Risks and Rewards of EHR Portals
As technology continues to grow at a rapid pace, EHR portals have become the new standard in many healthcare facilities. An EHR portal or Electronic Health Record is designed to replace the traditional chart. This paperless alternative is being implemented in the majority of practices. Like any new technology, EHR portals come with both risk and rewards, so it’s time to break down the new technology that could make its way into your...
Voice Assistant Healthcare | Paging Dr. Google?
By now we’ve all seen the rise of home assistants like Amazon Echo, Google Home, Siri, and plenty more to come. These small computer modules are gaining intelligence and slowly working their way into the fabric of the daily consumer’s life, leisure, and now their health. One day soon, it’s a likelihood that voice activated technologies will be working alongside doctors as a means of collecting and analyzing patient audio for greater...
The Fight for ‘Clean’ Hand Hygiene
As a traveling physician, you know it is important to encourage your patients to practice the correct hand washing technique. However, as a travel physician, you might be aware of the age-old battle between using paper towels or hand dryers. Funded studies have looked into both sides of the hand hygiene battle. On one hand, you have researchers telling you that paper towels are just sopping wet lumps of germs! On the other side of the...
5 Healthcare Changes We Could See Right Now
It’s been the biggest question asked for the last few weeks now. No, not “who is going to win the Super Bowl?” What many are currently asking is, “what Healthcare changes can we expect with Trump’s presidency?” That’s it, the million-dollar question or really, the multi-billion dollar question. With President Trump now firmly seated in office, we can expect a variety of healthcare changes to occur during his presidency. While Trump...
HPV Prevention for Men Needs to Be a Priority
A new study has suggested that HPV prevention for men needs to be a focal point in preventing sexually transmitted diseases. Though the prevalence of HPV in men and women are the same (45 percent), for women, as they get older the HPV infection rate drops to about 22 percent. However, that is not the case for men. Lead researcher Dr. Jasmine Han said, “We don’t know why it stays high in men while it drops in women. It’s higher than...