Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health offers free training to nonclinical employees, such as reception staff, to supplement shortages among medical assistants, according to an Oct. 22 report from The ...

Medical assistants are health care professionals who help doctors in clinics, medical offices, and hospitals. They may make your appointment, take your vital signs, and draw your blood. A medical ...

Credit: Getty Images Medical virtual assistants typically are remote workers who can handle social media accounts and administrative tasks such as appointment scheduling and insurance verifications, ...

Medical assistants trained as health coaches substantially improved patient-reported primary care under the Chronic Care model measured by the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care. Objectives: ...

There is a workforce gap opening up in healthcare — and it is not at the physician or specialist level. It is in the clinics, ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Patients participating in video visits with their primary care doctors in fall 2020 benefited from having a medical assistant help connect the call, particularly if they needed ...