by Smitha Gopal | Apr 6, 2018 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Work-Life Balance
There’s no clear-cut answer, but here are the main pros and cons to each career path Health care experts have been predicting the end of independent practices for years now. And their numbers have continued to drop—a report from the American Medical Association showed...
by Smitha Gopal | Feb 9, 2018 | Practice Pearls, Relating to Your Patients
FDA approves new treatment that restores vision in patients with congenital blindness In December, the FDA made history by approving a gene therapy for a rare inherited eye disease that causes blindness. This is the first gene therapy to be cleared in the U.S. for...
by Smitha Gopal | Nov 22, 2017 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Practice Pearls, Work-Life Balance
As burnout rates and doctor shortages rise, work-life balance issues affect everyone in medicine We would not praise our patients for working long hours, sacrificing sleep, and prioritizing everything else over their own health. Yet that’s exactly what many doctors...
by Smitha Gopal | Nov 3, 2017 | Emerging Technology & Trends
Employee theft is shockingly widespread in health care. How to spot it and stop it. Data breaches in health care are widespread and growing, but cybersecurity isn’t the only threat to medical practices. Embezzlement and theft occur more often in health care than in...
by Smitha Gopal | Sep 22, 2017 | Technology & the Internet
How Internet searches for medical info are improving, and what the future holds for health care A few years ago we ran a post called Should You Be Worried About Dr. Google? In 2017, the question has changed to: Why Haven’t You Embraced Dr. Google? Health-related...
