Use a Medical Answering Service to Boost Patient Retention
Given the rapid changes in healthcare and with more patients taking control of their health and jumping providers at the smallest of slights, patient retention is now more critical than ever. To address this, you seek every advantage you can to provide a great patient experience in your office, clinic, or facility. You do everything […]
Mix Medical Answering Service with Telephone Triage for a Winning Combination
When patients call your office after hours, they have one of two objectives. Either they want medical advice, or they need assistance managing their healthcare. Although these two needs seem very similar, the ideal solutions come from different sources: telephone triage for medical advice and medical answering service for everything else. Here’s why: Let Specialists Specialize […]
What Do You Do When You Lose Power?
The healthcare industry has seen many changes in the past few decades. One key area is an increased reliance on technology for testing and treatment, as well as for management and support systems. And all this technology requires power to operate. What happens when your practice, clinic, or healthcare facility loses power? At best, it’s […]
Select an Answering Service That Focuses on the Healthcare Market
Do you really care what kind of answering service handles the phone calls for your practice, clinic, or hospital? Well you should. Don’t trust your patients’ calls to a generic one-size-fits-all answering service. Instead go with one that specializes in the healthcare industry. You need a medical answering service. Here’s why: Familiarity Counts A medical […]
A Complete ROI Analysis of Hiring a Medical Answering Service
Sometimes business decisions for the expenditure of money are made based on their ROI (return on investment). This is often true in healthcare. The basic calculation for ROI is net profit divided by total investment times 100. The result is a percentage, the higher the better. This allows the value of different investments to be […]
Are You Ready to Brave the Blizzard?
In a prior post we asked the question, “Are you ready for the storm?” In it we discussed ways your answering service can help your practice, clinic, facility, or hospital when bad weather occurs. Though bad weather can happen anytime of the year, it’s more likely to pop up in the winter months. That would […]
Daytime Answering Service May Be the Right Solution for Your Practice or Clinic
When most people think of medical answering services, their mind jumps to after-hours coverage. They think about taking messages for routine calls and dispatching urgent ones to on-call staff. While this is a correct understanding, it’s also short of the complete picture of what medical answering services can accomplish for their clients. Not only do […]
Are You Ready for the Storm?
Although winter hasn’t officially started, its effects have already occurred in much of the country. Snowstorms, ice storms, and freezing rain, along with cooler temperatures. Is your practice, clinic, or facility ready to deal with the threat of bad weather and the reality of one or more bad storms before spring arrives? Sometimes winter storms […]
Is Your Answering Service Ready for the Holidays?
With the holidays coming up, now is a great time to review the information your answering service has about your practice, clinic, or facility. Ideally this should be an ongoing effort that happens year-round, but the reality is that relevant updates about your organization may not always filter down to your answering service in a […]
Does it Really Matter if Your Medical Answering Service is Onshore or Offshore?
If you want to hire a medical answering service for your hospital, clinic, or practice, is location that important? Why can’t you select an offshore provider and possibly save a few dollars? With your organization’s reputation at stake and your patients health on the line, sending calls out of the country is too risky to […]
