Virtually every patient satisfaction survey reveals patients’ dissatisfaction with getting through on the phone to their healthcare provider. Phone trees should be a helpful bridge not an impenetrable wall. Careful planning and utilizing phone tree best practices improve your system and your patient satisfaction. When is the last time you called your office phone … [Read more...] about Phone Tree Best Practices
Health Care User Experience
We all know the health care system is broken, and that every aspect of the patient journey needs to be overhauled, optimized, and made tolerable (enjoyable might be asking too much). Unfortunately, the journey and daily activity for physicians, nurses, administrators, technologists, and schedulers needs the same level of change. Enhancing the patient experience cannot come at … [Read more...] about Health Care User Experience
The Voice of Medicine
Drowning in Data Technology has become an integral part of healthcare, sometimes to the chagrin of the clinicians - not to mention the feelings of practice administrators. Most health care workers spend more time interacting with the electronic health record (EHR) than the patient. Consider this further, and it is clear - after about a decade of specialized training to take … [Read more...] about The Voice of Medicine
Case Study: Leadership Means Finding the Source of Problems
SQ is a loyal employee who brings a positive attitude and is always on time and willing to help out. Recently, however the office manager found SQ's work quantity did not equal those of other staff. The office manager reviewed SQ's computer work log and realized that SQ wasted a tremendous amount of time clicking between work assignments, returning frequently to the same task … [Read more...] about Case Study: Leadership Means Finding the Source of Problems
Case Study: The New Practice Administrator
PM has been with a practice for 18 months. He has great credentials and can handle the finances, regulatory requirements, and computer issues. The problem, however, is that he does not know how to do the individual jobs within the practice. For example, he does not know how to do patient check-in, check-out, or schedule a new patient. This creates problems when the practice has … [Read more...] about Case Study: The New Practice Administrator