3 Steps to Take When Your Answering Service Disappoints You
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 […]
10 Reasons Why Healthcare Providers Need a Medical Answering Service
Does your healthcare practice, clinic, or facility have a medical answering service? Maybe you’re thinking of getting one. Or perhaps you’re wondering about the one you already have. To help in your deliberations, here are ten reasons why healthcare providers need a medical answering service. 1.Make a Great First Impression A professional medical answering service […]
How to Master Change
Change occurs rapidly in the healthcare industry, perhaps more so than any other area. Just consider the vast number of changes that occurred within the past year. The list can overwhelm. That’s why it’s important to master change. Most of these changes came from external pressures that forced a response. The healthcare industry, as well […]
Let Your Answering Service Answer Your Calls in Uncertain Times
We live and exist in an era of uncertainty. This is no truer than for the healthcare industry, which is on the front lines, adapting to ever-changing expectations and healthcare best practices. As your practice, clinic, or healthcare facility grapples to adapt, don’t overlook the possible role that your venerable medical answering service can take […]
Outsource Your Healthcare Call Center Needs
As healthcare organizations and support companies strive to do things better and serve the healthcare industry with excellence, they must seek ways to improve their operation. One smart strategy is to send their internal call center offsite, allowing another organization to handle their calls for them. This is call center outsourcing. Don’t confuse outsourcing with […]
Remember to Say Thank You and to Be Thankful
It’s been quite a year, which propelled us into a new reality that’s unprecedented and challenging. Nowhere is this truer than in the healthcare industry. Healthcare has bravely led us into a new normal, going to extraordinary measures to keep patients and the public safe, protected, and healthy. In view of this, it’s easy to […]
How to Keep Patients Coming Back
As a healthcare professional, you know there are many steps you can take to keep your patients returning to you to address their healthcare needs. Mishandling a healthcare situation or communicating disrespect to patients will push them away from your practice or clinic and toward another one. When that happens you lost a patient, both […]
Let Your Medical Answering Service Make a Great First Impression
I’m sure you’re familiar with the old saying, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” For many healthcare organizations, this first impression occurs over the phone. What type of impact does your telephone communications have when patients call you? What about when they reach your medical answering service? Consider these telephone […]
How to Find the Best Medical Answering Service: Why Using Price Is a Bad Call
The first thing most people ask when looking for a new answering service is, “What are your rates?” They don’t say this because it’s the best question, but because it’s the one they most readily understand. But this won’t help anyone find the best medical answering service. If you care about your callers and desire […]
Do Your Patients Want Automation or a Real Person?
When patients call your organization, do they want to talk to a human being or a machine? In most all cases they desire the special attention of a person, not the impersonal touch of technology. The only time that technology may win out is to find quick answers to simple questions when people aren’t readily […]
