by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 17, 2010 | Definitions
A Webinar (short for web-based seminar) is an online seminar put on by a host, where the participants watch the seminars from their computers. Typically, they are either watching a Powerpoint presentation, a live demonstration on the internet or an application, or a...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 17, 2010 | Definitions
The long tail is an economic concept that says the collective demand for less-popular items (in green) can exceed the all the most popular added together (in red). Online music stores are a perfect example because they can carry large collections of music just as...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 17, 2010 | Definitions
When a payer or health plan calls your practice and requests records or requests an on-site visit to review charts, follow this guideline: Be professional at all times. Audits can be nerve-wracking and can be a drain on internal resources, but there is always...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 17, 2010 | Definitions
“Stable Marriage” is a data matching system that solves the question of how to match one set of people with another set of people based on asking each of the groups what they prefer the most. This system is probably best known as that which matches medical...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 15, 2010 | Definitions
The ability of disparate computer systems to easily talk to each other and exchange information. For instance, your practice management system talks to your lab system and your PACS and your EMR and the hospital EMR and ….
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 9, 2010 | Definitions
Geriatrics is a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and aging people. The term comes from the Greek geron meaning “old man” and iatros meaning “healer”. Although there is no specific age when one is a...
