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Physician Burnout: Ways to Reduce and Prevent It
Is Your Practice Prepared for the Millennials?
Millennials—the generation of people between the ages of 18 and 34—make up more than one-quarter of the total U.S. population, and their decisions affect every industry, including healthcare. Their combined purchasing power continues to revolutionize healthcare access...
read moreHow Can Patients be Relieved of Unnecessary Tests and Procedures
After being diagnosed with a severe health problem, such as cancer or autoimmune disease, the last thing a patient wants to worry about is whether all the tests, procedures, and treatments they are being told to undergo are necessary or not. Unfortunately, that is the...
read moreWhat Is Capitation Fee In Healthcare?
US healthcare is researching ways to tackle the challenges of lowering costs and improving the quality and the outcome. The traditional, age-old Fee for Service model is under scrutiny for being expensive and for focussing on rewarding medical providers for volume and...
read moreWhat Is Fee For Service In Healthcare?
Fee for service (FFS) is the most traditional payment model of healthcare. In this model, the healthcare providers and physicians are reimbursed on the basis of the number of services they provide or procedures they conduct. Payments in an FFS model are not...
read moreHow Telemedicine Benefits the Aging Population and their Caregivers
According to the United States Census Bureau - By 2030, all baby boomers will be older than age 65, this will result in the expansion of the size of the older population such that 1 in every five residents will be retirement age....
read morePersonal Health Records: Their importance during Natural Disasters
Natural disasters arrive in different forms, usually without warning. Whether these are wildfires, hurricanes, or tornadoes, it is always crucial to have a plan in place. While initial recovery takes several months, it takes years to recover from the loss of such...
read moreHow Does EHR Integration Benefit Primary Care Practice?
Primary Care is generally the first point of contact for most of the medical concerns. Primary Care includes four major specialty areas: Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pediatrics. Primary Care...
read moreCaring for the Senior Population Through EHR
In our world of rapidly-evolving technology, even the senior population is benefiting from an array of aging-in-place technologies that enables them to grow old in the comfort of their own homes. If current trends continue, the number of people aged 65 or older in the...
read moreMIPS Performance Feedback and Final Scores
Now Available: MIPS 2017 Performance Feedback and Final Score; Process for Targeted Review; EIDM Account Creation CMS is out with MIPS 2017 Performance Feedback and Final Score. All Medicare practitioners and groups who had submitted MIPS 2017data can check their MIPS...
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