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Stephen O'Connor is the Director of Brand and Digital Marketing, responsible for many aspects of Advanced Data Systems Corporation’s (ADS) marketing, including product marketing, customer acquisition, demand generation, brand, brand design, and content marketing.
Stephen has more than 20 years of healthcare industry experience. Prior to ADS, Stephen spent 11 years at Medical Resources Inc. (MRI), most recently as the Manager of Marketing & Internet Services, where he and his teams were responsible for all marketing efforts and the market positioning of MRI’s services.
Stephen spends his day's planning, writing, & designing resources for the modern healthcare professional.
Medical Billing / RCM | Laboratory
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Stephen O'Connor
December 13th, 2017
Discover how an advanced laboratory billing system, including top-tier lab billing software and comprehensive lab billing services, can revolutionize the financial operations of your laboratory. By optimizing billing for lab services, these systems not only streamline the payment collection process but also ensure faster and more efficient revenue cycles for labs of all sizes.
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Stephen O'Connor
December 7th, 2017
The keys to financial success in a medical practice include recruiting the best possible doctors, nurses, assistants, and other key personnel and then positioning yourself in the community as a leading healthcare provider. Prudent managers will always be on the lookout for money that is leaving the practice, whether due to problems in scheduling, unpaid claims, or just the fact that you are hobbling your staff by making them use outdated or otherwise ineffective software systems.
Learn why patient engagement is a necessity and how you can master it within your practice.
Electronic Health Records | Healthcare Advice
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Stephen O'Connor
November 30th, 2017
A patient portal is not the door that people walk through to get inside your medical practice. It is the term given to the electronic portal that you can enable for them thanks to your electronic health record software. Essentially, it is a way for patients to log into their account to check on details of their healthcare and to ask questions of the staff, with information protected by robust security.
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Stephen O'Connor
November 24th, 2017
You may be just starting out at a new medical laboratory and have been tasked to find a laboratory billing system for your team. Or, perhaps you have been working at the same lab for some time now, and you and your fellow stakeholders have realized that you need to do something now to start collecting more money.
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Stephen O'Connor
November 16th, 2017
Changes in the United States healthcare system are leading to new challenges that patients and healthcare providers alike must address. For example, patients facing financial issues (with limited savings for emergencies) will take longer to pay their medical bills or wind up defaulting on these bills during tough economic times.
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Stephen O'Connor
November 8th, 2017
While there is an emphasis on basic face-to-face contact that defines the relationship between patients and the health care providers who offer services to them, a great deal of the interaction between you and your patients and the staff will be mediated through advanced software and computer technology.
Industry News | Healthcare Advice
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Stephen O'Connor
September 28th, 2017
In such a dynamic industry like healthcare, you can count on there being a constant flow of new innovations emerging from a variety of medical researchers, policy experts, technology professionals, and others who provide support to help us do our primary job, taking care of patients.
Practice Management | Electronic Health Records
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Stephen O'Connor
September 7th, 2017
When you run an orthopedic practice, your staff will have different processes and needs to address as compared to other specialties as well as family doctors. For example, you likely will have more referral patients, coming from emergency rooms, pain clinics, and general doctors, with the need to share information with these various entities to keep them updated on the progress of the patients.
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Stephen O'Connor
August 24th, 2017
Delivering healthcare services in the United States requires providers to obtain compensation for the work they do in evaluating, diagnosing, treating, and following up with patients.
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Stephen O'Connor
August 16th, 2017
For the uninitiated, when someone in the medical community mentions “EHR,” he or she is talking about electronic health records. An EHR is a vital application that is becoming nearly indispensable in most medical organizations, including those that treat Medicare and Medicaid patients and want to receive financial rewards from the government in exchange for demonstrating meaningful use of certified, up-to-date EHR technology because of the efficiencies it enables.