regulatory Change to Innovate as a Surgical Practice
By Sal Casillas How one multi-specialty surgery center is making big investments and taking big risks to grow with outcomes-based payment models Benita Tapia at 90210 Medical Center, a high-performance multi-specialty surgery center in Los Angeles, knows all about the pressures medical group practices are undergoing to deliver quality outcomes to patients in a changing […]
Baby Boomers Embrace Patient Engagement Tools
Submitted by CareCloud Contributor Their 1960s counterculture mantra was, “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” and Baby Boomers today are turning on their devices, tuning into a variety of online channels for health-related information, and (virtually) dropping in on their providers. CareCloud’s 2016 Patient Experience Index found that Baby Boomers are more likely than other […]
How to Leverage Telemedicine for a More Profitable Practice
According to a recent article in FierceHealthIT, the market for telehealth hardware, software, and services is expected to reach an astounding $2.8 billion by 2022. That’s almost five times the value of the market in 2014. What’s driving this sharp spike in the use of telemedicine technology? Intense consumer demand for the service and powerful […]
Why Digital Patient Engagement is Critical for Revenue Cycle Stability
Leveraging digital engagement efforts can be a way for your practice to improve patient satisfaction as well as bring in new business.
The Fate of Meaningful Use
By Diana Manos The fate of the federal government’s method of incentivizing healthcare professionals to “meaningfully use” electronic health records (EHRs) is now in question. After five years, the expenditure of more than $32 billion in bonuses for meaningful use achievers and a drastic boost in EHR adoption, it appears that the federal government is […]
What Does the Future Hold for the EHR Incentive Program?
By Diana Manos The electronic health records (EHR) incentive program began with the best of intentions: to improve healthcare. And many would argue that it has made inroads. If nothing else, it has brought America into the 21st Century for medical record-keeping, moving the majority of providers from paper to digital records The undertaking has […]