healow CHECK-IN

• 6 February, 2024
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If it’s the first week of February, it must be National Patient Recognition Week. It happens to coincide with another popular event this time of year – Groundhog Day. While the duration of winter might be a topic of conversation in line at the coffee shop, another topic that might be top of mind is how we will all maintain our health during the cold and flu season. Not even Pennsylvania’s favorite groundhog weather forecaster, Punxsutawney Phil, has the insight to answer that question for you. eClinicalWorks® (eCW) has a bit of insight for you, though. Midwinter is the perfect time for your practice to reconsider, recalibrate, and rededicate your efforts to care for the people who matter most – your patients.

• 27 September, 2022
• blog

As Aristotle said long ago, “Well begun is half done.” And there’s no better time to put that ancient saying to work than at the start of a new school year.

• 1 February, 2022
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National Patient Recognition Week occurs each year during the first week of February, coinciding with another popular event — Groundhog Day. This year, we imagine that winter’s duration is probably not the first thing on the minds of providers and patients. They’re more likely to be asking how much longer the COVID-19 crisis will last!

• 28 January, 2022
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In the last few years, we have seen dramatic shifts in how patients have interacted with technology and taken control of their own health during a global pandemic.

• 25 January, 2022
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Given the challenges of COVID-19, we are indeed living in turbulent times. From lockdowns and mask mandates to the impact on supply chains and economic growth, societies around the globe are dealing with the kind of crisis most of us have never known.

• 15 December, 2021
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An October 2021 report from Fitch Ratings found that since February 2020 — when the COVID-19 pandemic began — employment in the U.S. healthcare industry has declined by 524,000 positions.

• 18 November, 2021
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While lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., the death rate has steadily declined for more than 30 years, thanks to increased screening, early detection, and improvements in treatment.

• 26 October, 2021
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It’s safe to say that no one knows what to do with 2,314 exabytes of new data. According to statistica.com, that is roughly the amount of new healthcare data generated worldwide in 2020.

• 2 September, 2021
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More than six months after the first reports of coronavirus began to circulate, medical providers across the nation largely adjusted to key changes in their workflows. Those changes include the rise of telehealth, stricter sanitation protocols, and prioritizing care to make the best use of resources.

• 24 August, 2021
• blog

You’ve heard it said you only get one chance to make a first impression. That’s true for things as trivial as trying a new restaurant and as important as meeting your spouse’s family for the first time. In healthcare, first impressions can have a long-lasting impact on patients’ perceptions of your practice — and your bottom line.

• 16 March, 2021
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True invention is hard, but imagine transportation without the wheel, construction without nails, or literacy without the printing press. Each of those things was built on moments of inspiration, years of effort, and the slow accumulation of technology and knowledge. And the path to today’s technology-rich world is a very long one indeed, stretching from the alchemists of the Middle Ages to Benjamin Franklin’s kite to the integrated circuit.

• 25 February, 2021
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As soon as the scale and seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic became clear in early 2020, talk began to focus on the challenges of developing vaccines. The past year has seen an unprecedented effort to develop and deploy safe and effective vaccines to control a virus that has now claimed 2.5 million lives worldwide — and more than 500,000 in the U.S. alone.