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| 01.11.2024 | ReferralMD Named to AVIA Marketplace's 2024 Top Conversational AI Companies | ReferralMD, a leader in healthcare technology, has been recognized as a 2024 Top Company in Conversational AI by AVIA Marketplace, the foremost digital health marketplace. This recognition follows extensive industry research and highlights ... |
| 10.09.2021 | Chatbots in Healthcare: A More Humanized, Patient-Oriented Approach | Bent Philipson, Founder of Philosophy Care
The adoption of chatbots and virtual assistants, coupled with the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, has revolutionized the healthcare industry. In many ways, c... |
| 20.04.2021 | ReferralMD Enhances Healthcare PRM/CRM Solution | ReferralMD continues to improve its market-leading platform for referral coordinators and healthcare marketing professionals.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (PRWEB) April 20, 2021
ReferralMD, the leader in referral management and patient communications, ... |
| 01.02.2021 | Why Telemedicine Is Much More Than A Digital Doctor’s Office | getty |
| 06.05.2020 | Early adopter or cautious company: How to determine when to begin using AI at your organization | More must-read AI coverage
NVIDIA moves to front of the AI pack
AI investments soared in 2021, but big problems remain
Forrester: AI may be used to enhance enterprise creativity
4 automation-focused IT careers on the rise (TechRepublic Prem... |
| 03.04.2020 | Physical vs Digital Health: What You Need to Know About Privacy and HealthTech | In November of 2019, news broke around Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit continuing the search giant’s push into the health market. Here is physical versus digital health and what you need to know about privacy and healthtech.
In ... |
| 15.01.2018 | 4 Industries We’re Excited To See Develop On The Blockchain | Share
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Believe it or not, the blockchain boom is still in its infancy. While it’s true that ICOs alone surpassed $3.7 billion in funding last year (Coinschedule), even if investment slows this technology has the poten... |
| 25.01.2017 | What startup ideas are brewing at Cedars-Sinai Accelerator? | On the cusp of kicking off its second cohort of health IT startups, Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, a collaboration with the Los Angeles-based health system and Techstars, named the eight startups taking part, whittled down from a pool of 650 app... |
| 25.01.2017 | Cedars-Sinai + Techstars Healthcare Accelerator Unveils Second Class of 8 Digital Health Startups | Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, in partnership with Cedars-Sinai, today announced that 8 companies have been selected to participate in its second class. From artificial intelligence to new devices and disruptive services, these innovativ... |
| 17.03.2015 | The Shocking Truth about Medical Malpractice [INFOGRAPHIC] referralMD | Identifying the Motivating Factors for Malpractice
In this age of phenomenal technological innovations and highly successful treatments and cures, why is it that we, the patients, are so dissatisfied with our health care to such a degree we... |
| 13.02.2015 | 10 Biggest Innovations in Health Care Technology in 2015 | referralMD | These miniature robots would function like their full-size equivalents with their own sensors, and propulsion systems and could perform small tasks like delivering chemotherapy 1000 times more powerful than using drugs and would not cause a... |
| 22.01.2015 | How to Build a High-Performing Physician Referral Network from Scratch | Grow Your Clinic’s Business & Become a Public Hero
By creating this strategic medical network to serve both clinics and your patients, you’ll make each other look like heroes in the eyes of your patients – growing your non-professional ... |
| 06.10.2014 | Urgent Consult wants to overhaul physician referrals | Urgent Care’s own research found that 24 million patients referred to a specialist don’t get an appointment. Specialists frequently don’t receive patient medical histories, prompting them to order tests the patients may already have had.
