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Managing After-Hours Medical Answering Services for the Holidays: Tips for Clinics, Physicians’ Offices and Providers (11/19)

October 3, 2024

The holiday season presents many difficulties for clinics, physicians’ offices, and healthcare providers managing after-hours medical answering services. With staff on vacation and patient needs still requiring attention, balancing personal time with professional needs becomes complicated. Common pitfalls, like non-urgent messages sent to on-call staff, incorrect call handling, or misdirected messages, can disrupt workflows and […]

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The Fundamentals of Medical Answering Services

June 4, 2024

Medical answering services have become a crucial component in healthcare, acting as a seamless communication bridge between patients and healthcare providers. These services operate around the clock to ensure patient inquiries and emergency calls are managed efficiently and professionally. Today, medical answering services streamline patient care and clinic management by ensuring healthcare providers can manage

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Advanced Medical Answering Services: A Prescription for Efficiency and Satisfaction

April 29, 2024

Healthcare providers grapple with many complex challenges on a daily basis. Whether it’s costs, patient satisfaction, or staff well-being, balancing care quality with growing expenses can strain budgets and hurt efficiency. On top of this, overworked staff consistently face burnout, jeopardizing patient engagement outcomes and growth along their health journey. Fortunately, advanced medical answering services

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Next-Gen Medical Answering Services with Workflow Automation

April 5, 2024

In telehealth, traditional medical answering services have long handled tasks like appointment scheduling, prescription refills, and patient inquiries, providing vital support for healthcare organizations outside regular hours. However, they often encounter bottlenecks within clinician workflow, impacting efficiency and costs. As “the US healthcare system faces several challenges including caring for an increasing elderly population, a

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Medical Answering Services Role in the future of Telehealth

March 14, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of healthcare, medical answering services play a pivotal role in the evolution of telehealth. Beyond call management, these services have transformed into indispensable components of patient-provider communication, patient accessibility, and refining the care continuum. As the need for post-acute and chronic conditions escalates, healthcare providers face rising operating costs and administrative

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Boosting Efficiency: How Medical Answering Services Reduce No-Call, No-Shows

February 22, 2024

It’s a well known fact that patient no-call, no-shows are one of the biggest setbacks for modern day healthcare. According to a recent Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) statistics poll, “estimates show missed appointments cost single physicians as much as $150,000 annually…[and] for multi-physician offices, the numbers are even more staggering.” Valuable time is easily wasted

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Why You Need a Strong HIPAA-Compliant Answering Service

August 1, 2023

Your relationship with your patients in the medical industry hinges on trust. In order to protect that trust, you have to make sure all patient communications are confidential, protected and secure. That’s why there is no better way to protect your business from security breaches and violations than by enlisting a HIPAA-compliant answering service. What

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Guaranteed Advantages Of A Medical Answering Service

July 26, 2023

In the changing world of today, many healthcare companies are turning to telephone medical answering services. If you aren’t a large medical corporation then you might employ a smaller staff that isn’t able to readily answer customer calls on top of balancing other responsibilities. Whatever the case may be, your practice can always benefit from

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Physician Answering Services For Your Private Practice

June 1, 2023

When a patient calls your private practice after business hours, it is an opportunity to make a lasting impression on a patient’s opinion of your business. Without a physician answering services, the patient is left feeling helpless, and may even be left unassisted in an emergency. They may have to wait hours, or even days,

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TeleMed: The Answering And Scheduling Service You Need

April 14, 2023

As a medical practitioner, you understand the importance of providing quality patient care. But juggling all the administrative duties that come with running a practice can be challenging. One way to reduce this stress is investing in an answering and scheduling service. In this article, we’ll look at how such services can benefit any practice

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