The relationship between health care and IT is ever changing. To remain competitive in health care today it's imperative to stay up to date. This blog reviews new and emergent technologies in health care as well as explains how you and your medical practice or health care organization can leverage these advances for yourself.

Keeping Your Patients Informed in Times of Crisis

We are currently in the early stages of a Swine Flu pandemic and officials think it could get worse before it gets better. People around the globe, your patients,  are scrambling for information about how this outbreak affects them and their families. How are you as a single or multi-physician group practice responding to this sudden need for information? In this post I’ll look at some ways you can leverage your practice website to help keep your patients informed during times of health uncertainty.

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Independent Health Selects Practis

Independent Health, a premier health plan servicing the Western NY region, has selected Practis to participate in their Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program, a two-year pilot project for Western New York primary care physicians. Practis will offer a turn-key website design program to the practices participating in their pilot. Click for more information on this program.

SEO Best Practices

For success with organic (natural) search, consider these few best practices:

Make your site content relevant. Content is definitely king. Make sure that your site has information that is relevant to the code that SE spiders see.

Remember consistency. Consistent use of keywords or keyword phrases with page titling, file naming, header tags and site content begets favorable results.

Involve your visitors. Build a community on your site. If possible, allow site users to leave comments or blog. This practice helps to drive repeat visitors.

Submit a sitemap. Not coming up at all? Consider submitting a sitemap. Google will look at those pages and any linked to them. A sitemap generator can be found by going to Google’s Webmaster Central.

Remember its quality, not quanity. Get quality inbound links from quality sites. Slow and steady wins the race as this process takes time. Don’t fall prey to the temptation of getting links from link farms or your site can get dropped all together.

da Vinci Surgery Website Program Expands

Practis and Intuitive Surgical are pleased to announce the expansion of the da Vinci Surgery website program to include content for general and pediatric surgery, cardiothoracic and hospitals. This popular program is a turnkey, all inclusive solution that not only includes web design, development and hosting, but syndicated content that is dynamically delivered. For more information about this unique program please visit http://davinci.practisinc.com.

Practis Partners with DrScore

DrScore.com, the premier online patient satisfaction service and Practis, a leading healthcare web design firm, announced today that they are partnering to improve healthcare in the United States.

This partnership will enable both companies to fulfill their missions to give doctors and medical practices the ability to use the Internet to better care for their patients. Read full press release. [pdf]

Practis Announces the Launch of Practis Forms v2.0

Practis is excited to announce the launch of Practis Forms v2.0. This newest version gives clients a consolidated online area to manage secure patient form results, users and user groups, and form routing. There is also a built in audit trail to view form access. Learn more.

Practis Video

Practis now offers a comprehensive, turn-key video product that includes nationwide on-site production, editing, formating and distribution. Learn more.

Compassion and Support Website Featured

Compassionandsupport.org, designed and developed by Practis, was named in the Expression Engine Site Showcase. Click for more information>

Practis Chosen To Participate in GE Healthcare’s Beyond Program

Practis is pleased to announce that it has been selected to participate in the GE Healthcare Beyond™ Program as a solutions provider of website design and development for medical imaging providers. Through an online web portal, the GE Healthcare Beyond™ Program provides imaging professionals with access to a network of best-in-class solutions providers who offer products and services designed to help providers start, grow, or optimize an imaging center. Read full press release. [pdf]

Practis Announces Joint Program with Healthwise

Practis Inc. announced an agreement with Healthwise to provide their Healthwise Knowledgebase to Practis customers. The Healthwise Knowledgebase powers provider websites with award-winning, URAC accredited online medical content and hosts more than 5,000 topics on health conditions, medical tests and procedures, medications, and everyday health and wellness issues. Learn more about this new program or download press release [pdf].

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