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Reminding patients of their scheduled appointment times is vital for a rendering practitioner to keep their business running smoothly. If you have recently invested in a patient appointment scheduling system to streamline the administrative side of your practice but are still seeing a number of missed appointments or people running late, causing disruption in services for others and preventing the doctor from rendering adequate care as well as wasting valuable time and money, you know...

A Healthcare Revolution or Lack Thereof As of 2017, reports indicate that nearly 9 in 10 (86%) of office-based physicians had adopted some form of Electronic Health Record software. This represents a long-awaited shift in healthcare from the safe yet outdated protocols of decades old traditions to a more modern healthcare rooted in technology. One might have suspected that healthcare would be among the first industries to ride the waves of innovation provided by the...

On taking a glance through the official stats as made available by the Australian government, it comes to light that a large portion of the Australian population is above 65 years of age – 15% to be exact, which represents roughly 3.5 million citizens, and that was three years ago, back in  2017. As of 2020, millions of seniors are in need of care, albeit at different levels. Focusing on the digital aspects of senior...