Th... |
| 28.03.2014 | The 8 Best Ways to Market Your Healthcare Facility and Stand Out Online | 70% of consumers say that feedback about a product or service they find online is the #2 factor in deciding whether or not to do business with that practice. It is time to ensure your practice is listed in the right places with the most upd... |
| 20.03.2014 | How to reduce patient referral leakage [INFOGRAPHIC] | 2. Referral Rates have Increased
Physician referral rates have been steadily increasing but only 35-45% of referrals for adult inpatient care, as measured by revenue, go to a partner hospital. Hospital organizations need to maintain, captur... |
| 24.02.2014 | Millennials and Healthcare: 3 Tips to Reach Young, Stubborn Patients | As the Pew Center points out, this hyper-connected behavior is a double edged sword — on the one hand, millennial patients have the resources to be their most empowered and informed. The problem? These young information-seekers risk falling... |
| 09.12.2013 | 6 Need to Know Apps for Healthcare Professionals in 2013 [INFOGRAPHIC] | Here are some of the most important healthcare related apps to date, what problem they’re helping medical professionals address and why their solution is the answer to existing issues in the industry. 1. Medscape
Medscape is an app built by... |
| 03.12.2013 | How Would You Fix Healthcare? – Q & A from Other Healthcare Professionals | I am a Canadian living in the U.S. The greatest problem in the U.S. healthcare system is totally unequal access to its benefits: students, the unemployed and those who cannot afford to buy insurance individually (it can easily cost $300 to ... |
| 02.12.2013 | 11 Reasons Why our Healthcare System is So M@#!&d Up | If you can’t afford a cell phone, you can’t bust up into a Sprint store and demand to see Dan Hesse the CEO. But in healthcare, if you think you need care, regardless of actual physical acuity (severity), you can go to a hospital and they h... |
| 21.11.2013 | 24 Outstanding Statistics & Figures on How Social Media has Impacted the Health Care Industry | Social media is one of the most talked about disruptions to marketing in decades, but how is it impactful for the health care industry? In a generation that is more likely to go online to answer general health questions then ask a doctor, w... |
| 20.11.2013 | The 6 biggest innovations in health care technology in 2013 | Everything from new artificial hearts to electronic aspirin, the healthcare industry is slowly but surely becoming more agile, effective and cost-effective for patients looking for care.
Of the many disruptions reaching the masses this year... |
| 19.11.2013 | 7 Surprising Reasons Why Your Medical Staff is Unhappy – [INFOGRAPHIC] | Being happy at your job is a lot more than the money factor. (although getting paid more does make it easier look the other way when problems arise) Happiness directly correlates to performance on the job and how long your staff stays with ... |
| 08.11.2013 | Why is the Patient Portal Failing to Gain Traction Among Patients and Doctors? | Patients have no interest
The reason why most patients do not want to use their patient portal is because they see no value in it, they are just not interested.
The portals do not properly incentivize the patient either intellectually (prov... |
| 30.10.2013 | What’s the one HealthCare.gov question Sebelius has to answer today? | “…do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?”
– Roy J. Orr, Business Development and Supply Chain Services at Salem Health
“Why are so many claims that were made before the ACA was passed not true?” Specifica... |
| 22.10.2013 | What Craigslist can tell us about the future of health IT startups and the EMR market | Similarly, in health IT, electronic medical records companies have so far tried to be the jack of all trades that do a bunch of things, like manage clinical data, patient communication, scheduling, billing, referrals and population health, ... |
| 23.07.2013 | Making physician referrals more efficient has become a launch pad for health IT startups | Infina certainly isn’t the only health startup that’s starting in the physician referral space, although each company seems to approach it from a slightly different angle. eLuminate Health, for example, positions itself as more of a transpa... |
| 21.05.2013 | Another 11 Reasons Why Our Health Care System Is Broken | Completely fed up with the current health care system, Joanthan Govette, Founder of Referral MD shares 11 reasons why our health care system is broken.
If you have met me personally, I have been known to cuss a few times in my life, not as ... |
| 21.05.2013 | Meet the winners in our Grand Rounds innovation showdown: Beyond Lucid and Liviam | If there’s one thing the health care industry needs, it’s technology innovation that’s actually usable for both doctors and patients.
To help identify the next generation of industry-changing innovations, VentureBeat’s HealthBeat conference... |
| 21.05.2013 | Meet the winners in our Grand Rounds innovation showdown: Beyond Lucid and Liviam | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If there’s one thing the health care industry nee... |
| 10.05.2013 | Meet the 10 startups competing in the HealthBeat ‘Innovation Showdown’ | We’re blown away by the quality of the more than 150 applicants to the HealthBeat 2013 “Grand Rounds Innovation Showdown,” one of the highlights of VentureBeat’s inaugural health tech conference (May 20-21 in San Francisco).
