New program delivers health care advice via teleconference
ECHO - it stands for Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes - delivers, via teleconferencing, the best medical advice for health care providers around Texas and parts of Louisiana. After a horrific motorcycle accident in the late '80s, Rocks received a blood transfusion that turned out to be contaminated with hepatitis C - a diagnosis he received in 2012. The physician's assistant at his local clinic, Renita Madu, was able to work with Project ECHO and CHI St. Luke's on a treatment plan and also on a way, with the help of the pharmaceutical company (as drug companies will sometimes do…
5 reasons why women are a driving force in health care social media
Do-It-Yourself Health: How the Maker Movement is Innovating Health Care
Nurses are natural problem solvers. That's why MakerNurse encourages nurses to continue devising their own solutions, then give them the tools to create them.
Hospitals provide much more than health care
Gundersen Health System and Mayo Clinic Health System provide quality medical care to patients.
Organization tips for health care administrators
If you’re thinking about a career as a health care administrator, it’s important that you have good organizational skills.1 Health care administrators are entrusted with the coordination of health and medical services. This encompasses a wide variety of duties, including creating work schedules,...
How to Be An Effective Health Care Advocate
Tips for family caregivers and patients to manage doctor appointments, avoid medication errors, prepare for a hospitalization and organize medical bills.
How Algorithmic Empathy Will Improve Health Care
Health care providers have started using artificially intelligent chat bots to guide patients through intake processes and other functions normally performed by staff. A key challenge to their adoption is maintaining patient engagement with these software robots. It turns out the answer is empathy.
Top 10 Health Care Social Media Tips
Health care social media - What you need to know as a health care provider. A Social Media Guide for Physicians and Medical Practices.
Health care needs new presentation techniques
There are a lot of resources out there on how to improve your presentation.
Why audio-only telehealth is a lifeline to health care
If the alternative is no care at all, access to providers via the telephone will help mitigate disparities, especially for mental health and addiction care.
How to Build Online Engagement With Health Care Communities
Credibility and trust are vital to online health care communities. Find out how health care companies safeguard their credibility and build online engagement.
What obstacles complicate health care for rural Wisconsinites?
‘Medicine On Main Street’ examines the dilemmas of distance and workforce.
How people are helping health care heroes get by
How chaplains are a valuable part of the health care team
Make your voice known that you value chaplains as members of the interdisciplinary team.
How patient expectations for health care providers are increasing
3 things health care providers can do to reduce costs and improve the patient experience.
7 tips for dressing up health care communications
Learn what not to wear to your hospital video shoot.
10 Reasons Why Health Care Is Good Source of IT Jobs
Despite some pitfalls working in the health IT field, health IT professionals are largely pleased with their jobs and the benefits they receive.
5 questions about deploying voice recognition technology in health care
A host of companies and researchers are hoping voice recognition technology can help make doctors' jobs easier and better.
How This Academy Hopes to Address the Health Care Worker Shortage
The course will give health care leaders the education and tools to develop large-scale programs.
How Emergency Medicine Could Serve As An Inspiration To The Health Care Industry
The health care system is anything but patient-centric–except in the emergency room. Design firm Worrell examines how lessons from the ER could better the broader health industry.
