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Survey: Telemedicine use on the rise
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationThe latest telehealth report — one of many in a recent string — suggests the market is finally maturing. "Telehealth Index: 2015 Physician Survey" found strong support exists for video-based telemedicine, more so than telephone or email communications. The survey by American Well and QuantiaMD spoke with more than 2,000 primary doctors.
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Doctors: EHRs have not improved productivity
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationThe Physicians Alliance of America has found that EHRs increase physicians' administrative burdens and decrease their productivity. The PAA survey of 250 pediatric, family medicine and internal medicine physicians aimed to substantiate anecdotal evidence that EHRs were adversely affecting physicians' business and workflow.
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Does your dental office have a system set up for hiring?
Jill Nesbitt Oral & Dental HealthcareWhat is it like in your office when it's time to hire a new staff member? Does your dentist talk privately with a few candidates while the rest of the staff check them out as they walk through the office? Once a new person has been hired, is she asking the other staff about benefits? Who does the reference checks?
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How do you see your job in the dental office?
Jill Nesbitt Oral & Dental HealthcareAre you responsible for handling the insurance and billing in your office? If so, I bet you are one busy person. Not only do you process every claim and make sure you have every detail correct so the claims go out successfully, but then you also turn around to enter the payments and send statements when the claims close. Even if you are signed up for EFTs, you are keeping your mailman busy.
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Biopolymers: The key to the 21st‑century medical revolution
Adolfo Benedito EngineeringWe have so much hope for medical innovation in the near future. Words such as nanotechnology, immune therapy, stem cells and tissue creation are becoming more and more common in the medical world, generating a current of optimism that we may soon find cures and treatments for many complex diseases and conditions.
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How do e-cigarettes affect oral health?
Piyush Bakshi Oral & Dental HealthcareThe quest for bringing down tobacco use by providing alternative systems for delivering nicotine has given rise to e-cigarettes — electronic cigarettes that can be smoked when the cravings for a puff become too strong to control.
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High hopes, unfulfilled promise: Healthcare groups look beyond portals
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationThe healthcare delivery system currently being transformed is moving us much closer toward longitudinal health and a virtual care team approach. This involves continuous and ubiquitous interaction between the care team and patients — whether they are at home, mobile or in a care facility. The process also requires integration of these interactions into the clinical record, along with remote monitor data and information on social support networks.
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CommonWell continues to expand with strong signs of interoperability
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationThe big movement that is the CommonWell Health Alliance continues to make waves as it attempts to reach further into the healthcare stratosphere. CommonWell recently announced that its five founding member organizations — athenahealth, Cerner, CPSI, Greenway Health and McKesson — will actively deploy CommonWell's services to healthcare provider sites nationwide throughout 2015.
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Universal precautions: They truly are worth it
Christina Thielst Medical & Allied HealthcareWhen a Santa Barbara, California, patient tested positive for Hepatitis C last month, local public health officials investigated the cause. Their analysis included a visit to the patient's physician, where they discovered the medical office was performing injections without following standard/universal precautions to protect themselves and their patients from blood-borne viruses.
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Doctors: We need to delay ICD-10 again
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationThis whole ICD-10 delay thing continues to bear some fruit, and there's still quite a bit of steam behind the effort. With rumors swirling that congressional leaders are finally ready to take action this year, many providers may not be sharing the joy, nor are they looking to celebrate.
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