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Enhancing Telehealth Offerings with Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring

Despite the recent overnight success of telehealth technology, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is one area of healthcare technology that did not see rapid adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic, yet it has been identified as one of the greatest opportunities for patient engagement according to a recent KLAS survey.The hesitancy of RPM adoption has not been due to a lack of technological advancement or because of a limited number of connected devices in the marketplace. Instead, it’s a lack of priority and a lack of understanding of the benefits remote patient monitoring brings to both your patients and your bottom line.

mary-sheldonmary-sheldon
2 min read
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Everyone Needs a Better Healthcare Communication Tool

Communication in a medical practice is essential to the patient care, patient satisfaction and productivity of the healthcare personnel. Within all healthcare environments, there should be an active communication between all personnel, not just between physicians. Communication starts at the front desk. Throughout the course of an average workday, the front office staff must schedule a wide array of appointments and medical procedures.

Krishna KurapatiKrishna Kurapati
4 min read
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Don’t Let Faxing Disrupt Your Healthcare Workflow

Technology has made so many parts of everyday life easier, especially around communications. It’s easy to send just about any type of document you need via email or text. Yet, there is still the widespread use of faxing in healthcare. Healthcare can use robots for surgery and reattach hands, but when it comes to paperwork, the 1980s facsimile is still the go to. And while it’s still a necessary evil that doesn’t mean faxing should disrupt your healthcare workflow.

Ben HensonBen Henson
4 min read
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Flu Season Management with Qliq Secure Texting

The 2018 flu season is shaping up to be one the worst in nearly a decade and your practice is not immune. The CDC FluView report for the last week of January even states that a “cumulative rate of 51.4 laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations per 100,000 population” has been observed. We’re all feeling the pain but at QliqSOFT we would like to recommend some simple steps that may just help you prepare and protect your patient population.

jolean-sheffieldjolean-sheffield
5 min read
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Flu Season 2020 - Planning During a Pandemic

A pandemic creates a massive challenge for healthcare professionals in the United States but another challenger is approaching in the Fall, flu season. With over seven million COVID-19 cases in the United States alone, the upcoming flu season only serves to burden an already taxed health care system.With positive cases still on the rise throughout the country, the Fall flu season becomes more uncertain. Especially with the overlap in the high-risk groups (and symptoms) between COVID-19 and influenza, having a plan is essential for tackling the fall.

dante-hernandezdante-hernandez
3 min read
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Healthcare Chatbots and the Future of Chatbot Technology in Healthcare

When it comes to increasing patient satisfaction, reducing readmission, and improving your bottom line, what are the possibilities for healthcare chatbots? Technological advances have made a world of difference in the delivery of quality healthcare to patients across the world. From connected medical devices to electronic health records, technology provides doctors and nurses a way to better connect with their respective patient populations in ways that were never even thought of 20 years ago.

Ben HensonBen Henson
7 min read
Healthcare Digital Transformation Trends to Watch for in 2022 - QliqSOFT Blog
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Healthcare Digital Transformation Trends to Watch for in 2022

This year, we will see a shift in how healthcare organizations utilize digital solutions. Over the last two years, during the pandemic, organizations in nearly every industry adopted digital solutions to address temporary challenges. However, as time went on, many of these solutions proved valuable tools, and attitudes towards digital health have changed significantly.

brittanie-pervierbrittanie-pervier
3 min read
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Heartbleed, Internet Explorer Bug and HIPAA Security

Three weeks ago Internet users were notified en masse that a security vulnerability had been discovered in OpenSSL, a widely-used piece of open-source software that helps securely transport information around the web. The so-called Heartbleed bug forced healthcare IT vendors across the industry to perform internal forensic analyses to check whether they were sending vulnerable PHI across various internal and external networks.

Ben HensonBen Henson
2 min read
Hispanic  Health Coalition of Georgia Partners with QliqSOFT to Modernize Digital Patient Communication for Community Members   - QliqSOFT Blog
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Hispanic Health Coalition of Georgia Partners with QliqSOFT to Modernize Digital Patient Communication for Community Members

The Hispanic Health Coalition of Georgia (HHCGA) has selected QliqSOFT as its strategic automated patient communications partner. QliqSOFT empowers patients to communicate directly and confidentially with healthcare providers through the use of multilingual, interactive chatbots and virtual visits to find the right help, navigating available healthcare services, and resources including patient education.

Ben HensonBen Henson
2 min read