How has social media affected medical literacy in the Philippines? Filipinos are the world’s top users of social media and this has been the case for the past four years
Of the 100-million subspecialist referrals each year, only around half of these are actually completed. This has become an increasingly dire situation for healthcare.
Transitioning to paperless documentation is a difficult process in light of HIPAA standards. The process of storing information does not end after having converted these to digital EMRs. Rather, HIPAA continues and provides for a new set of rules in keeping these documents. There are two considerations: (1) the legal requirements of retention time and (2) the method of data creation and destruction.
Becoming a medical doctor isn’t new for nurses. Even if nursing and medicine are two different disciplines, nursing as a pre-med degree has its advantages.
Knowledge is power. Economic power to be exact. There is an entire field of study dedicated to understanding and hopefully predicting the market in the 21st century.