Declining ER volumes are predicted by google searches

Many emergency rooms across the country may be sensing that their patient volumes are not as high as anticipated. This is a big issue for many emergency departments because staffing levels have to match expected patient volumes for financial reasons (overstaffed EDs will lose a lot of money and be unsustainable). It is very interesting to me that Google web searches by people for the terms "ER" and "Urgent Care" reflect what is happening in the market: more and more patients are searching for urgent care facilities for their unscheduled care instead of ERs. Here is a graph I created using Google Trends to show this trend:

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Mastering Medicare Cheat Sheet

Amy Schiffman and I have created an awesome 1-page Medicare Cheat Sheet. You can get it for free by joining the Mastering Medicare subscriber list . Here's a sneak peak

How To Automatically Upload a Zoho File Attachment to Dropbox from Zoho Creator using Dropbox API v2 and Zoho postUrl

I'm an idiot, so this took about 6 hours for me to figure out, but apparently many people have not been able to figure this out, and I could not find a complete and working solution online anywhere. If you want to be able to upload a file to Dropbox from Zoho Creator, you have to create a custom function like below (here I called the function "Dropbox", under namespace "Create"). In the function, the ID is being passed to it from the underlying form entry. void Create.Dropbox(int id) { url = "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/save_url"; headers = {"Authorization":"Bearer XXXXX","Content-Type":"application/json"}; data = {"path":"/FFFF/TTTT.XXX","url":"YYYY"}; datastring = data.toString(); response = postUrl(url,datastring,headers,false); } ... where XXXXX is your secret Dropbox Token, and YYYY is the url of the file you are uploading, and FFFF is the Dr

How to track CME - guest post published on Knack blog

I am happy to announce that my detailed post on how I built CMElog.org using Knack , Zapier, Dropbox, Mailchimp, Mandrill, and Google Drive has been published on the Knack blog: In this post, I dive into details of how to use Zapier to build automated services, like CMElog.org, in which medical providers' continuing medical education credits can be automatically extracted, identified, copied for back up, organized, and accessed.

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