Leveraging technology to improve the patient experience and the care you provide. Some basic forms of health tech such as electronic medical records are so ubiquitous now that you may take them for granted, but they can significantly streamline the way you deliver care – provided you’re using them to their full potential.
Covid-19 accelerated the adoption of technology within the school system at large — that much is clear to everyone. What isn’t clear, however, is how well that technology managed the vital, human communication necessary for effective education in the absence of face-to-face contact. Read on for what the latest reviewed research says your next communication platform must have to jumpstart a true hybrid education solution for schools and students everywhere — without the panic of a pandemic!
Elsewhere on the blog, we’ve discussed the practical and clinical reasons to suggest that a patient should pause or stop physical therapy in 5 Reasons to Stop PT. However, we haven’t yet considered the darker side of this conversation: what happens when a patient’s behavior makes you and your colleagues feel unsafe? In this article, we’ll discuss several situations in which you may need to terminate a patient and the steps to take in this process.
The increased use of tele-health services during the Covid-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of research on the topic, with some providers, including rehabilitation professionals, questioning its efficacy and feasibility. (1) Today, we’ll delve into the currently available research to consider what telehealth in 2021 can and can’t do for providers and patients in the rehab realm.
Given the important role that home programs play in most rehabilitation specialties, clinicians must seek out strategies to improve patient understanding of their prescribed routines. One such strategy is a teaching technique called errorless learning, or EL.
Research says that we use technology to learn more now than ever before – especially those born from the 1980s onward. (1) So, if your patients are already using technology to learn in school and the workplace, why not apply the same approach to deliver health-related information to them throughout treatment? You can – through a technique known as “microlearning.”
In many ways, the Covid-19 pandemic turned society on its head, and the changes it wrought are the topic of much discussion across nearly all industries. Countless employees began working from home full-time, and they encountered numerous new challenges throughout this transition. It’s not all gloom and doom, however. All this disruption has been a driver for innovation and change. Today, we’ll investigate how the great work from home (WFH) experiment of 2020 changed the way we work, and how rehab providers can embrace these changes to their benefit.
Show us a healthcare provider who enjoys charting, and we’ll show you a unicorn. Do you know how much time you’re really spending on admin work? And – when it’s inevitably too much time – do you know how to accomplish the same tasks in less time to keep work-life balance and avoid burnout?
Patients Prefer Video Instruction Can your patients be more grateful for your care? You betcha! We patients are pretty simple folk. We have only one request: to feel better. Our time in the clinic with you is progress. You relieve our pain through your hands-on manipulations as well as give us support and encouragement. Yet,
There are some physical therapy facts in 2021 that all health-care providers should be aware of when trying to improve their practice. The start of the new year is the perfect time to institute change but these changes should be based on facts and the current state of physical therapy. With the new year
AC Health is the only HIPAA-compliant provider-to-patient platform designed specifically for creating and scaling custom content – from simple text to videos and photos – to support patients between sessions while saving providers 10-20+ hours every week. With an NPS of 91 from thrilled patients, it’s no wonder that providers uploaded 20,000 instructions in the first year alone.
