Techtalks: Healthcare

HI there, to answer your question.

In providing shared service solutions to small healthcare businesses, revenue cycle management should be prioritized.It is an essential component to assess the growth of a business. It basically tracks your business revenue from your patient.

But one must understand that there are numerous factors to successfully grow your business even if it is just a small clinic. Some of the factors to consider are - the advantages of outsourcing a credentialing service, a marketing team, human resource staff, IT support and more.

Hi there,

The DrugBank Clinical API is available through a commercial license. Reach out to our sales team and they can give you access to an API trial.

In the meantime, you can visit our Help Center for an in-depth look at the API and how it works.

Thanks!

Hi Sanjana! If you haven’t read our article on patient engagement, I’m sure you’ll find a lot of answers there.

But in short, patient engagement is a set of practices and tools for helping patients become more educated about their conditions and more confident when managing them. Three main aspects of patient engagement include:

• Education -- explaining the course of treatment using videos, schemes, and other digital materials.
• Decision making -- using so-called decision aids that provide the overview of treatment options to help patients make an educated choice.
• Support outside the doctor’s office -- safe and convenient messaging, scheduling, and medication adherence reminders.

Let us know what else you want to learn on this topic.

CTMS or Clinical Data Management System is software for managing the whole clinical trial process. EDC or Electronic Data Capture is just one of the steps in that process - creating protocols and case report forms, recording patient data, and sending it to where it belongs. 

Not all clinical trials use complicated CTMSs, but most of them have an EDC, because they replace paper forms and reports. Sometimes patients use them too, when they’re accessing ePROs to report their health. We have a whole article on clinical trial software, where we explain all these systems and how they comprise the trial workflow.

Well, first thing to know is that all main EHR vendors have cloud-based versions of the software, most of which exclusively so. We’ve reviewed them here, if you’re interested. Cloud products in general are cheaper and more convenient in terms of maintenance and implementation, so smaller medical practices can get and use one right away. Besides, cloud software is:  

• Compliant with HIPAA requirements
• Updated automatically by a vendor
• Accessed on any device in any location (of course, with additional authorization measures)
• Easy to scale

Traditional or on premises EHR require an in-house IT team and complex tech infrastructure. Hospitals pay upfront and it takes months or even years to prepare the hospital and the system. The main benefit is customization, which is critical if you want to make sure that the software serves your needs best. Considering how frustrating and time consuming regular EHRs are, it makes perfect sense to customize an EHR if you have the budget.

Actually, there are many sources, we covered the main ones in the article here. Here’s an overview:
 
Start with openFDA - a government platform with tons of open source APIs on drugs, food, and devices. It returns information in JSON on product labels, National Drug Codes, and some unique info like reports on recall enforcements and adverse events.
 
DailyMed returns only data on drug labeling in JSON and XML formats and goes into a bit more detail than openFDA.
 
MedlinePlus aggregates data on patient health from over 1600 organizations and has tons of useful information about diseases and their use cases, complemented with images, videos, and of course used drugs. Drug data covers both generic and over the counter drugs, their dosage, side effects, storage conditions, and precautions. Above that, there’s data on evidence-based treatments like herbs and supplements. Medline uses an XML format.
 
RxNorm is your main source of drug vocabulary - any terms, brands, ingredients, properties, their codes, drug-drug interactions. There are six APIs to retrieve that information and you can choose between JSON and XML.

If you need drug prices, go to GoodRx that aggregates pricing data from pharmacy chains and covers 80 percent of US retail drug purchases. There’s even a price comparison feature. GoodRx returns JSON responses.

Do research industries allow work-from-home for researchers? On account of the vast developments of technology and the COVID-19 pandemic, along with globalization, there are several home-based pharmaceutical jobs and biotech jobs as well.