Important Features of EHR Software From the Perspective of a Healthcare Worker and Current Patient

Current State of Healthcare IT Health Information Technology  (HIT) is huge in the healthcare industry. Times are changing and so are the ways we record patient data. Nowadays, it’s not uncommon to be at the doctor’s office spending at least 10 minutes going through questions you most likely have gone over and over before. Scenarios

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Best Practices to Secure Patient Data

It’s important for healthcare providers to ensure patient data privacy in order to build lasting and meaningful relationship with their customers. However, it’s not easy to secure health data with the growing concerns in cybersecurity threats today. According to healthcare data breach statistics from 2009 to 2017, 2,181 healthcare data breaches was recorded resulting to

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Behavioral Addictions: Could You Suffer From One of These Compulsive Habits? And Some Useful Apps

The topic of addiction commonly draws a person’s attention to things like drugs and alcohol. Though substance abuse continues to be one of the largest forms of addiction in the nation, vodka, tequila, marijuana, heroin, and opiates (to name a few) aren’t the only things a person can indulge in compulsively. Believe it or not,

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Tech Savvy Ways to Pass the MCAT

Prospective medical students are required to complete the Medical College Admissions Test before starting their medical program. The exam tests the student’s medical knowledge and determines if they are the best fit for the college-based program. Future doctors who hope to start their program soon should review tech-savvy options that enable them to pass the

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CRM Can Do More for Both Patients and Healthcare

Customer relationship management platforms (eg. Salesforce, Hubspot, Base, etc.) have begun to revolutionize the way healthcare system administrators approach patient acquisition, engagement, and retention. Now that more robust EMRs integrate with the CRM, administrators and physicians are suddenly capable of possessing a comprehensive, 360-degree view of the patient’s journey, from the first phone call, to

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The Importance of Analytics for a Healthcare System

Ever increasing computational power, advances in artificial intelligence, and the lower of the cost computation (because of cloud computing service such as Azure and Amazon Web Services) has enabled healthcare systems – often laggards in quality improvement and technology adoption – to rapidly implement analytics systems. Such systems enable enterprises to analyze and model their

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