All About the Clinic!

Team Kabuk is extremely pleased to introduce long awaited support for clinics!  So what's new? Clinic Creation: Clinic owners can now create a clinic and easily add practitioners. More key functionality for clinics will be heading your way very soon, including the ability to assign administrators to oversee practitioner schedules. Up next? Some exciting new resources, admin functionality, testimonials, and the ability to claim your pro...

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The Big Bad Business Plan

The problem with business plans, in the most traditional sense of the term, is that they are static;  A window into, or snapshot of, your business at a very specific moment in time. You write one, or many - everyone seems to have their own required standard template - and then they just sit there and stagnate. As a start-up, your business is changing exponentially every day. New obstacles and data have a way of making themselves known constantly...

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The Trouble With the Cross-Training Hygienist

I recently became aware of the trend towards cross-training in dental offices. I immediately called my friend, a dental hygienist to see if "cross-training" in the world of dentistry was a real, or common, phenomena. I was somewhat unsettled to learn that it was. It was time to do some research. So - what exactly is cross-training anyhow? Cross-training is the practice of training an employee who has been hired for one role to do tasks associated...

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Funding Fumbles and Chatter from a Woman Living the Tech Start-up Life

I can't tell you how many articles I've read espousing the need to fund more women led companies, or provide more mentorship opportunities. Countless. The truth? Getting funding for a start-up is hard no matter who you are. Is it harder for a woman? Maybe.... Probably. I'm certainly not trying to downplay the stats on men vs. women-led companies getting VC funding.  In truth, the bigger problem for us was experience (i.e. previous successful...

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The Top Ten Benefits of Physiotherapy

Excited to share our brand new infographic on physiotherapy treatment in Canada with all of you! First – a little bit of history on Physiotherapy as a profession in Canada. Physiotherapy in Canada has a rich history, dating back to the end of World War I. At the time, the need for physiotherapy was driven by the return of wounded soldiers, many of whom were in need of some form of physical rehabilitation. The Canadian Physiotherapy Association...

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The Connected Patient

In today's data crazy world it seems like everyone is online, all the time. Healthcare is no different. Patients are searching for health information online constantly. Is the information that they are finding enough? Interestingly, while healthcare inquiries are one of the most common google queries, few providers are fully making the leap into the internet savvy, online all-the-time world. While 90% of patients surveyed by Canada Health Infoway...

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The Making of Kabuk - Part 2

We met Babak over spaghetti in the St. Lawrence Market area. As most of you living the start-up life know, some of the best connections for partnerships and collaborations are made through your existing network. Babak was no exception – a fellow Waterloo grad, we met through mutual friends. There was an instant fit with our team – great news since by this point we had been searching high and low for the RIGHT technical co-founder for several months. Finding...

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Medical Herbalist Demystified!

At Kabuk, we help patients find a variety of specialists from the well-known to the hard-to-find. One of the rarer specialties we support is, without a doubt, medical herbalists. Once we added support for medical herbalists last weekend the questions began to roll in.What is a medical herbalist? What conditions to they treat? What sort of training do they undergo? How would a typical consultation with a medical herbalist work?Luckily, we were fortunate...

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