Category Archives: Practice Management

People are searching for everything you can imagine online: restaurants that will deliver to their homes, the highest ranked family sedans, or the best golf clubs to come out this year. What’s stopping them from searching for the best pediatrician in Miami, or the best nephrologist in Nashville, or best neurologist in Wichita, or scheduling a medical appointment with a nephrologist in Nashville?

The answer to that question is that nothing is stopping them. So, if your potential patients are actively searching for you online, doesn’t it make sense to build the strongest online presence possible?

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When the HIPAA Privacy Rule went into effect in 2003, it functioned, in part, as a major scare tactic for medical practice administrators across the country.

As a flurry of “privacy rights” paperwork was distributed to patients, clinical and clerical staffers were warned to watch what they said about patients – and who they said it to. Managers and doctors tightened up their handling of medical records to make sure they were in compliance with the policies.

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The use of technology can reap major improvements in healthcare, but only if it’s done properly. If medical organizations fail to take care of their IT systems by doing necessary maintenance, their technology can work against them – especially if they’re using older software that requires frequent anti-virus upgrades to stay up-to-date.

Recently, a Lawrenceville, Georgia medical center’s internal IT network was so debilitated by malware that the hospital was forced to turn away patients. Was the hospital’s neglect of its legacy software system to blame?

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Microsoft’s new Kinect technology is all the rage among video gamers these days, but the technology behind the device is a smash hit amongst hackers and scientists most of all. With its multiple color and depth-sensing lenses, skeletal tracking system, and voice microphone array, these tinkering innovators see the Kinect technology as an incredible tool whose true purpose has yet to be discovered. Their experiments with the device got us thinking: Could the Kinect technology eventually make its way into healthcare IT? Continue Reading…

The IBM SmartCamp World Finals

Back in September, CareCloud was selected by IBM to be one of five Finalists competing to win IBM’s Silicon Valley SmartCamp, and when Rich and Albert travelled to Silicon Valley, they brought home the gold. Along with Streetline Networks, we won first place and the chance to compete with winners from around the world for the top prize. This week, CareCloud President and CEO Albert Santalo and Executive Vice President Rich Lopez del Rincon are in Dublin, Ireland, representing the company at the SmartCamp World Finals, and here’s wishing them the best of luck. Continue Reading…

Hello, Internet! First of all, let’s start with an apology: it’s been a little while since we last updated the blog, but not for lack of ! We’ve been extremely busy around here. Between winning IBM SmartCamp Silicon Valley, signing up tons of new clients, and making constant enhancements to our system, we haven’t had a moment to rest. Not that we’re complaining or anything – things are really starting to pick up in the world of healthcare IT, and as always, we’re right on the cutting edge. Continue Reading…

Foreword: Remember that friend of yours, the one that just doesn’t ‘get’ Twitter? The one that talks about how it’s a useless frivolity and a passing fad? We all know at least one. Some people wouldn’t know the future if it came up and bit them, and others try furiously to resist its advance.
On the other hand, us enlightened folk know that the conversations on Twitter are insightful and illuminating, and there’s always room for another voice.

So let’s try something. We’re creating a guide to ease people into the world of Twitter, and we want to get as many non-believers on board as we can. Send it to anyone you think would enjoy Twitter if they ever gave it a chance. If this quick tutorial converts even a few people into Tweeps, we all win. The more, the merrier, as they say. Continue Reading…

Breaking News: Physicians are frustrated by the debate on cuts to Medicare reimbursement rates.

This excellent article asks real physicians what effect these pay cuts would have on their collections, their practice, and by proxy their patients and the healthcare industry as a whole. (via Kaiser Health News)

Spoiler Alert: It’s not pretty.

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