What is your attitude toward your medical answering service? Do you view them as a cost to control or as a critical part of serving your patients? Think about your answer. From a strict financial standpoint, keeping your costs—including your answering service—low maximizes profit. You need a profit if you want to endure as a […]
Read MoreBy most all accounts, last year was not a good one. The expectation of most everyone is that this year will be better. They hope for more positive outcome in the new year. Yet the only thing that’s changed from last year to this year is that we moved the date from December 31 to […]
Read MoreAs you think about the transition from summer to fall, it’s an ideal time to review all the account information your medical answering service has about your organization. Over time things change, and sometimes these updates never reach your answering service. If you’ve overlooked something, don’t feel bad. It happens. Now take some time to […]
Read MoreHow ready is your answering service to provide you with the support you need when conditions change suddenly, and unprecedented situations evolve overnight? A basic answering service can’t pivot so quickly. That’s why it’s important to have a competent medical answering service handle the calls for your practice, clinic, or healthcare facility. Their industry focus […]
Read MoreYou’ve hired an answering service to answer your phone calls when your practice, clinic, or facility is unable to do so. This is a good start. But when the unexpected happens—say, for example, a worldwide pandemic that throws everyone and everything into turmoil—can your answering service adjust to meet these ever-changing and unanticipated needs? What […]
Read MoreTelephone answering services like to talk about quality service, but for too many of them quality doesn’t move from words to reality. Yet quality service doesn’t happen by accident. It requires intentionality. Here are some steps that the best medical answering services take to provide quality service: Review Calls A key step in the effort […]
Read MoreA common element among healthcare providers is having a medical answering service take calls after office hours and even provide office-hours support. Some business managers view their doctors answering service as an expense that they must seek to contain or even eliminate, if they get overly aggressive. Other business managers cite their medical answering service […]
Read MoreTech To Help As the years pass, technology continues to change getting more and more helpful to our everyday lives. This is true in all industries, but can especially be true in the medical field, as you look at how far we’ve come in the advancement of medical practices just in the last 100 years, […]
Read MoreBuilding an Online Brand Are you taking advantage of medical practice tips promoting technology as a gateway to building your reputation and local business? To succeed in today’s medical marketplace, you must boost your standing in online local searches to secure the PR your practice needs for continued success. Whats wrong with the way I’m handling […]
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal As pointed out in The Wall Street Journal, office managers around the country motivate their staff using a wide variety of tactics. Yet, research studies have proven that methods that focus on showing employees their worth and rewarding them for hard work and creativity accomplishes more than using control and/or punishment techniques. Whether you run […]
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