Hippocamp is closing down
After 4+ years of trying to turn Hippocamp into a profitable business, we’re now forced to close down. Over the past 6 months, we have been looking for an investor or buyer to take over the software, but all potential deals have fallen through (due to COVID-19). We are now forced to set an end-of-life […]
en rejse til bedre sundhed (The journey to better health with EHR)
As far as the adoption curve goes, you are at the tail end. Health care is widely regarded and acknowledged as the most rigid, slow to adopt market on the planet. Life saving medication and surgical devices sometimes taking over a decade to hit the shelves of pharmacies and theatres around the world. The behaviours […]
mHealth: the practical rise of mobile phone use
Walking the streets of Singapore on a Friday afternoon I can’t help but wonder what the droves of busy commuters are looking at with their heads stapled to their phones. A flurry of smartly dressed business execs hurry across the street near the Raffles place MRT and “Whack” one zombie’d smart phone victim walks directly […]
Shrinking the world, saving the economy and lives
The world is shrinking, metaphorically anyway. Much like today is the oldest you’ve been in your entire life, there has never been as much data, technology and access to innovative products as there is right now. What a time to be alive! At our fingertips right now, we can communicate to each other face to […]
Price elasticity testing
What is it? Why would you do it? When should you do? Sometimes in an allied health practice we find it hard to set fees for our services. We have numerous considerations when adjusting a fee for service and often we need to navigate the treacherous waters that embody something so delicate in our patient’s […]
Ten tips to better practice management
Sometimes it’s the obvious things that are overlooked. Here is a recap of our top ten tips to manage your practice
Coordinated Care vs Integrated Care
From a recent Queensland conference it was clear that early Allied Health intervention to injured workers makes a difference.
Comparative advantage: Analysing your practice
How identifying valid operational changes can increase margins in your Allied Health practice.
Placebo Nocebo
A simple change in lingo can have dramatic affects on the way a patient perceives and manages a condition.
Valuing patients
As health professionals we often assume what treatment is best for our patient. But we also need to consider what our patient also thinks is best for them.
Patient Retention
There are numerous factors that need to be considered when juggling optimal treatment compliance and patient needs.
5 fatal mistakes in an Allied Health practice
Countless startups fail every year. Here is our quick run down on some key downfalls when first starting out.