Medicine & Technology

Compiling and analyzing data from single or multiple sources can help identify ways to better utilize resources, evaluate business lines, reveal health patterns, understand the financial performance of an area and lead to better understanding and performance in risk-based contracts.

If you use it correctly, the website you establish on the Internet can be an extremely effective marketing tool for your medical practice.

Many physicians throughout the country are just being informed that their computer systems are not Year 2000 compliant and are being asked to spend thousands of dollars to become compliant. Some of these practices have been successful in negotiating a reduced price for their Year 2000 upgrade.

Parties to health care electronic data exchange must focus on a range of transactional issues and state and federal requirements.

What every physician should know when buying new billing software.

Imaging and document management systems can dramatically cut the time physicians spend searching for necessary information. However, medical practices must carefully evaluate certain aspects of an imaging and document management solution, as the wrong system may diminish its overall value.

The opportunity for patients to be able to access information about you, to ask questions, and even to schedule appointments is here and waiting for you to take advantage of it

Given ample reason to be concerned about their documentation and coding habits, physicians need to examine the strengths and weaknesses of various products and services available to expedite those tasks. Documentation efficiency aside, one might also contemplate how useful these systems are to actual patient care.

As computers start appearing in the clinical side of the physician's office, more physicians become conversant with new information technologies and Internet usage become the norm, many distinctly different systems are emerging to assist physicians in providing clinical care to their patients.

Information technologies such as interactive video conferencing and interactive modules on the World Wide Web are making CME more accessible and convenient. Take a look at the next generation of CME delivery.