Among all other translation services the most difficult one is medical translation services. The responsibilities and duties of medical translators are more in comparison to other translators. They only need to use correct medical terminology and culturally sensitive language to express the precise meanings of medical documents. It is their responsibility to ensure that the instructions, term and information in the source documents are converted...more
Medical IT solutions have become a new success mantra for the medical industry. The need for advanced IT solutions is on the persistent rise due to the rising pressure for want of better productivity, improved quality of patient service and increase in ROI (return on investment) for the practice. Newer medical procedures are introduced to the industry from time to time that requires advanced medical IT solutions to deliver optimum results. Due to...more
When many people think of an air ambulance, the image that springs to mind is of a helicopter swooping down at the site of a serious accident. Indeed, emergency medical personnel may call for a helicopter over a ground ambulance if the patient has a life-threatening injury and needs to get to a trauma center very quickly and the nearest trauma center is far away, traffic is congested, the patient requires a higher level of care at the scene and en route (e.g. a flight nurse), and/or if there are multiple patients and the nearest trauma center can't handle all of them.On the other hand, there are certainly emergency situations in which the fire department or emergency medical service will send a ground ambulance rather than a helicopter as when the location (of the patient and the hospital) and traffic conditions are such that the ground ambulance can get the patient to treatment before the air ambulance might even have taken off.But ground ambulance and helicopter air ambulances arent the only form of medical transport. And air ambulances arent just used to save car crash victims, rescue trapped hikers, or respond to mass casualty incidents. Often, air ambulances are used to move...more
You may not think that you need a medical answering service to field calls to your office. There was a time when doctors practiced medicine without even as much as a telephone, too, but with the advent of every new technology, opportunities arise to render more efficient service. The type of service we're talking about in this article is just such...more
There are a number of factors that go into determining what makes a great medical call center. The most important of those factors is that the business must hire the right kinds of employees. Such a person needs to have the same pleasant attitude dealing with people on the phone that you would expect your front office personnel to have. Therefore,...more
Though providing efficient patient care is primary for a health care practice, proper AR management is crucial when it comes to keeping it afloat. Busy physician practices rarely have the time to manage their own financials and are increasingly outsourcing the work to medical billing service providers. Professional medical billing AR management services help improve cash flow and increase the profitability of the practice. Competent Medical Billing Services Health care practices could lose a lot of money because on unpaid claims. Insurance companies reimburse only bills that are submitted in the proper format. Billing and coding errors result in non-payment, adding to the accounts receivable of the practice. A medical billing company can help avoid these issues and ensure that the medical practice maximizes its revenue. Services provided by a reliable outsourcing company include Patient enrollment: All demographic and insurance information is checked to ensure that it is entered in correctly and in the proper formatInsurance verification: This involves obtaining the patient's insurance details by calling the insurance payer or through online verification. All details are verified:...more
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes, a quote by Norman Douglas, British writer, best known for his novel south wind. Transformation through education brings myriad changes in the society which in turn benefits the future...more
If you are considering entering the medical transcription field, you should probably start preparing yourself for industry standard credentialing right away. For the uninformed, the leading professional society of medical transcriptionists called the...more
Should technology be the only source for recording personal medical history? With fallible mistakes of human error its beneficial. Keep appointments and visits in a My Medical History journal with all personal medical records.The journal is...more
There might be several incidents where you or your loved one might have faced a grave medical situation because of the negligence of the doctor, a nurse, pharmacist or any other medical practitioner. Such a situation would fall under the category of...more
The reasons for employers to consider medical tourism for their employees are being stated.There are many employers who offer medical facilities to their employees. Increasing costs of treatments has left the employers with only one bright option of...more
Utmost precision is all what matters for surgeons and dentists in their operating field. In the midst of a delicate operation or procedure application of effective and quality surgical headlight can bring out positive outcomes. Proper lighting is...more