Medical care is necessary to prevent diseases and improve quality of life. With many doctors offering a wide range of treatments, additional staffing is required to ensure smooth and timely interactions and services for every patient. In many cases, the role of a Medical Assistant extends beyond checking vitals and updating medical histories.
Medical Assistant Career Advancement: 10 Pros of Working in the Field
Topics: Operations, HR, Physician-Patient Relationship, Location
[How-To] Guide for Physician Online Reputation Management
A significant portion of patient outreach and engagement happens online. The digital age has ushered in a new era where the majority of patients turn to the Internet to find and evaluate healthcare providers before scheduling an appointment.
What Are Medical Billing Services? Why Outsource Medical Billing?
Busy medical practices have to balance a high level of patient care with completing necessary administrative tasks to keep the doors open.
Medical billing can take up a lot of valuable time. It can also be difficult to find and train people to handle this crucial task. Plus, if claims are processed slowly or incorrectly, they can negatively impact your practice's revenue.
Topics: Business Growth, Operations, Financial, Medical Billing
In the ever-evolving healthcare landscape, 2024 has brought about a pivotal shift in how physicians manage their practices. With an increasing emphasis on efficiency, patient satisfaction, and outcome-based performance, technology has become an indispensable tool in realizing these goals.
Bookkeeping for medical practices can be a complicated process. Technology may be the resource you need to ensure a potentially complex process does not result in missed opportunities or lost revenue.
Topics: Practice Management, Financial, Medical Billing, Technology
A Decade in Excellence: Celebrating Private Practice Growth & Partnership
Addison Internal Medicine has spent a decade working toward what it is today: a premier destination for advanced primary medical care. The practice has achieved success in quality of care provided, patient satisfaction, and has shown the ability to adapt and grow with the community’s evolving needs.
Topics: Practice Management, Consulting
7 Use Cases of Healthcare AI to Improve Office Workflow Management
You don't have to look far to see the use cases of AI in healthcare – diagnostics, robotic surgery, and much more. But what about the time-sucking tasks that get in the way of those important patient touchpoints?
Topics: Marketing, Business Growth, Social Media, Patient Volumes, Financial, Coding, IT, Medical Billing, Physician-Patient Relationship, Technology
The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system is designed to provide comprehensive, up-to-date information regarding the patient journey that can be shared among different departments or medical centers, facilitating effective communication between clinicians and improving the quality of patient care.
Topics: HIPAA, Practice Management, Consulting
9 Tips on Selecting the Best Name for Your New Medical Practice
What’s in a name? It turns out that names are very powerful, especially when you’re selecting a name for your practice. Your practice name is how patients will share recommendations with friends and family. It’s how people will find you online, and it’s the cornerstone of your medical practice’s identity.
Topics: Marketing, Practice Management, Practice Start-Up
Healthcare professionals regularly find themselves struggling to find the best ways to help patients, working in a world where masks continue to be a controversial topic and health is a valued commodity. Society has discovered, thanks in part to the coronavirus pandemic, that a work-life balance is a higher priority than it had been given of late and has begun taking steps to change lives for the better.
Healthcare employment is projected to increase 13% by 2031, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor projects that means 2 million new jobs in a decade. With more employees to think about, Healthcare HR has some ongoing concerns to address.
Topics: Business Growth, Operations, Compliance, Practice Start-Up, Physician-Patient Relationship