Will You Help Us Get the Word Out About Medical Call Center News?
Please Tell Your Team, Coworkers, and Colleagues About Medical Call Center News
By Peter Lyle DeHaan, Ph.D.
Medical Call Center News has a loyal group of subscribers. You appreciate our content and read most every issue. But our subscriber list also changes a bit from one issue to the next, with a 2.3 percent churn rate. Some people retire or move to other jobs, while new people join the industry or discover our publication. This is a constant reminder that the healthcare industry is undergoing constant change, perhaps more than any other industry.
Given these changes, our overall subscriber numbers stay fairly constant, but we’d like more people to receive Medical Call Center News. Will you do me a favor and help us get the word out?
Please take a few moments and think of team members, coworkers, and industry colleagues who might not be receiving Medical Call Center News. Will you please send them a quick email and ask them to check us out and subscribe?
As you may recall, subscribing to Medical Call Center News is a quick and easy process. We request four pieces of basic information and only require two: your email address and first name. To do things properly, it’s a double opt-in process, so once you submit your subscription information, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Just click on “confirm” and your good to go. It’s that easy.
And don’t worry. We won’t share your name or email with anyone or spam you. You may unsubscribe at any time, but if we do our job right, I don’t think you will.
That’s my request. Now it’s your turn. Please let your call center team, coworkers, and colleagues know about Medical Call Center News.
Thank you!
Peter Lyle DeHaan is the publisher and editor of Medical Call Center News and AnswerStat.
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How Healthcare Call Centers Can Increase Patient Satisfaction
By Aaron Boatin
Doctors answering services have been around for a long time. But that doesn’t mean they’re obsolete. In fact, they may be more important now than ever before. Over time the medical answering service has continued to evolve to meet healthcare providers’ needs and their patients’ expectations. With an emphasis on the personal touch, a medical answering service applies the latest technology to their service offerings so they can provide best-in-class service to their healthcare clients.
As a result, a medical answering service is a critical tool for healthcare providers in the provision of medical services. This is due to the positive, always-available professionalism that a medical answering service has on a practice’s patients and callers.
In healthcare, providers face three challenges: offer a higher level of service, provide it faster, and do it for less. In this never-ending balancing act of quality, speed, and reimbursement rates, it’s easy to lose sight of the why.
Patients exist in the center of healthcare. Without patients, there would be no reason to practice medicine. Keep this in mind with everything you do and every decision you make. Patient satisfaction is the key to success.
However, that success doesn’t just happen during office hours. It extends around-the-clock, seven days a week. But how can you satisfy patients when you’re not in the office seeing them?
This is where a medical answering service comes in. They’re available 24/7 to interact with your patients and callers any time of the day or night, whenever they happen to call. This might be during dinner, at 3 a.m., or during your commute to the office. It could also be on weekends and holidays.
Though there’s little you can personally do to enhance patient satisfaction outside of regular business hours, you make a smart move when you enlist the aid of medical answering service. They can help keep patients as a priority and delight them every time they call by having a real person available to talk to them.
Aaron Boatin is President of Ambs Call Center, a virtual receptionist and telephone answering service provider that specializes in serving the healthcare industry. This article is an excerpt from the post “10 Ways Your Patients Benefit from a Doctors Answering Service.”
Healthcare Call Center News
Technology Solutions for the Home Healthcare Industry: In addition to being a strategic partner with over 160 medical-centric call centers, Pulsar360, Inc. has partnered with MEDsys, provider of web-based home care and private duty care management solutions.
A key component is their electronic visit verification solution, “which is where we come in,” states Michael Dozier, president, and CEO of Pulsar360. “Our customized interactive voice response application and highly reliable network integrated with their software provide mobile visit verification, integrated scheduling, payroll, and billing into one platform that is available every hour of every day.”
This customizable solution provides real-time data exchange to manage the check-in and check-out visit confirmation through IVR and GPS technology and the scheduling component. This also provides a security element for the agency and its staff.
Upon arrival at the patient’s home, the caregiver calls a toll-free number to clock-in and enters their MEDsys secure ID number, which automatically clocks them in. When their shift is over they call their toll-free number and enter their MEDsys secure pin. That clocks them out. The caregiver can also add the plan of care into the phone, which Pulsar360 updates in real-time.
A Thought for Today
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