Health Prime

JUNE 20, 2024

Staff shortages and high turnover rates in healthcare affect the quality and safety of healthcare services, disrupt the efficiency of healthcare facilities, and have far-reaching implications for patient care and financial stability. Read more about this in our blog What is your administrative burden costing you?

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Health Prime

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Practices can begin to identify and implement targeted strategies to address them, improving patient satisfaction, operational efficiency, and financial stability. Learn more about this in our blog Improve your front desk processes with these best practices. Main issues in the check-in process 1.

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Practice Index

MARCH 6, 2025

Patient care must be protected from gaps in local commissioning arrangements. Regional campaign to encourage take-up of clinician appointments A new regional campaign is aiming to encourage patients to use the range of clinicians available within practices. It states that the dispute with Government may be over.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 1, 2025

Counting on external specialized teams in your medical practice presents benefits such as cost savings, financial optimization, focus on patient care, reduced administrative burden, and specialized expertise. Read more about this in our blog 5 reasons to outsource your medical billing. At Health Prime, we can help !

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Fewer staff means longer waits for appointments. Patients will see the difference its just a question of when. This could lead to longer-term issues in patient care, as fewer experienced staff members will be available to handle the growing administrative burden of general practice.

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Health Prime

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As mental health demand continues to grow exponentially , it is equally important for mental health providers to optimize their billing practices to ensure fair and timely reimbursements, enabling them to continue delivering high-quality patient care. Strategies to improve your mental health reimbursements 1.

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Scrubs

APRIL 9, 2023

The healthcare industry is transforming with the introduction of ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that enables medical professionals and hospitals to streamline their workflow and provide better patient care. Get out of line and get back your time with automated appointment scheduling! What can ChatGPT do?

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Scrubs

MARCH 21, 2023

Deborah Vaughan, a patient at the hospital, said she appreciates being able to look her doctor in the eye while talking about her health. Her regular doctor, Dr. Rebecca Hemphill, used the AI app during her last two medical appointments at MaineHealth. It feels more like my needs are being met. “You

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Practice Index

JANUARY 30, 2025

Their research examined the effects of different kinds of GP giving prescriptions for antibiotics and found that patients are less likely to return to the doctor, or attend emergency departments, if they receive the prescription from a familiar doctor. Continuity of care also increased the time between appointment requests.

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Arkenea

APRIL 8, 2025

The landscape of healthcare is constantly evolving, and with it, the need for efficient and innovative tools to manage patient care, streamline workflows, and meet regulatory compliance. This blog provides an in-depth exploration of Allscripts EMR, highlighting its features, benefits, and applications. Why Choose Allscripts EMR?

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Health Prime

MAY 9, 2024

These appointments are pivotal in identifying and addressing health concerns before they escalate, from screening for breast and cervical cancers to monitoring blood pressure and cholesterol levels. AWV can help you decrease overall costs, increase practice revenue, and enhance good patient care. At Health Prime, we can help!

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Valant

AUGUST 5, 2024

Outcome measures data provides the takeaways used to evaluate the effectiveness of treatments and to ensure that patient care meets established quality standards. Outcome measures data provides an objective, structured method for tracking patient progress over time. There is a famous saying, “what gets measured gets managed.”

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Health Prime

MARCH 21, 2024

The revenue cycle in healthcare refers to the entire process of managing the financial aspects of patient care, from the initial appointment scheduling to the final payment received for services rendered. It is also essential that your practice regularly updates patient records to prevent billing errors and delays.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Digital solutions such as remote monitoring and patient-initiated follow-up are also being promoted as ways to improve access and reduce unnecessary appointments. Instead of issuing vague ambitions, NHS England must provide the certainty and support required to deliver high-quality patient care.

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Health Prime

APRIL 11, 2024

Also, remember to optimize staffing levels and roles to improve productivity and patient care. Patient experience: Focus on enhancing the patient’s journey from scheduling appointments to post-visit follow-ups. Read more about this in our blog Practice Optimization: How to convert resources into revenue.

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Health Prime

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Encourage your patients to schedule preventative care appointments Increase early assessment and diagnosis, risk reduction, prevention, and management of chronic diseases for people with or at risk of certain conditions. Every patient can go once a year without any medical symptoms for a routine check-up and preventative care.

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Practice Index

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The BMA’s guidance recommends a cap of 25 patient contacts (including by phone, online or in person) per GP per day, backed by 15-minute consultation times, a shift intended to provide better care and reduce burnout. Additionally, it encourages practices to cease non-contractual services to focus on core patient care.

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Health Prime

APRIL 18, 2024

RCM refers to the process of tracking and managing the financial transactions involved in providing healthcare services to patients. This process starts when a patient schedules an appointment and ends when the provider receives payment for the services rendered. Subscribe to the Health Prime blog.

