When patients delay surgery: A proven 4-step follow-up plan
Unscheduled surgeries are a drain on practice resources. These time-tested strategies can help your team effectively reengage patients and avoid lost revenue.
Athenahealth’s Remarkable Interoperability: The Key to Efficient Surgical Scheduling
In the fast-paced world of healthcare, the advent of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has revolutionized record-keeping and patient care. However, for surgical practices, managing scheduling efficiently has remained a challenge. Many EHRs provide their scheduling tools, but they often fall...
Why Adding A Surgical Scheduling Platform to Your Tech Stack is Essential
Surgical practices today are increasingly reliant on technology in order to carry out their daily operations. This is partly due to legislation that requires — among other things — the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and open access through...
Practice Management: Integrating PMS, EMR and Surgical Scheduling Platforms
What is practice management software? Why do surgical practices need to use it? Is it different from EMR and surgical scheduling software? What are the benefits of using healthcare management systems for practices, patients, and surgeons? How can you successfully...
How To Improve Block Utilization For Surgical Practices
Surgery accounts for around one-third of all healthcare spending, making time in the OR the main profit driver of every surgical center or hospital. But spending time in the OR does not come cheap. While each hospital or clinic has...
10 Tips to Improve the Surgery Scheduling Process
With over 10 years of experience helping hundreds of practices improve their surgery scheduling workflow, maximize revenue and enhance patient experience, we’ve learned many of the best efficiency tricks of the trade. We’re thrilled to share our findings with you....
How to Organize Surgery Scheduling
Remember the personality tests you completed in high school, to get to know yourself better? It was always a challenge to select the true choice, as opposed to the option that would result in the character description we’d love to...
The Case for Centralized Surgical Coordination
Everyone loves one-on-one attention, but centralized coordination may be the way forward when it comes to surgeries. Having a dedicated coordinator for each case is not necessarily the best way to navigate the system. The surgical coordination process can best...
The Return of Elective Surgery
The COVID-19 crisis is not behind us, but it seems the first (and hopefully only) wave of infections is waning in certain areas of the U.S. and in some parts of the world. So it’s no surprise there’s a push...
How to Plan For the Surgical Backlog When A Pandemic Ends
No one knows when a pandemic will be over. Early predictions for COVID-19 ranged from the hopeful (one-to-two months) to the unimaginable (12-18 months, or longer). The truth is, no one knows when a pandemic will end or what the...