by Michael Sopher | Dec 3, 2015 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Practice Pearls, Relating to Your Patients
In the U.S., with a population of 300 million, patients undergo around 15 million nuclear medicine scans, 100 million CT and MRI scans, and almost 10 billion laboratory tests each year. “Often, these are fishing expeditions,” writes Atul Gawande, New Yorker staff...
by jsopher | Nov 19, 2015 | Relating to Your Patients, Technology & the Internet
Interest and advances in genetic testing are booming. A recent study published in the journal Public Health Genomics showed that 6 out of 10 Americans are interested in genetic testing. Today, genetic testing is available for over 2000 rare and common...
by Smitha Gopal | Nov 12, 2015 | Patient Engagement, Relating to Your Patients
Informed consent is a routine part of health care, yet it is one of the most misunderstood concepts even among experienced doctors, reports the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). What informed consent is not: just having patients sign a form. What informed...
by Smitha Gopal | Oct 29, 2015 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Patient Engagement, Relating to Your Patients
Any doctor faces the possibility of a malpractice lawsuit at any time. It’s not an irrational fear, it’s a fact: a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that an estimated 75 percent of physicians in low-risk specialties such as pediatrics and a...
by Luke Demers | Oct 16, 2015 | Marketing Your Practice, Relating to Your Patients
Our rallying cry for this major update has been to make Echo easy: easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to incorporate into your workflow. A More Beautiful Way to Echo To make Echo easy on the eyes, we redesigned the main interface, and reduced the number of different...
