As social media becomes more and more pervasive in daily life, it’s more important than ever for hospitals and medical practices to use tools like Facebook to engage with patients and the public in a meaningful way.
Plenty of healthcare organizations have signed up for Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube or Facebook, but not all of them are using the tools effectively.
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The uncertainties surrounding the future of Medicare physician reimbursements have doctors across the U.S. concerned for their practices and patients.
If the planned 27.4% Medicare payment cut is not further postponed or resolved before the coming two-month reprieve is up, it will be more difficult than ever for doctors to receive adequate payment for administering care to the elderly.
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The entire physician revenue cycle, from scheduling patients to collecting final reimbursement, involves many steps, several of them requiring tedious paperwork.
This convoluted workflow can allow underpayments, denials and ignored claims to fall through the cracks. With the MGMA estimating that U.S. medical practices are, on average, failing to collect 25% of the money they’re owed for treating patients, you can’t afford to let your workflow work against you.
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Patient check-in can be a slow process that is costing your practice time and money, but new check-in kiosks can streamline the process.
Though EHRs are dominating the healthcare IT headlines, there are a number of other systems available, like kiosks, that you can implement easily and use to make immediate, positive changes to your operations. This article is the second in a four-part series highlighting the technologies you should start using to improve your practice.
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