In today’s world a lot of people are “on the go.” They include: business people who travel regularly, tourists away for weeks at a time, students or researchers away for months, athletes who travel endlessly during their season, snowbirds who live part of the year in southern climates, migrants like farm workers or Indian tribes who live in different…
One of the greatest challenges for hospital and clinic administrators is to reduce costs while their providers deliver better care to their patients. As an administrator running the practice, hospital, or medical facility, you want to help your doctors help their patients. This can be difficult, but we have a solution. There is an application…
The cost of healthcare in the United States is projected to compound at 5.4% annually through 2031. This presents a huge challenge to employers and insurers who provide health insurance to employees. In response, employers are more aggressively seeking new ways to reduce medical costs so they can maintain health benefits for their employees. Healthcare…
A New England-based physician in private practice — we’ll call him Dr. Prince — recently came to us for help. He was frustrated, unfulfilled and exhausted. He has two major problems. First and despite what the government and various medical record vendors claim, he can’t access his patients’ records when he needs them from their other…
As reported in Becker’s Physician Leadership, the recent study “Bad news for private practice physicians” identified that among the many serious problems and issues confronting physicians, burnout is surging front and center. If we don’t solve it, healthcare in the US will fall apart! Even now, it’s not unusual to have to wait months to…
MedKaz® offers a simple but powerful and innovative solution for the interoperability problem in healthcare. It reimagines healthcare by assembling a patient’s complete medical record from all their providers, and the application to manage them, on a MedKaz mini drive the patient owns and carries with them on their key ring. They give it to…
When we are sick, we want doctors to treat our issues as quickly and efficiently as possible. Yet, did you know that your doctors don’t have all the information they need to treat you? This is frustrating, and can lead to delays, cause them to reschedule visits, and waste time and money. The solution is…
The healthcare benefit is one of the most important to employees. If your healthcare benefit is good, it encourages peace of mind and a healthier, happier workplace. It can also help in recruiting new employees because many make employment decisions based on healthcare. As an employer, though, it can cause a lot of headaches. You…
MedKaz provides a simple – but powerful – solution to the interoperability issue in healthcare. Yet, to enjoy its benefits, doctors and patients need to use it. Here’s how to introduce it to your patients: Explain the Benefits Why would a patient want to use MedKaz®? If you let them know how it benefits them,…
Among your many problems treating patients today, you’ll be surprised to learn that you can easily manage perhaps the most intractable one — patient record interoperability — and everyone will benefit when you do! When handled correctly: you and other clinicians can deliver better care, be happier, more efficient and less subject to burnout. your patients…