In this interview, CEO of Software Europe, Neil Everatt speaks with Sue Childerstone, Head of Payroll at Northumbria Healthcare Trust on why other NHS organisations should move to a cloud-based Expenses system and away from paper. Neil Everatt: Before taking advantage of cloud technology, your expense claims were done manually – you had upwards of 5,000 claims per month that were all on paper. That’s a lot of pieces of paper to process! Sue Childerstone:...
Dental care is an integral part of the whole health of a person. It goes beyond the pain and discomfort of a cavity or an impacted wisdom tooth; there are a number of indicators for more serious whole-body health conditions, ranging from diabetes to heart conditions, that can be detected at a routine dental exam. While dentists are concerned primarily with a patient’s oral health, a new movement among the profession is to provide overall health...
Are you a student or young professional and challenged to find your path in global health? Are you an established professional who wants to give back to the global health community or look for a young protege that can help you with your research? The Global Health Mentorships Program, which runs from August to December 2017, connects Students and Young Professionals (SYPs) with experienced professionals from different fields within Global Health to facilitate mutually beneficial...
Do you know? Cancer is probably the reason why nearly 2.5 million Indians have sleepless nights. Every year around 7 lakh new cancer patients are registered. Every minute cancer causes one of every 8 women to die out of cervical cancer. Cancer is a disease which occurs due to the abnormal cell growth. Cancer cells begin to divide without stopping and it spreads into the surrounding tissues. It is basically a collection of related diseases....
NHS England has published an update on the Five Year Forward View, outlining what it describes as “a series of practical and realistic steps for the NHS”. In this Q&A, Lyn Whitfield, Highland Marketing’s new content and strategy director, explains why the Next Steps document matters, and what it has to say about healthcare IT. Remind me about the background? NHS England’s chief executive, Simon Stevens, published the Five Year Forward View in October 2014....
88% Of Those Looking For Healthcare Services Start With A Search Engine. That’s 9 out of 10 people! If you are accepting new patients and you don’t have a website or aren’t optimized properly, you’re missing 90% of the market. Online marketing is the #1 way to attract and retain new patients for medical professionals. Having a website that converts visitors to appointments and the ability to be an option, or listed on search engines for...
Listening to people is one of the most important aspects of the communication process; acting on what they say is equally essential, says Mark Venables, CEO and founder of Highland Marketing. This is why we have entered into a partnership with clinically-based health IT consultancy AbedGraham. It’s because we have listened to the market, and understand the importance of embracing clinical views with health IT adoption. Healthcare and communication are uneasy bedfellows. The NHS universe...
The Millennium Alliance is pleased to announce that application for our biannual Digital Healthcare Transformation Assembly is now open! Seats are reserved for the C-Level executives leading the digital healthcare revolution to come together on April 4-5, 2017 at the Renaissance Dallas Hotel in Dallas, TX. With the future of ACA uncertain and increasing consumer concern around drug pricing, healthcare systems and insurance carriers are being forced to respond to new demand rapidly. Businesses across...
The Digital Health Show will bring together key Australian and global healthcare innovators, healthcare providers, policy makers and technology enablers. It will feature two days of high level discussions which look at how technology is redefining healthcare strategies, models of collaboration, lowering costs and dramatically improving patient outcomes. Many would argue that the entire healthcare industry is at a crossroads right now. As healthcare becomes more unaffordable and technology continues to capture public imagination, new...
During the Q&A period after a presentation I gave recently on understanding and preventing physician burnout, a physician in the audience voiced her vehement objections to the current electronic health record (EHR) with a simple statement: “We need a revolution.” In a few words she described her frustrations with the EHR. “It is meaningless—full of fields that we cut and paste from other fields. There are an ever-growing number of pull-down menus and boxes to...
