If your practice has a blog, that’s great. It’s likely helping your online reputation by providing fresh content regularly, and keeping your website looking up to date. Quite a few practices have good blogs these days, but some of them are missing a big opportunity. Some practices have no way for a visitor on their …
Any website that that collects data about you should have a privacy policy. And almost every website you visit collects some form of data. Although very few people actually read them, 968 of the top 1000 websites have posted privacy policies. Mashable recently wrote an article on privacy policies, and shared some interesting statistics. Among their more …
The good news is your Gmail account gives you an enormous amount of flexibility in managing your email. The bad news is some of the most interesting features are those you’d never know about until you start trying things out, or reading through the gmail help pages. Which – since Gmail works quite well without …
Google Reader is a tool that allows you to keep up with new content from your favorite blogs and news websites, without having to visit each of those websites. You choose what sites you’d like news from, and Google Reader pulls all those stories into one place. As you scroll through your reader, the stories …
Today I wrote a guest post for Xconomy entitled Health Records are Going to the Cloud, Going Mobile, and the Feds Are Still Paying. The post represents what I see as the primary trends in healthcare IT and correspondingly, where the majority of interesting innovations will come from. Based on what I saw at HIMSS (and corroborated in …
Google makes hundreds of changes to its search results algorithm every year with the goal bringing you the most relevant, valuable search results. Rarely are these changes announced or discussed, but yesterday google announced a change big enough to affect 11.8% of their search queries. Considering that google gets hundreds of millions of queries per …
It’s a good idea to own your practice name at every social media site you know of. You may never want to maintain a LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter account for your practice, but if one day you do, you’ll be glad you reserved your name. For some sites, like Facebook, reserving your name forces you …
When you do a google search, you are by default shown 10 search results per page. If you use google’s Instant Search feature (where search results show up as you’re typing in the search box), then you will always see 10 results per page. If you do not use Instant Search, then you can change …
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Over ten years ago SalesForce.com introduced the world to the concept of Software as a Service (SAAS). While there were skeptics for years, SAAS took off in enterprise computing. Today SAAS and cloud computing are finally starting to make their presence known in healthcare technology. Testament to the momentum of SAAS is the introductions of web-based subscription oriented …
Dr. Oskouian is a neurosurgeon who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of complex spinal disorders. As a key member of the Spine Center at SNI, his clinical practice will include the Swedish/Cherry Hill campus in Seattle and various locations in Eastside King County. Oskouian received his medical degree from the University of California, Los …
