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Practice tip of the week: Engaging patients in digital check-in

Practice tip of the week: Email Phishing: How to protect your practice

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.



Practice tip of the week: The eight tech products every physician should have

Keith Algozzine is co-founder and CEO of 

. A board-certified Physician Assistant, he was formerly the Chief PA of Emergency Medicine for St. Mary’s Hospital in Troy, NY, where he witnessed firsthand the challenges of the modern healthcare system. Keith was also part of the national ER startup management team for Pegasus Emergency Medicine. He represents UCM Digital Health on the American Telemedicine Association Accreditation Advisory Board and serves as an advisor to the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committees dealing with telemedicine considerations for urgent and emergency care.

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As patient volumes grow, digital front doors can be a boon to your practice.

6 Benefits of digital front doors

Travis Schneider is Co-founder and Chief Corporate Development Officer for Tebra, a leading cloud-based healthcare technology platform. In his role, Travis oversees M&A and strategic partnerships for the organization.

In 2021, PatientPop, a leader in practice growth technology, merged with Kareo, a leader in cloud-based clinical and financial software. Travis was Co-founder and Co-CEO of PatientPop, where he oversaw all aspects of strategy, sales, and business development. He is enthusiastic about leading the integrated corporate development for Tebra.

Before co-founding the company, Travis co-founded and served as CEO of ShopNation. He also co-founded and served as CEO of StarBrand Media. The businesses were acquired by Meredith Corporation and POPSUGAR, respectively.

Travis holds an honors degree in business and economics from Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also a two-time recipient of the KPMG Enterprise Entrepreneur Award.

Maintaining your practice's online reputation can be a key to growth.

3 Ways to boost your practice’s online reputation

Text messaging can make your patients' waiting room experience less laborious.

Leveraging the power and convenience of text messaging for your practice

As COVID-19 precautions dwindle to nothing, patient wait times explode.

5 ways digital front doors improve patient health, remove barriers to physicians

While there are myriad apps available in digital storefronts hosted by Apple, Google and Amazon, it can be difficult to choose an effective app that also keeps patient health data safe.

Use apps to improve patient outcomes

 advises clients on compliance, transactions, government administrative actions, and litigation involving healthcare, cybersecurity, corporate and securities law, as well as False Claims Act and Dodd-Frank whistleblower cases. She also teaches bioethics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Rachel can be reached through her website, 

What can organizations do to be proactive in protecting personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI)?

Tips for protecting the confidentiality and integrity of patient data

Justin Jacobson is the Vice President & General Manager, Patient Engagement Solutions, Nuance Communications

Today's patients are looking for convenience, and technology can provide it.

Technology and Patient Engagement