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Valant

JANUARY 16, 2024

The quality of care for patients remains the north star, but time spent in session is not the primary drain for many clinicians—it’s all the paperwork. Unbillable admin tasks outside of appointment times can eat up a shocking amount of your day. And much of that comes down to your EHR workflow.

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Valant

MAY 2, 2024

Key Components of an Operating Budget Overhead costs are the ongoing expenses required to maintain a practice’s operations, excluding direct patient care costs. EHR systems handle administrative tasks, improve patient care coordination , and simplify compliance. The value an EHR provides outweighs the investment.

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Mildred Elley

MARCH 19, 2025

Medical assistant duties could include helping doctors with medical procedures, preparing patients for x-rays, or simply filing patient medical records. No matter the task, medical assistants are highly trained healthcare professionals who operate both clinically and administratively offering vital patient care.

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Northwest Career College

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

If youve been considering a job in the medical field that is cost-effective and time-saving, this blog might be just for you. Some of the work activities include: Appointment Setting Managed patient records and ensured they were up-to-date. Scheduler: This is organizing appointments and seeing an office running on schedule.

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Northwest Career College

MAY 27, 2024

In addition to properly preparing for upcoming patient visits, you must effectively follow up with patients after their appointments. The goal is to enhance the care and encourage them to return for regular dental visits. This personalized approach can significantly enhance patient satisfaction and retention.

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Northwest Career College

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This blog will present the top five must-have apps for radiography technicians. Shift Planner It is all about organization for radiography technicians since they have to juggle shifts and patient schedules. Shifts Planner is a simple application that tracks working hours, shifts, and appointments.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

These patients may struggle to maintain consistent care if required to attend in-person appointments, potentially leading to interruptions in treatment and medication management. Practices may face administrative challenges, such as potentially restructuring their care delivery models.

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Health Prime

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Encourage your patients to schedule preventative care appointments Increase early assessment and diagnosis, risk reduction, prevention, and management of chronic diseases for people with or at risk of certain conditions. Every patient can go once a year without any medical symptoms for a routine check-up and preventative care.

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Guideway Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This is where an outsourced “care guidance” program and partner become invaluable. The Care Guidance Advantage 1. Bridging the Human-Tech Gap : Optimal patient care involves a human touch that automated technology alone can’t provide. healthcare system. For further insights, you can access the full article here.

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Valant

AUGUST 1, 2024

This level of control allows you to create an environment that reflects your priorities for patient care. You can decide to specialize in certain treatment methods or set up your practice to be more welcoming and accessible to specific patient groups. This can lead to longer wait times for patients.

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Valant

JULY 24, 2024

Progress notes are where you record information about treatments applied and how the patient responds to treatment. The information recorded may include symptoms, medical history, test results, diagnoses, treatment plans, prescription medications, and progress made at appointments. Example SOAP notes are quite flexible. .):

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Note in the chart the emerging trend by 2015 of PCPs emailing with patients and offering after-hours appointments. And, that primary care is a social determinant of health, bolstering public and individual health. PCPs did not coordinate patient care with specialists, other settings of care, and with social service providers.

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Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

Supportive of collective action While collective action is not the same as strike action, it could see GPs prioritising their patients’ needs over local NHS system wants, pulling out of data-sharing agreements or pushing back against NHS England to offer face-to-face appointments as a default. How will you prepare your practice?

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 1, 2023

We may think about patients, patient care, medications, interventions, and hospitals, but justice might seem like the purview of lawyers, legislators, activists, human service agencies, and non-profit organizations. When we reflect on nursing, we don’t always consider the concept of justice.

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Valant

JUNE 19, 2024

Benefits for Patients and Providers Telemedicine offers several advantages: Efficiency: Patients save time by avoiding commutes and waiting rooms, leading to more efficient appointments. Convenience: Patients can schedule appointments at their convenience, sometimes even during non-traditional hours.

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Running a successful medical practice requires more than providing excellent patient care. It demands careful monitoring and analysis of various aspects of your operations. In one of our past blogs, we delved into the end-of-year reports you should run in your practice. Subscribe to the Health Prime blog.

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Health Prime

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Set benchmarks for your medical practice to boost income and enhance patient care. For example, if you find that your patient’s wait times are longer than the benchmark, you can consider optimizing your appointment scheduling system or providing additional staff training to reduce delays.

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Health Prime

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Set benchmarks for your medical practice to boost income and enhance patient care. For example, if you find that your patient’s wait times are longer than the benchmark, you can consider optimizing your appointment scheduling system or providing additional staff training to reduce delays.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Losing Touch In far too many provider-patient encounters, the art of communication is lost, seemingly forgotten in the rush of things to do. Doctors see patients in rushed 15-minute appointments, often without a cursory physical exam. We stare at our computer screens and fail to make eye contact.

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