Author: Rachana Suraiya

  • Want to know the secret to more Revenue? Empower your patients- Part II

    In the developed markets the usage of Patient Portal has gone beyond being vitamins to becoming painkillers. Rather than being used as an optional information display tool, it is now being used to cut waiting times and maximize the use of consulting hours for the Clinicians. Primary as well as Aesthetics and even Ancillary Clinics…

  • 5 MUST HAVE features in your In-House Lab Management Software

    It is common for Clinics to offer Lab services to Patients. More often than not, Labs are externally outsourced by the Clinic, with only the sample collection being done at the clinic. This has a significant impact on the patient experience. They get a 1-window service for Consultation, Billing, Sample Collection, Lab Results, and Report…

  • Want to know the secret to more Revenue? Empower your patients- Part I

    Here in this article, you will get to know about a feature that has the capability to revolutionize the way the healthcare industry works- Patient Portal. Willing to explore more about what this is? Well, here you go! Patient Portal is a website on which your patients can log in to view their medical records…

  • How EMR can provide clinics with just the solution they need

    Here, in this article, you will get to know a Doctor’s take on how an EMR can help clinics bolster their productivity. Dr. Ogo, a respected practitioner and CEO of Kidney Solutions Limited in Nigeria, has shared his views on EMR and its impact on clinics as follows: The electronic medical record (EMR) is a…

  • How Goliath lost to David in race to the best Clinic Management solution- Part IV

    [Guest post by clinicea – cloud software for clinic management] Rather than EMR + PMS, growing Clinic Chains needed a platform, that had a much wider surface area – that can execute complex scheduling for not just Physicians, but also Therapists, Consult Rooms, and Portable Equipment. Systems were needed that had highly specialised EMRs which…

  • How Goliath lost to David in race to the best Clinic Management solution- Part III

    In Part II of How Goliath lost to David in the race for the best Clinic Management solution, you saw how clinic management solution providers in India compromised on their pricing to get hold of the market. While those companies would eventually falter, and such plans would eventually reveal to the riders that your data can…

  • How Goliath lost to David in race to the best Clinic Management Solution- Part II

    The Indian market simply by virtue of coming late to the party had skipped through the perils, cost, and complexity of integration, and benefited with full-bodied unified products that were far more cost-effective and simple. However, India faced its own set of challenges, as EMR remained largely the stepson, with companies gravitating towards appointment booking,…

  • How Goliath lost to David in race to the best Clinic Management Solution- Part I

    An EMR (Electronic Medical Record) is software that you as a Physician would use to prescribe medications, order investigations, schedule follow-ups, write medical certificates and more. However, an EMR is not to be confused with only prescription writing software. It does help with prescription writing, but that is only a subset of what it can…

  • Brand vs Generic? Why not have both

    [Guest post by clinicea – cloud software for clinic management] In India, a lot of news is being made about the changed regulation, which makes it mandatory for Practitioners to put the name of Generics on prescriptions and not Brands. Contradictory media reports are not of much help. In this article, I will take you…

  • Being on a Cloud EMR, makes me safe. You are wrong!

    Being on Cloud EMR is better than being on a Web EMR, and even better than using a desktop EMR. However just because you are on the Cloud does not make you safe. This article will get your hands dirty and go a little deep and technical. However, if you stay with me all the…