Tag: practice management

How Expensive is Your Medication?

A recent report on Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) highlights the issue of prescription drug “sticker shock” experienced by patients picking up prescriptions. Without knowing in advance what the prescription would cost, or whether or not it would…

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Can A Healthy Diet Replace Prescription Drugs?

When it comes to illness, diet and lifestyle are often seen as prevention efforts, whereas drugs and medicine are seen as cures. However, recent reports have been suggesting that lifestyle changes, such as changes in diet, can not…

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Counterfeit Drugs: Doctors Discuss Potential Threat

The World Health Organization reported that about 10 percent of all medications in low and middle income countries are substandard or completely fake. These medications can range from vaccines, to cancer drugs, to contraceptives, and WHO estimates…

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Sermo partners with Software Advice

As a world leader in physician market research, Sermo perpetually surveys its online community of doctors on a range of topics. The valuable insights provided by doctors’ contributions to these surveys help inform articles, resources,…

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Being Sued: Just Part of Being a Doctor in the U.S.

The majority of U.S physicians, over 60 percent of American doctors, get sued at some point in their career. Facing a lawsuit can understandably take a heavy toll on doctors: not only can the process…

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What To Do When Patients Can’t Afford Their Copays

“Yet another area where docs are caught in between the devil and the deep blue sea. Not collecting [a copay] upfront and seeing the patient is actually considered Medicare fraud… [but] ethically and medico-legally you…

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How Physicians Can Boost Their Online Reputation

In today’s Internet culture, we rate everything. We rate the restaurants we frequent, we rate the shows we watch, we rate our friends, and we rate our physicians. 80 percent of Americans use the Internet…

Patient Cases

Patient Case: Have You Ever Seen Blue Legs Before?

Share by an Italian doctor specializing in dermatology, allergy & immunology, and rheumatology A 55-year-old patient with heptic cirrhosis with ascites related to HCV comes to the clinic for a year. His legs present a…

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Lack of Awareness Around Telehealth

According to a recent Software Advice survey, patients are very interested in telemedicine and use it as a metric to select their physicians. Software Advice asked 400 patients about their interest in video conferencing as…

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Practice Scheduling: Optimize to Retain & Attract Patients

Learn how to optimize your practice scheduling with technology to improve your practice’s bottom line. Sermo recently worked with Software Advice to survey doctors about wait times at their practices, and analyze the results in…

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