Feb 27, 2020 | iOrder, Order Management
(Last updated: 2/27/2020) Communication is critical to the effective delivery of healthcare. This is particularly true today, with so many different people and entities involved in the patient care workflow. Physicians and other members of medical practices must...
Oct 25, 2019 | Patient Experience
The healthcare industry is increasingly seeing a shift toward consumerism. Patients are starting to treat their healthcare like the other aspects of their lives, comparing multiple providers to determine the best option based a number of factors. In fact, a recent...
Oct 16, 2019 | Patient Experience
Creating an exceptional customer experience should be a focus of any business, but it’s especially important for medical practices. Patients typically aren’t excited about going to the doctor or hospital. When seeking medical treatment, patients are often experiencing...
Sep 24, 2019 | Interoperability, Order Management
Healthcare information is among the most important types of data in the world because lives depend on it. As such, it is imperative that patient health data is easily and securely shared and accessed by healthcare professionals across various practices, fields, and...
Aug 5, 2019 | Healthcare Finances, iOrder, Order Management
Ambulatory care comes with its share of overhead. Some of it is unavoidable. Other aspects are potentially reducible, depending on how your staff manages orders and related workflows. Order management software, implemented the right way, can drive cuts in overhead...
Aug 2, 2019 | Healthcare Finances, iOrder, Order Management
The best part of providing an ambulatory service is the pure professional pride you have in delivering it, regardless of whether or not you get paid. Actually, we’re just kidding. Of course, you always do your professional best. Getting paid is the whole point....
Jul 29, 2019 | Order Management
Let’s say a patient needs an exam that a primary care physician can’t perform. The doctor’s office prescribes the order and sends the patient off to the service provider. If you’re the service provider, such as a hospital or imaging center, you wait for the...
Jul 23, 2019 | iOrder, Referrals
How do you get patients in your facility? Usually, they come from referring physicians. Referrals equal revenue. More referrals equal revenue growth. The question thus emerges, how can you increase patient referrals? Having worked with many imaging facilities over the...
Jul 15, 2019 | iOrder, qCDSM
There has been some confusion about the looming deadlines for complying with new Federal regulations concerning the use of Qualified Clinical Decision Support Mechanisms (qCDSMs). Mandatary use of qCDSMs will be the law as of January 1, 2020, about six months from...