How to improve your patient experience by having everything digitalized & connected!

By Lana Bawaneh

Many, if not all of us, have experienced the hassles of going to hospitals or medical centres. The healthcare sector is one of the most complicated sectors because it has a lot of departments or entities that are related to each other; when describing the healthcare sector, we are talking about a hospital, medical centre, clinic, polyclinic, pharmacy, lab, radiology, or it could be a combination of some or all of them.

It is very important to develop software applications or systems that support healthcare services to provide the best medical treatment. The problem here is that some of the medical institutions have one or few of their entities switched to digital processes, while the other entities are still handling their processes manually.

The impacts of medical coding on healthcare systems

By Cesilia Faustina

Medical coding is a crucial part of the healthcare billing system. It works to ensure that the whole billing process is accurate, and reimbursements are taken care of.

Thanks to the handy tool that is medical coding, hospitals and other healthcare institutions can easily exchange data and accurately create insurance claims and bills for patients. In fact, medical codes are extremely needed in order to successfully provide the right services.

It starts with taking a description of the disease, injury, etc. and then transforming them into numeric or alphanumeric codes to accurately describe the diagnosis. So, these symbols are very important to uphold, especially when it comes to digitalization.

5 factors encouraging pharmacies to utilize pharmacy information systems

By Omar Abdul-Hafiz

Generally speaking, Healthcare Information Systems have brought numerous benefits to the healthcare sector. From streamlined data analytics to cost control, these systems turn all the operations that were once manual and time-consuming into automated and fully organized hassle-free procedures.

But more specifically, let us talk a little about Pharmacy Information Systems. According to experts, Pharmacy Information Systems (PIS) have been highly effective in facilitating pharmacists’ tasks in managing the medication process.

What to expect from healthcare technology in these current times

By Cesilia Faustina

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been huge pressure on the healthcare sector to handle huge intakes of patients and demands for healthcare products and services. This obviously has not been easy for healthcare providers, hospitals in particular, but it has shown some great utilization for the health tech sector though.

The coronavirus is changing the way we understand the world, and the way healthcare is operating. Society is coming to terms with the fact that coronavirus is here to stay and are slowly adapting to the new normal. One prominent way communities are handling this new normal is with the implementation of technology.