Patient service is an integral part of a medical facility. Excellent patient service helps to achieve organizational goals and nurtures long-term relationships with the target audience. Staff training must be a top priority for a medical practice to ensure patient … Continue reading
Your front-office staff is usually your patients’ first impression of your practice. Your front-office person represents your medical practice. Demonstrating unmatched patient service is essential. When a person calls your office, he or she is not looking for a chat. … Continue reading
Patients are the lifeblood of your medical practice. They are essential to your practice. This statement is true, considering that no practice can survive without patients. If you have a service that no patient is willing to pay for, you … Continue reading
Today’s typical patient is dramatically different from the typical patient a generation ago. According to Pew Research, nine out of 10 American adults now use the Internet regularly. And that figure is even higher among certain demographics. For example, Internet … Continue reading
Can Your Patients Fire You? A Special Three-Part Series Yes. Your patients have the right to choose their own healthcare provider. They approach their relationship with you as they would with anyone else. With their health on the line, patients … Continue reading
Discover New Content Ideas to Attract Online Patients Are you looking for creative ways to attract new (and preferred!) patients to your website and your practice? Do you know what interests your current patients? If not, there are many ways … Continue reading
Patient Education Starts with Informing Them Why You’re Their Best Choice Healthcare practitioners understand the need to educate patients. Patients need to understand their diagnosis and its implications on their health and life. They need to know what to expect … Continue reading
How to Help Your Patients Now The long deep recession has American healthcare consumers reeling as they continue to face declining home prices and increasing unemployment. Most experts predict a long slow recovery. Given that, how can you best help … Continue reading
According to the American Medical Association’s subcommittee on health literacy, only 35% of physicians know anything about literacy in America. Which means that nearly two-thirds of doctors don’t know that 22% of adult Americans are functionally illiterate and another 27.5% … Continue reading
Look at Your Practice Through Your Patients’ Eyes Has your practice experienced a decline in patient visits, new patients and new patient inquiries? Have you seen an increase in cancellations and no-shows? Would you like to know how some practitioners … Continue reading
