by Rob Stretch | Sep 17, 2015 | Patient Engagement, Relating to Your Patients, Technology & the Internet
Your website is the door to your practice. It’s also where you want patients to land when searching for providers online. In our increasingly plugged-in society, people now spend more than eight hours a day consuming media. If you manage to get patients and prospects...
by Rob Stretch | Aug 20, 2015 | Patient Engagement
A congestive heart failure (CHF) patient sits in his hospital bed with an iPad, playing a video game. The object of the game is to guide a friendly-looking character named Simon through a series of health-related tasks. Simon is a virtual CHF patient who was recently...
by Rob Stretch | Jul 2, 2015 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Patient Engagement
Research on hospital design has found that elements such as lighting and layout can reduce medical errors, lower stress levels among staff and patients, and promote faster healing with fewer infections, less pain, and reduced reliance on drugs. These benefits can be...
by Rob Stretch | Jun 4, 2015 | Emerging Technology & Trends
Social media and job recruitment have something in common: they’re both about establishing relationships. It makes sense, then, that those looking to recruit doctors for medical practices and hospitals are turning to social media to target prospective candidates. A...
by Rob Stretch | May 21, 2015 | Technology & the Internet
First they tested out live doctor video chats. Now, the world’s biggest search engine is trying something else to better serve people searching for health info online. And that’s a lot of us: health-related research is one of the top three online activities in the...
