In October 2021, Best Buy became the latest company to enter the healthcare marketplace by acquiring Current Health, an at-home medical monitoring technology platform. Forbes, a global news and events source, featured the move in a November 2021 article, interviewing Deborah Di Sanzo, President of Best Buy Health. Di Sanzo discussed the motives behind […]
Many medical practices, whether independent or part of a larger organization, now use social media as an important way to reach the local market. While social media can be a powerful communication tool, care needs to be taken to ensure patient information stays protected. No medical practice wants to find themselves in hot water over […]
In spite of the many challenges and setbacks healthcare has experienced during the pandemic, there are some bright spots as well. Keshav Bhat, OD highlighted how his practice overcame these impediments during the pandemic. Less Paper In the February 2021 issue of Optometric Business Review, Dr. Keshav Bhat revealed some of the ways new technology […]
Find out more about remote patient monitoring – and how it is rapidly growing to deliver benefits for patients and providers alike. What is RPM? Like most forms of telemedicine that have expanded over the pandemic, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has become mainstream. With RPM, Internet-connected patient care equipment is placed in the patient’s home […]
Chatbots, machine learning, cloud technology — what do all of these new features (and many others) mean for patients and for healthcare organizations? In a November Healthcare IT News article, Dr. Rowland Illing, director of international public sector health at Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers up ways that this new tech is being deployed in […]
San Francisco, CA – November 17, 2021 – FormDr, a HIPAA compliant online forms service, today announced a partnership with athenahealth, Inc. through the company’s Marketplace program. As part of the athenahealth® Marketplace, this newly integrated application is now available to athenahealth’s growing network of healthcare providers to offer the ability to send and receive […]
With the FormDr + Dropbox integration, your patient form submission can now be saved directly to your Dropbox account. Dropbox integration seamlessly converts each form submission into a PDF document, then automatically uploads each PDF and any additional file attachments to your Dropbox account. This makes managing your HIPAA compliant online forms even easier. Bulk […]
The telehealth boom sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic has leveled off for now but many rural communities are still not reaping the benefits of telemedicine. One in five Americans live in a rural area. In most of these areas healthcare resources are unevenly distributed, thus creating a shortage of services. Although geographic areas vary widely, […]
COVID-19 has possibly been THE disruptor of our generation – the unnerving period of time we will tell our grandchildren about. There is not one industry COVID hasn’t touched in some way – including, most of all, healthcare. Some of these disruptions are temporary in nature, while others will be around longer, making a permanent […]
At FormDr, we are fixated on saving time for our customers, our customers’ patients and even for ourselves. Afterall, our digital intake forms and form builder were created to make offices run smoothly and more efficiently. Beyond appointment reminders and automatically completing HIPAA compliant forms, we’ve compiled our favorite simple time management tips + how […]