As a hospital or clinic, your success largely depends on being embraced by potential and current patients. A huge part of connecting with your clientele is to make your web presence one worth visiting. Taking stock of your hospital or clinic website's SEO prowess is a great first step.
Health Systems Are Having Difficulty Connecting With Patients.
In today’s fragmented digital landscape, health systems are having difficulty connecting with patients. This is leading to a potential decrease in patient acquisition — and ultimately less revenue. With physician and health system information living across a variety of places and devices, patients are having trouble finding the right healthcare information in moments that matter.
Study finds 50% of Practices Are Taking a Revenue Hit
Almost half of physician practices may be missing out on an opportunity to generate revenue by providing annual wellness visits to Medicare patients, according to a new study.
MACRA 101 - RMC Delivers
Medicare is undertaking a significant update to how it pays for physician services. As is typically the case with Medicare, privately managed Medicare will likely follow suit. It is important to understand the details around the MACRA as it will impact many of our health plan clients.
Proposed Rule Seeks to Expand Access To Associated Health Plans
In an effort to increase access to affordable healthcare coverage, the Trump Administration on Thursday morning proposed a new rule that aims to expand access to certain associated health plans. The rule is meant to stir competition in the health insurance markets.
Within the rule, small businesses and those who are self-employed will be able to work together to obtain affordable health insurance. If enacted, this rule would change the way “employer” is referred to under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. By doing so, more groups would be able to form health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act.
Experts analyze that the proposed rule would actually hurt the individual health insurance market, since these associated health plans that would be made would not be under the same regulations and protections as other health plans in the market.
Read the original article from Modern Healthcare here.
Can BI tools benefit your organization leading to financial victory?
As competing priorities emerge, it’s getting tougher and tougher to find the time and resources to effectively manage today’s revenue cycle processes.
Health Care Leadership: 5 Ways To Empower Your People
As we help our clients with their internal campaigns, we hear the same cries for help during interviews and focus groups and watch as employees become unstuck when their leadership starts implementing ways to address employee engagement. Here are a few ways you can refocus your attention on the real measure of ROI in your organization—your people.
Newly-Designed Physician EHR Notes May Improve Usability
Showing less data in physician EHR notes may produce more benefits for physician productivity, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (JABFM).
Medical Billing Software Enhances Efficiency
Here are some common features of medical billing software that can contribute a lot to increasing practice efficiency:
How To Have A Successful Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management
When it comes to running your practice more efficiently, maintaining a steady cash flow and driving revenue, you must make healthcare revenue cycle management a priority.
How To Build An Effective Healthcare Inbound Marketing Team
Long gone are the days when you could rely on a small team of “marketers.” Today's healthcare marketing team consists of different job titles in highly specific roles...
EHR tasks take up half of the primary care physician’s workday
Digital Marketing Agency Chosen For Healthcare Expertise, One-Stop Shop Digital Marketing
Green Stick Marketing, a Virginia Beach-based agency specializing in digital marketing for small commercial enterprises, announced today...
EHR Optimization: The Benefits of Continuous Training
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT IS WHAT EHR OPTIMIZATION IS ALL ABOUT. IT HELPS CLINICIANS USE THE PLATFORM MORE EFFECTIVELY AND RESULTS IN GREATER EFFICIENCY.
Revenue Management: Using Data
Why You Should (or Shouldn’t) Use Medical Billing Software
Are employees of medical practices often overworked? Yes. Is there anything you can do about it? Yes. You may not be able to reduce your number of patients (nor would you want to), or make compliance easier or decrease the number of back office tasks that need to be done, but you can streamline some of your most time-consuming tasks.
A new bill wants to incentivize psychiatrists, hospitals to adopt EHR for mental health patients
Earlier this week U.S. Rep Tim Murphy from the 18th district in Pennsylvania introduced a bill to integrate medical records for addiction treatment with the rest of the patients’ electronic medical record.
11 Ways AI is transforming healthcare and solving problems in 2017
Is Biometric Identification the Answer to Patient Data Integrity Issues?
Patients can now access their own records online to view medical results, schedule appointments, request prescription refills, and manage their medical claims.
How Can Healthcare Email Marketing Help Your Practice?
An effective email marketing strategy is crucial for the healthcare practitioner to attract more patients
