Article Archive for October 2020
EHRs, Technology and the Pandemic
2020 and COVID-19 has brought the importance and usefulness of technology into the spotlight. This is true across all industries, but in healthcare physicians often saw the electronic health record (EHR) as a challenge in …
Healthcare’s Future
2020 has not exactly played out like everyone predicted at the end of last year. The pandemic accelerated adoption of telehealth, remote monitoring and digital health capabilities by nearly a decade for some organizations. It …
Medical Transportation Made Easier
A new partnership between Lyft and Epic will allow healthcare staff to schedule rides for patients directly from their electronic health record (EHR). Healthcare IT News brought this interesting development to our attention in their …
Fraud in a Pandemic
As the number of people and communities that are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic grows, unfortunately the frequency of the scams associated with it grows as well. This concerning news came to us from The …
Phases of Healthcare Information Technology
Health care is in a significant stage of evolution. Wondrous advances in medicine and technology are taking place each and every day. Today’s healthcare system is complex and very different from “what it used to be.” …
Telehealth and Burnout
Telehealth has grown beyond imagination during the pandemic. Has it grown too much? MedPage Today brought this news to our attention in their article, “The Telehealth Bubble’s Uncertain Future; Roots of Physician Burnout.”
Some experts argue …
Fighting Fraud Continues
After a federal lawsuit charging fraudulent billing to Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE and other federal health care programs, Michael Doyle and Christopher Toepke and their businesses, Logan Laboratories Inc. and Tampa Pain Relief Centers Inc., have …
Understanding Concierge Medicine
Under the membership medicine umbrella, concierge models usually accept insurance while direct primary care generally does not. However, in certain situations and markets, concierge physicians have launched thriving payer-free practices in an effort to simplify …
Fighting the Pandemic and Fraud
Legitimate medical professionals and scientists throughout the United States are working hard to find a cure, approved treatment and vaccine for COVID-19. There are, unfortunately, bad people selling fraudulent COVID-19 test kits and unapproved treatments …
Social Inequities Revealed in Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a serious test to the health care system. Non-medical factors, or social determinants of health (SDOH), are gaining prominence in the public conception of what an adequate health care system offers patients. …
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