Telehealth and Cybersecurity: What You Should Know
Topic: Telehealth and Cybersecurity: What You Should Know Healthcare providers are seeing between 50 and 175 times (1) more patients via telehealth than before. Telehealth platforms* offer solutions for a wide array of different healthcare issues. An estimated 20 percent of all emergency room visits and...
Dental and Doctors’ Offices Still Struggling With Coronavirus Job Loss
Topic: Dental and Doctors’ Offices Still Struggling With Coronavirus Job Loss California's outpatient health care practices largely shrugged off two recessions, adding more than 400,000 jobs during a two-decade climb from the start of 2000 to early 2020. It was an enviable growth rate of 85%...
Physician Practices Are In Critical Condition Due To Coronavirus
Topic: Physician Practices Are In Critical Condition Due To Coronavirus Traditionally, physicians and healthcare professionals generally have multiple options when seeking employment and determining how they can practice medicine. A few of these options, though not a comprehensive list, include: starting their own private practice, becoming an...
Coronavirus has forced doctors, insurers to embrace telemedicine like never before
Topic: Coronavirus has forced doctors, insurers to embrace telemedicine like never before When pain radiated from Fred Thomas’ neck down his arm and he couldn’t feel his fingers anymore, he knew it was time to talk to a doctor. After getting an MRI ordered by his primary-care...
Demand for plastic surgery is up, even with coronavirus
Topic: Demand for plastic surgery is up, even with coronavirus With stay-at-home orders leaving many bemoaning their webcam appearances, plastic surgeons have seen a rebound in demand for procedures with the reopening of their offices. “Across the country there has been some pent-up demand," said American Society...
How you can help your facial aesthetic patients via virtual consultations
Topic: How you can help your facial aesthetic patients via virtual consultations Lisa Moore looks at how she used virtual consultations to keep up patient communications during lockdown. My background in dentistry. I started out as a dental nurse after A levels, trained as a dental hygienist...
How physician practice reopening is going in 6 states
Topic: How physician practice reopening is going in 6 states Digging their way out of the disruption of COVID-19 pandemic, small medical practices are struggling with a wide range of challenges to their ability to successfully reopen their practices. Shrinking patient volume and challenges accessing personal protective...