Categorized as: Health IT
08Jul The Value of a Patient Portal: Increasing Compliance While Reducing Cost
As patients become more and more interested in engaging and communicating with their healthcare providers online, the demand for portal applications will only increase. Patients are looking for innovative ways to access their health information and care providers – what better way than online patient portals? Portals are healthcare related onl
06Jul Avoiding the Breach: Is our patient data really protected?
Electronic health records (EHRs) are the future of the provider‐patient relationship. As the storage, retrieval and sharing of information via EHR accelerates, providers benefit from the most accurate and up‐to‐date information available. The delivery of care is optimized through these systems giving providers the information necessary to
07Apr Manage the Evidence Like a Pro
The problem. You are trying to stay current with the literature because that’s a great way to ensure quality treatment of your patients OR your a student in a physical therapy school that has a strong evidence based practice curriculum AND you end up having a hard drive littered with PDFs, like this: The solution. Papers2
08Feb Mrs. Smith: you have an upcoming PT appointment…
Another guest post from Bronwyn Spira, PT, and Tejal Ramaiya, DPT, CSCS, this one an apt follow-up to my post on Physical Therapist Use of Smart Phones: One of the most frustrating issues plaguing physical therapy practices has to be no shows and late cancellations of scheduled visits. Poor patient attendance results in lost revenues
07Feb Smart Phone Use by Physical Therapists
Houston, we have a problem! Kyle’s post about smart phone use by physicians had a brief reference to some data attempting to describe smart phone use by PT’s. Well, we did some digging and discovered the real figures. This information is preliminary data obtained when PT Journal surveyed a representative sample of APTA member subscriber
06Feb Best of Tech 2010…PT Edition
Hello. If you read as many blogs as I do (see Google Reader later in this post) you probably noticed many of them put together an end of the year review of what tools made a big impact throughout the year. I thought it would be a good exercise for physical therapists to see what
01Feb Smart phone “use” by physicians. What do the numbers really mean?
A recent article entitled “Why industry surveys on physician adoption of smart phones could be overestimating reality”at iMedicalApps [Mobile Medical App Reviews & Commentary – A publication by medical professionals] explored what recent market research really means… It has been cited in market research that 72% to 94% of physicians ar
01Feb Did you forget what I told you?
I stumbled across this interesting little bit from the Markle Survey on Health in a Networked Life. It concerns perceptions of communication gaps between patients and physicians. Simply put, doctors think patients forget things they tell them and patients think doctors forget things about them. While both situations are probably true, the gap in th
