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Atlanta Colon & Rectal Surgery, P.A. includes a group of surgeons who specialize in the treatment of diseases of the intestine, colon, rectum and anus. All the physicians at Atlanta Colon & Rectal Surgery are board-certified by the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery and the American Board of Surgery.

Take a look at the full Atlanta Colon website today!

Lubbock Diagnostic Radiology(LDR), LLP is comprised of 20+ board certified radiologists with subspecialists in neuroradiology, vascular interventional radiology, musculoskeletal imaging, body Imaging, and diagnostic imaging. LDR is the professional services provider for Covenant Health System.

Check out their website at http://lubbockdiagrad.com/

You asked, we listened!

In addition to its previous features of content control, consistency, maintainability and scalability, Encounter Health’s new vendor user interface allows health company contributors a web-based option to easily add, maintain and organize their content.

Hospitals and practices who utilize the Encounter Health content feed, or API, can now add personalized content to syndicated pages. Having unique content on your website is one of the strategies that help optimize your site for better search engine results.

Called secondary and tertiary content, these new fields allow providers an option of adding unique content about providers trained, geographic locations, awards or other content to syndicated pages without impacting the syndicated content. It’s a win win for both – companies who need to maintain control over their branded content and providers who wish to promote themselves online and be found.

To take a tour or to sign-up for Encounter Health please visit http://encounter2.practisinc.com.

In April, 2013,  Practis Inc. conducted an analysis of website traffic, comparing traffic from 2011 to 2012. What we found demonstrated that, across the board, by medical specialty there was an average increase  in the amount of mobile traffic of 10-15% . The most significant growth in mobile traffic was seen in Pediatrics, OBGYN and ENT.  Mobile devices include both smart phones as well as tablets.

For 2012, the average percentage of mobile traffic out of overall website traffic was:

Also from those surveyed, hospital websites saw roughly 16% of their traffic coming from mobile devices.

What this means

This is the start of what is yet to come. It is expected that mobile traffic will continue to grow 13-fold by the year 2017 and that traffic will come from multiple devices including smartphones, tablets and soon to be TVs.

Going forward, your website will need to be device agnostic. In other words, your site should not dependent on knowing what device it is being displayed on as that can be many. It is equally important to understand that the content displayed on your website should also adapt to the device and offer the tasks the user is most likely looking to perform on that device.

Bottom line – your patients want to view your website on one of their many devices and they expect that it will look and function similarly on each. Since your website is a virtual extension of your practice, isn’t time to make your website just as accessible as you?

Learn more about Practis Mobile Websites

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Located in north central Florida, the Vantage Urologic Institute offers patients and their families unsurpassed expertise, service and support.

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Many medical practices, hospitals and other health care organizations have resisted entering the social space even though millions of people use Facebook and other social media tools to search for hospitals, healthcare and medical information online. Currently about half of the US hospitals do not have a Facebook page at all. The study found that:

“An even stronger relationship was found for mortality. Each percentage point of a decrease in a hospital’s 30-day mortality rate corresponded with that hospital’s page having an average of 93 more Facebook likes.”

This is an eye-opening statistic and considering the upcoming legislation that puts more emphasis on quality of care. Social media, then, is likely to become a benchmark for recognizing a top-notch medical organization. Now that patients are “living online,” this gives medical organizations the opportunity to connect directly with the millions of people who use the internet.

“Facebook has emerged as an important tool for hospitals to use to communicate with their communities. Hospitals, public health researchers and health care consumers could use social media as an additional source of information on topics related to patient satisfaction and hospital quality to complement traditional data sources.”

Most hospitals regularly provide patient satisfaction surveys to their patients. However, it takes an extra amount of effort to go to look up a Facebook page and become affiliated with a brand. As a result of this study, hospitals may want to seriously reconsider aversion to embracing Facebook as a socially branded presence that can provided an added level of customer service and support.

Source: Do Patients “Like” Good Care? Measuring Hospital Quality via Facebook

Located in Texarkana, TX, Advanced Imaging Texarkana provides uncompromising service and superior technology to patients and physicians through its state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging center. Our challenge was to portray the essence of the 9,000 square foot facility and excellent radiologists in a website that reflected that quality of this business.

Our team of designers and developers crafted this site through strategy and communication with the Advanced Imaging Texarkana staff to produce this website.

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