Practice Technology

For healthcare, blockchain can be used for payment processing, but it can also improve interoperability, track claims processing, or develop and maintain provider directories.

Scribes are someone who works offsite or in a different area of the practice (i.e., not in the exam room) to document important aspects of the encounter so the physician or other provider can focus on providing patient care and working more efficiently.

In Nebraska and Iowa, information on housing, transportation and other non-clinical needs is being exchanged electronically.

The need for a consistent and professional digital marketing strategy is universal.

Eight ways texting can improve patient retention and boost revenue.

The prevalence of insulin pump use for Black beneficiaries increased from 3.9% to 4.6% between 2017 and 2019.

Research shows that telehealth bridges gaps in healthcare access despite party affiliations.

Two possible explanations for declining contentment with live video calls as a form of care delivery.

The process of acquiring personal health data is difficult and time consuming, especially for someone who is already ill.

The past 18 months have proven that healthcare needs the cloud.

Telehealth visits increased, but overall utilization of Part B declined

The platform was created to make it easy for ill patients to obtain all their health data.

The $17 billion deal sees athenahealth acquired by affiliates of Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman.

Is more testing the answer to a worsening drug crisis?

These tips can keep your practice safe from ransomware, hackers and other bad actors.

Deven McGraw, co-founder of the health data platform Ciitizen, sits down with Medical Economics to explain the information blocking rule and why there are still issues for patients to access their health data.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has led to telehealth expansion, the question remains which expansions should continue.

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a sea change in the way that physicians treat their patients and nowhere is this more evident that in the near-overnight implementation of telehealth across the health care industry.

Now that patients have seen how technology can change their health care experience for the better, practices must adapt by using the latest tools or risk losing their patients to competitors.

The Medicare telehealth expansion will continue at least until Dec. 31, 2022.

More medical and SDOH data is available now than ever before to clinicians, health care organizations and payors.

Patients are looking for user-friendly technology.

For the first time, clinicians have been able to get a “behind the scenes look” into their patient’s environment during telehealth visits

UnitedHealthcare’s newly launched virtual first plan is one part of a push by the industry.

When embarking on a revenue cycle automation project, it's prudent to crawl before you walk and then walk before you run.

The Facebook outage is a reminder of how crucial it is for physicians and health care facilities to protect themselves in such an event.