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Field Service Management: Safety and Compliance
Safety – arguably one of the world’s most boring topics. Ask anyone who’s not a new parent or human resources professional about safety, and their eyes will likely glaze over. We all know that safety is important , but let’s be real: how many times do you actually listen to the safety announcements on your…
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3 Ways to Incorporate A/B Testing Into Your Recruitment Marketing Strategy
If you’ve spent an appreciable amount of time in recruiting, you’ve likely heard on more than one occasion that “recruiting is marketing.” This is an oversimplification, but it makes a good point. If marketing boils down to an attempt to get consumers interested in and buying a company’s products, then recruiting shares a similar mission…
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HIPAA-Compliant Software That Will Streamline Workflow
How can healthcare professionals get more done in less time? The answer: a good workflow solution. For most organizations, technology, more notably, SaaS (software as a service) technology, has changed the way work gets done. It’s now the norm for organizations to strive for an uninterrupted workflow. And a workflow that utilizes SaaS products is…
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Invoice Factoring Can Ease Your Cash Flow and Streamline Accounting
A recommended tip by consultant firm McKinsey is that firms must “cast a wider net for new efficiency opportunities,” going beyond mere transactional activities. This tip is a timely reminder for business owners with different financial stress points, including business owners who wait for clients to pay their outstanding invoices while the creditor calls hourly.…
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Five Considerations for Adopting Decentralized Clinical Trials
While decentralized clinical trials (DCT) capabilities have been quietly evolving for a few years, it was really the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic that forced the biopharmaceutical industry’s hand in expanding the adoption of DCT. As the virus caused clinical research sites to shutter operations, organizations quickly turned to DCT as a necessary pathway to…
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No PTO? No, Thank You.
Survey finds 60 percent of employees will reject a job offer without paid time off With the vacation season upon us, it’s stirring the need to peregrinate, even among the most faithful homebodies. With the changing nature of the workplace and constant connectivity, it may be worth the time to rethink your business’ paid time…
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6 Things to Consider Before Putting Charts Into a Dashboard
Anyone who’s ever driven a car knows the role of the dashboard: provide you the most critical data you need right now for the task at hand, and nothing else. The dashboard metaphor has also taken hold in business applications. Instead of displaying the car’s status, it displays data generated from business activities, marketing surveys,…
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Solving QA Challenges in Healthcare Apps
Think about anything you’d like to do, and it is likely there’s already an app for that. From banking to e-commerce and entertainment industries, there are apps that cover a vast range of services we use daily. Healthcare has also started to introduce mobile platforms across the care delivery cycle, creating a voluminous medical app…
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Why Streamlining Appointment Scheduling Is a Win-Win for Patients and Clinicians
Care coordination between patients and providers is oftentimes initiated at the appointment desk. The amount of interactions and frequency between patients and physicians can create a storm of poor communication and care. Introducing an imperfect or overly complex scheduling system can lead to breakdowns in communication. The cost of insufficient care coordination can quickly snowball…
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Making the Transition to Telehealth: What You Need to Know
The world of healthcare is always evolving, but the COVID-19 global pandemic has forced the industry to adapt to certain changes at a faster pace than usual. Healthcare facilities that weren’t using telehealth services had to implement them almost overnight. The good news is that telehealth services offer benefits to both the patient and provider…
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6 Ways to Find Efficiency in Your Field Service Organization
Compared to other business models, running a field service organization can be especially challenging. In addition to the marketing, customer service and administration tasks involved with running a business, you also need to manage field service technicians, keep track of schedules and equipment and ensure your organization continues to deliver fast, efficient and effective service…
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5 Steps To A Successful ATS Implementation
Implementing an applicant tracking system is no small feat. Applicant tracking systems (ATS) have the potential to help your company scale while cutting costs. The larger an org is, the more challenging implementing an ATS becomes. While the challenge might seem great, the rewards far outweigh the pains. As anyone who has undergone an ATS…
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SCORM Is Dead. Here’s Why Tin Can LMS Is The Future
Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), is a protocol that enables two elearning tools to communicate with each other. In the elearning industry, this kind of tool is a necessity because it connects course developers, different platforms, and learners. Although SCORM holds the reputation of the gold standard in eLearning, it has manifested a series…
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Are Cloud-Based EHRs the Solution to Interoperability?
Guest contribution from Tom Giannulli, MD, MS, Chief Medical Information Office at Kareo. EHR interoperability has been one of the key concepts behind the Meaningful Use program, but recently concerns have been raised that all EHRs should be required to offer simple user controlled interoperability. This would allow all interested parties to exchange data without…
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How Can Providers Use Wearable Technology to Improve Patient Care?
This is a guest post from Tom Giannulli, MD, MS, the Chief Medical Information Officer at Kareo. _____ It seems like everywhere you look you see someone with a wearable health tracker like a fitbit or (forthcoming) Apple Watch. According to a recent survey conducted by TechnologyAdvice, one quarter of adults are now using either…