We asked startu... |
| 15.03.2013 | Physician referrals in 2013 shouldn’t involve faxes & spreadsheets, health IT startup reasons | Nearly one in 10 physician visits result in referrals to other physicians. Despite the advent of EMRs, for many doctors offices, processing and managing those referrals still involves faxing paperwork and manually punching information into ... |
| - | 24 Outstanding Statistics & Figures on How Social Media has Impacted the Health Care Industry | Social media is one of the most talked about disruptions to marketing in decades, but how is it impactful for the health care industry? In a generation that is more likely to go online to answer general health questions then ask a doctor, w... |
| - | Making physician referrals more efficient has become a launch pad for health IT startups | Here’s a stat I’ve heard entrepreneurs cite more times than I can count over the past year: The average physician refers to 229 other physicians, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
The rise of accountable care or... |
| - | 6 Need to Know Apps for Healthcare Professionals in 2013 [INFOGRAPHIC] | It is important to always be on the cutting-edge of your industry to push yourself as a professional and offer the absolute best services you possible can to your patients, partners and staff. The entire healthcare industry is being disrupt... |
| - | The 6 biggest innovations in health care technology in 2013 | This year we’ve witnessed amazing innovations in technology with everything from wearable tech like Google Glass or Nike+ to the recent introduction of Coin, one card that stores all your credit cards, debit cards, personal accounts, busine... |
| - | Millennials and Healthcare: 3 Tips to Reach Young, Stubborn Patients | Twenty-somethings can be a tough crowd to please. They’re glued to their smartphones, opinionated, and entirely dependent on technology. When facing an illness, they’ll jump head-first into the information-abyss of a Google search. By the t... |
| - | Urgent Consult wants to overhaul physician referrals | Urgent Consult Demo Video from Urgent Consult on Vimeo.
The physician referral process is undermined by communication gaps and is in need of an overhaul. Blueprint Health accelerator grad Urgent Consult thinks it’s developed a way to improv... |
| - | The 8 Best Ways to Market Your Healthcare Facility and Stand Out Online | Your practice, whether you are a physician, dentist, ophthalmologist or what have you, is in constant competition with other healthcare professionals in your local area when it comes to attracting patients online. How can your practice stan... |
| - | What startup ideas are brewing at Cedars-Sinai Accelerator? | On the cusp of kicking off its second cohort of health IT startups, Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, a collaboration with the Los Angeles-based health system and Techstars, named the eight startups taking part, whittled down from a pool of 650 app... |
| - | What Craigslist can tell us about the future of health IT startups and the EMR market | Courtesy of: referralMD
While healthcare payments get bundled, the EMR industry appears to be coming unbundled.
Brian Manning, the director of strategic sales at ZocDoc, pointed out in a recent blog post that the same phenomenon happening t... |
| - | Why is the Patient Portal Failing to Gain Traction Among Patients and Doctors? | Patient engagement is all the rage now days; almost every healthcare facility is implementing or planning to implement some form of a patient portal to meet the needs of meaningful use.
This sounds nice but,
Here is the problem, well severa... |
| - | What’s the one HealthCare.gov question Sebelius has to answer today? | Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius faces the House Energy and Commerce Committee this morning at 10. It will be painful to watch or a good bit of sport, depending on your opinion of the Affordable Care Act.
Wonder if she ... |
| - | 7 Surprising Reasons Why Your Medical Staff is Unhappy – [INFOGRAPHIC] | Being happy at your job is a lot more than the money factor. (although getting paid more does make it easier look the other way when problems arise) Happiness directly correlates to performance on the job and how long your staff stays with ... |
| - | How to reduce patient referral leakage [INFOGRAPHIC] | Article by: referralMD – Patient referrals are an integral revenue generator for every hospital, clinic and caregiver. Yet most facilities require the patient to hand-deliver referrals and do not adequate track the originating provider of s... |
| - | How Would You Fix Healthcare? – Q & A from Other Healthcare Professionals | We asked our readers “What would you change about healthcare?”
And received many great responses, feel free to add your own in the comment section below:
I am a Canadian living in the U.S. The greatest problem in the U.S. healthcare system ... |
| - | 11 Reasons Why our Healthcare System is So M@#!&d Up | Pardon the expletives, I have been wanting to share some thoughts and frustrations about healthcare that I have seen arise over the last few years.
The United States healthcare system is completely broken; it has become a huge money pit, wi... |
| - | Physician referrals in 2013 shouldn’t involve faxes & spreadsheets, health IT startup reasons | Nearly one in 10 physician visits result in referrals to other physicians. Despite the advent of EMRs, for many doctors offices, processing and managing those referrals still involves faxing paperwork and manually punching information into ... |
| - | The Shocking Truth about Medical Malpractice [INFOGRAPHIC] referralMD | We are presently in the midst of another medical malpractice insurance crisis, not unlike the crisis that occurred in the late 1970s. The availability of medical malpractice insurance is diminishing; insurance premiums are soaring; insuranc... |
| - | How to Build a High-Performing Physician Referral Network from Scratch | Possibly the most efficient and cost-effective marketing and business development strategies rolled into one, referrals from other doctors or health-related professionals can become the solid backbone of your business development strategy i... |
| - | 10 Biggest Innovations in Health Care Technology in 2015 | referralMD | A new year is upon us and we are already seeing amazing advancements in healthcare technology, everything from enterprise cloud software to nanobots. Is healthcare finally catching up with the times?
New startups and fortune 500 companies a... |
