Are You Willing to Pay for Quality or Do You Seek Low-Cost Providers?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tips in Selecting a Medical Answering Service: Not All Providers Are the Same
Don’t Shop on Price The cost of a product or service is something that everyone readily understands. It’s easy to ask and tangible. You can write it down or put it in a spreadsheet. You can run calculations and make projections. Price provides a straightforward way to compare the cost of two providers. It’s also […]
Have Your Healthcare Call Center Do More for You
As you look forward to the future, now is the time—more so than ever before—to think strategically. Look at the business model for your healthcare organization and consider what you can change to produce better and more effective outcomes. Do this throughout your organization, optimizing every department and process. As you do so don’t overlook […]
Elevating the Role of the Telephone on Healthcare
In recent months we’ve seen the telephone rise in importance for the healthcare industry. With the push to do fewer things in person, the need arises to do more things remotely. In this, the telephone has risen to the occasion to become a critical communication tool for the healthcare industry in this new era of […]
Transition Your Telephone into Fall
Last month we talked about how it was an ideal time to update your account information with your medical answering service. By providing them with complete, up-to-date information, your answering service is in the best position to serve you with excellence. Hopefully, you’ve taken care of this, but if not, there’s still time. Now that […]
How Can Your Healthcare Call Center Better Serve You?
Change is normal in the healthcare industry and the rate of change has accelerated in the past several months. As you grapple with both the speed and scope of these changes, expand your considerations to include your medical call center professionals. You may be surprised at your call center’s flexibility and creativity in helping you […]
