What If You Need More Than a Medical Answering Service?
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 […]
Best 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 […]
Discover 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 […]
How 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. […]
You 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 […]
Discover 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 […]
How 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 […]
Does Your Medical Answering Service Deliver Quality Service?
Look at your telephone answering service’s website. If it’s like most answering services, it trumpets their commitment to quality. This talk about quality may also come up in their literature, email communication, and even invoices. Yet does your answering service follow-through by providing the quality they talk about? Do they deliver quality service, or do […]
Does Your Medical Call Center Focus on Complaint Resolution or Quality Assurance?
It’s the human beings who staff a call center that make the difference, providing personalized service that callers crave and expect. And since no one is perfect, mistakes do happen from time to time. The question is, how often do mistakes occur? Are errors the exception or the norm? The answer to this question reveals […]
What Is Your Medical Answering Service’s Quality Assurance Procedure?
Answering services all talk about quality, but the best ones act to provide excellence on every phone call. Quality isn’t an accident. It’s intentional. This means having a quality assurance procedure. Establish a Protocol of What an Excellent Call Looks Like The first step in providing quality service is to determine what makes for a […]
