Technology and Patient Engagement

If you leverage the right business partners for your email, you can both mitigate risk and provide seamless communication to your patients.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Michael Parisi, Vice President of assurance strategy and Community Development at high trust Alliance, about how physicians and practice owners can discern whether or not communications technology they are interested in integrating into their practice is certified secure.

As physician practices look for ways to build volume and engagement, it’s critical to thoughtfully consider it all from the point of view of patients and consumers.

New study links digital to behavior change and diabetes outcomes

Here are a few reasons why practices need to invest in digital healthcare marketing over traditional methods.

When the office is busy, e-mailing or texting patients to leave feedback is effective. Avoid the pitfalls of unethical feedback solicitation and provide patients allowed incentives to leave their thoughts.

Effective coaching delivered virtually must be conversational and personalized to the individual.

As the industry moves forward, we must ensure all information is included and adoption is encouraged amongst providers of all sizes and types.

Why the conflation of “telehealth” and “virtual care” is misguided.

The history of government healthcare fraud and abuse enforcement efforts teaches one unassailable lesson: increased utilization inevitably leads to increased government scrutiny.

As disastrous and horrific as the coronavirus pandemic has been, many good things have come from it too.

One physician recounts her experiences transitioning telehealth services.

Dr. Janis Coffin, DO, discusses how telehealth has increased the opportunity to manage patients with chronic conditions and how practices can financially benefit from these setups.

Social media gives you insight into the needs of your patients. Don't ignore the opportunity to market your practice to specific patient populations.

Insights from MGMA’s Medical Practice Excellence Pathways Conference.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Chuck Lee, MD, about the complications of low patient health literacy levels and how physicians can improve these levels through communications, partnerships, and outreach.

Software is a powerful tool for provider-patient collaboration, which is one of the most important factors for determining outcomes in every area of health.

Dr. Janis Coffin, DO, discusses how she has witnessed telehealth adoption change over the course of the pandemic

How reputation management has been key to attracting more customers for one virtual care program.

From ACP’s 2021 Internal Medicine Meeting.

How one practice managed the transition to virtual care before the pandemic.

Some of the ways the industry is addressing these issues in medical school and beyond.

Solutions that have become more than just “nice-to-have” since the beginning of the 2020 pandemic.

Patients can hold biases toward physicians in the same way that physicians can be biased in their care delivery.

The difference between a ‘conscious bias’ and an ‘unconscious bias’ and how they are measured.