Technology
Can Your Patients Contact You In These 3 Ways?
Thanks to technology, the ways that we communicate, shop and access services have changed dramatically over the past decade. As consumers, we are continually demanding more ways to make contact with our favorite brands and services. As health professionals, we need to be aware of how this impacts how our patients contact us. Many…
Read MoreVideo Content for the Health Professional – Why Bother?
A quick search of any health ailment on You Tube will instantly reveal many thousands of videos that have been made by health professionals world wide. So why should you create even more video content to add to the pile? People trust the health professional that they have developed a connection with, and technology now…
Read MoreThe Digital Patient Journey – Are You Missing Opportunities to Connect?
Often before deciding to make an appointment to see a health professional, people are googling questions about their injury or condition online. If you can create content to match these questions, these potential patients will find you. They may want to read more about you and what you do, and then ultimately will decide to…
Read MoreTop 5 Tech Trends Health Professionals Must Plan for in 2017
From my experiences scouring the globe for tech trends and how they apply to the health industry, I want to share with you the top 5 digital tech trends that health professionals need to be looking out for in 2017. 1) Virtual and Augmented Reality Virtual reality is conveyed within a digital headset, where…
Read MoreThe future of digital health: what could that mean for your small business?
I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was witnessing a paraplegic person walk again. I viewed this amazing moment in a video shown by a fellow presenter at the International Society of Digital Medicine conference in Nanjing, China. A robot exoskeleton was wrapped around the body of the paraplegic person, and they were walking with crutches…
Read MoreWhen bedside manner goes online: The future of business communication
Have you heard of the concept of ‘bedside manner’? The term hails originally from the health industry, where it referred to the personal skills that a doctor required to communicate with their patient. The term can, however, be applied in a business sense to refer to how we communicate with our customers in a transaction…
Read More4 Travel hacks for mobile entrepreneur
Today my business headquarters is a café in Shanghai, China. An international conference invitation brought me to this amazing country and it’s a long way from my native Melbourne, Australia. As a result, today I have a whole day to be doing something at the very top of my ‘Reasons Why I Love Being An…
Read More4 Quick tech tips to ensure that you never have to say the same thing twice
Are there days in your business life that you feel like a broken record? Are you sick of answering the same types of emails, telling the same stories to your clients, giving the same training to new team members, or re-teaching the same procedures? As a health professional, I used to see clients (patients) one…
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