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Blogging in healthcare: The power of instant communication

Tannus Quatre PT, MBA — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:30:56 +0000

Blogging can (and should) be considered a powerful strategy used for marketing, publicity, and even damage control for an organization who’s stakeholders exist online. For small private practices and large healthcare organizations alike, the power of blogging to reach an audience is often underestimated. The article below from Health Leaders Media does a great job of outlining the benefits of a blogging strategy for healthcare providers, as well as some tips on who and how…

“I sincerely have someone in my corner”

Angie Kooistra — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:30:05 +0000

“Their communication style along with a personable and genuine demeanor conveyed such a sense of support that I hung up the phone feeling as though I sincerely had someone “in my corner” rooting for me and the future success of my private practice.

Kathy Gurland, LCSW
Owner
PEG’s Group
Brooklyn, NY

Email in medical care: Starting to catch on?

Tannus Quatre PT, MBA — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:52:55 +0000

On April 23rd I wrote about the benefits of using email in physician-patient communication, and how trends in this area are inevitably going to change the standards of communication in years to come. I’ve also written about Dr. Jay Parkinson and the company, Myca, who are pushing the use of technology to improve the efficiency…

Change Management Key to EMR Implementation

Kyle Fleischmann, PT, MS, OCS — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:25:43 +0000

I have assisted with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) roll-out into a number of small to medium sized healthcare clinics. Careful planning and management of these projects is important for successful EMR implementation and seems to become even more critical as the number of employees in a practice rises. I came face-to-face with this recently as I assisted with the implementation of an IT infrastructure and a software package into a 7 physician practice with 33 employees. Planning, management, and communication at all…

“Virtualization” of physician communications

Tannus Quatre PT, MBA — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:44:02 +0000

I’ve had the pleasure to speak with Jay Parkinson, MD about his innovative business model which takes a revolutionary approach to medical communications between physicians and patients through Myca, a company for which he is the Chief Medical Officer. I’m excited about the concept of “virtualizing” physician communication, and think the 5 minute video below does a great job of speaking to the benefits of such a world.

Email: The new frontier in physician-patient communication?

Tannus Quatre PT, MBA — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:58:37 +0000

For many of us, email has become a primary means of building relationships, conducting business, and keeping in touch. It is very effective in doing so, and while it isn’t a full replacement for phone and face-to-face interaction, it does provide a very efficient means by which to communicate.

In business, email has another important benefit; it provides a document trail that can be used to record activity and conversation, creating a transcript of all…

Video communication between patient and physician

Tannus Quatre PT, MBA — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:42:19 +0000

I’ve been reading more in the press about the use of remote technologies used by physicians to communicate and monitor patients. The technology exists, so using it for this purpose makes perfect sense. I’ve even learned of some companies building this type of technology into their core business models which I believe to be a very exciting development in medical care (more on that in a future post).

In this post from Peter Lucash at…