Medical telephone answering services answer phone calls from your patients, take their messages, and process those messages according to your specifications. This is simple enough and straightforward. But what if you need a company that will do more than just take messages? What if you need more than a medical answering service? A Medical Call […]
Read MoreWhat Is Your Weakest Link in Communicating with Your Patients?
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. That weak link in a chain is where it will break when it’s pulled too hard. It represents a single point of failure. Once that link breaks, the chain becomes worthless. Now apply this weak-link concept to communication with your patients. What is this weak […]
Read MoreQuality Medical Answering Service Costs a Bit More, But the Payoff Is Huge
How do patients view your healthcare services? Are you a low-cost provider or a high-quality practitioner? Though there may be a niche for inexpensive healthcare, most people want quality. With their very lives at stake, they want the best. This same thinking applies to every aspect of a practice or clinic. A Quality Mindset Do […]
Read MoreUse a Medical Answering Service to Better Serve and Help Retain Patients
In today’s economy, patients have options. They have more options than ever before. This makes it even more important to strive to retain them as patients. Not only can they select a different healthcare provider or a competing healthcare system, they can also go to a walk-in clinic or urgent care facility. In addition to […]
Read MoreBest Practices for Leading Medical Answering Services
Not all answering services are the same, and these differences can have a significant impact on the service they provide to you and your patients. Advanced medical answering services follow, and even exceed, industry best practices. Here are the key characteristics of the foremost healthcare-related answering services: US-Based One of the best practices that quality-minded […]
Read MoreDiscover Why Healthcare Providers Need a Call Center Dedicated to the Medical Community
Selecting a healthcare call center is a critical consideration to ensure the success of your clinic or medical facility. Too often business managers view call centers as an expense to control. Instead, the more enlightened viewpoint is that a medical call center is an important investment to make for the future of your operation. Don’t […]
Read MoreHow Important Is Quality When It Comes to Patient-Facing Communication?
When it comes to healthcare, providing quality healthcare services to patients is the number one goal. However, the effectiveness in achieving this goal is at times hampered through less-than-ideal patient-facing communication. Aside from your own communication with patients, which you work hard to excel at, consider the following opportunities in providing quality communications with patients. […]
Read MoreYou Shouldn’t Have to Ask to Speak to a Manager
The typical way of handling customer service issues at call centers is to let low-level employees attempt to address all concerns. For the items they can’t handle, they pass callers on to someone with a bit more experience. Eventually you might get to talk to a supervisor, and if they can’t resolve it then you […]
Read MoreDiscover Why Medical Call Center Experience Matters
Any answering service can claim to offer quality service. But not all can follow through by providing it. One smart way to differentiate one call center from another is by looking at how much experience they have. When it comes to a medical call center, experience matters even more. A Long History of Accomplishment To […]
Read MoreHow Long Are You Willing to Hold?
When you call someplace how long are you willing to hold before you grow irritated? Close your eyes, and slowly count to thirty. That’s about thirty seconds, which is equivalent to five rings. This is also the typical length of a television commercial. Most people are willing to wait that long. Now, how long do […]
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