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Psychiatrists 'pleasantly surprised' with transition to telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More than half the psychiatrists interviewed were exclusively in private practice; the rest of the participants worked in more than two outpatient settings or for nonprofit agencies, community mental health centers, federally qualified health centers, or hospital clinics. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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EHR-Enabled Autonomy: Optimization Strategies for Success

Healthcare IT Today

Before the pandemic, many private practice physicians faced significant pressure to merge or consolidate with large health systems for survival. The following is a guest article by Devan Griner, MD, is board-certified plastic surgeon at Peak Plastic Surgery, based in Provo, Utah. He uses the all-in-one cloud suite from AdvancedMD.

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Improving rural access to radiology services

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Private equity support – cash and operations support – can be critical to rural specialties, especially during mass casualty events, said Dr. Catherine Joyce Everett, a private practice radiologist in North Carolina. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Nextech Supporting the Independent Ambulatory Practice

Healthcare IT Today

Nextech’s EHRs and solutions for practice management and patient engagement software are highly specialized to Dermatology, Med Spa, Opthamology, Orthopedics, and Plastic Surgery in order to make it as efficient as possible. In this video, Lucchini explains how Nextech addresses the pressures of being in private practice today.

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JPMorgan spinoff Kadena puts blockchain on AWS—and on the table for small and medium-sized businesses

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Despite all the hype about blockchain's future in healthcare, it's hard for smaller players like private practices to build such systems themselves. Kadena is aiming to fix that by putting an easy-to-set-up blockchain platform on Amazon Web Services.

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Berry Street Raises $50M to Empower Dietitians to Lead the Charge on America’s Healthcare Crisis

Healthcare IT Today

While nearly two-thirds of Americans are eligible for this insurance-covered nutrition care, this valuable benefit remains extremely underutilized due to the many administrative challenges dietitians face in entering private practice: lengthy and complex insurance enrollment processes, burdensome billing requirements, and outdated software options.

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Mobile patient communication and telehealth tool helps transform Indiana Hernia Center

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The corporate takeover of healthcare and the exodus of physicians from private practice into employed positions, combined with sub-par deployment of electronic health records and patient portals, has resulted in increasing patient and physician dissatisfaction with the current healthcare delivery model, he contended.