For clinicians in urgent care, abdominal pain in reproductive-age patients presents a familiar challenge. Add a positive pregnancy test, and the stakes increase significantly, particularly when diagnostic tools are limited onsite.

In a recent case published in the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine (JUCM), Hello Sono founder Dr. Tatiana Havryliuk demonstrates how transabdominal point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) can be used effectively to confirm an intrauterine pregnancy (IUP) and help avoid unnecessary emergency department transfers.

Discover how point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) transforms the evaluation of pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea. Learn how to detect pneumothorax, identify key lung signs like the lung point, and see why POCUS outperforms X-ray—especially in rural and resource-limited settings.

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a transformative tool for evaluating urinary retention in primary care. After this podcast, you will understand how POCUS helps differentiate urinary symptoms, measure post-void residual bladder volume, and guide safe and timely catheter placement. If you are a primary care or an urgent care provider and are not using POCUS, now is the time to start! It's a cost-effective tool that improves clinical decision-making, patient experience, and efficiency while bringing additional revenue to the practice. In this episode, we cover: • How POCUS identifies acute urinary retention in real time • How to calculate bladder volume using ultrasound • The role of AI in bladder scanning • When and how to perform a post-void scan • How POCUS helps avoid unnecessary ED visits and catheterizations

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is transforming how frontline providers diagnose and manage patients. It offers faster answers, improved outcomes, and new streams of revenue. But many clinics miss out on reimbursement due to avoidable gaps in billing infrastructure.

That’s why we created the POCUS Billing Readiness Checklist—a simple guide to help you assess whether your clinic is truly ready to get paid for the scans you're already performing (or planning to start).

A healthy 25-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented to a rural clinic with sudden-onset, sharp right-sided chest pain that began earlier in the day while walking. The pain was pleuritic, but he denied shortness of breath, fever, trauma, or recent illness. On physical exam, his vitals were normal, lung sounds were clear bilaterally, and there was no chest wall tenderness or crepitus. An EKG was performed and found to be normal. With no chest X-ray available onsite, the provider performed a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) of the lungs.

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) can dramatically shift diagnosis and management in primary care—especially for patients with urinary symptoms and flank pain. In this podcast, we walk through a case where POCUS revealed moderate hydronephrosis and changed the plan from outpatient antibiotics to urgent ED referral for an obstructing infected stone. If you’re a primary or urgent care provider, incorporating POCUS into your workflow can help you catch high-risk cases sooner, avoid delays, and elevate the quality of care.