Last year over 600 individuals were charged for healthcare fraud schemes in the United States involving over $900 million false and unethical medical billing practices. There is no end to it, every year a huge number of medical practitioners are accused of healthcare frauds worth billions. Basically, frauds in the health care industry are no …
You might have heard a lot about data breaches in the healthcare industry and how those who fail to deliver the required security are seriously penalized. You might wonder why this is so. Well, your patient information is valuable and confidential information that all those involved in the healthcare industry are required to protect at …
It’s perfectly alright to want to ask for a second opinion, be it patients or physicians. It is not wrong to assume that physicians are experts in the field and would know it everything, but there are exceptions to this. As a physician, you have a certain specialization which is why patients trust your opinion, …
There are numerous marketing strategies that can augment the business of a medical practice. Proper use of innovative marketing strategies for your medical practice is a must to stay competitive and achieve your revenue goals. Here are a few medical marketing ideas that can transform the way you do business and you would see significant …
Physicians, as well as the entire medical staff, seek means to deliver their patients with the best healthcare services. To make sure the supply of higher quality medical and healthcare facilities to the patients, county health department can work well for the fulfillment of this purpose. Highly specialized experts: At county health departments, highly skilled …
Urgent medical care facilities are intended to deliver the patients with immediate medical services nearest to their access way. It is quite unlike than the emergency room and the services provided there are also different or less critical than as what you find in a hospital. In the beginning, these types of medical centers were …
In the past, doctors were used to keeping the medical records of the patients by writing them down in a medical register or a medical file. That way of keeping the medical history is vulnerable and is unsafe. Today, Electronic Medical Record systems also known as EMR are efficiently used by the doctors and physicians …
Healthcare industry is the name of a wide range of disciplines and fields facilitating a larger group of people across the globe as a whole and has undergone a rapid transformation in the U.S. in particular. For this vast industry to function smoothly and uninterruptedly, it is essential to counter the challenges of reimbursement that …
With an everyday increase in the competitive environment in the healthcare industry, healthcare providers are searching for improved methods to provide the patients, the best quality care services. At present, the methods formerly applied for providing healthcare are found to be insufficient to fulfill the new and rising healthcare requirements of the patients. For this …
Technology is transforming every industry and healthcare is not an exception. Use of mobile applications to monitor different aspects of health is rising with a number of new apps adding up every day. Physicians are also gathering vital information of patients through these mobile applications. It is not only helping to deliver remote consultation plus …