5 Tips that Will Grow Your Practice and Make it More Efficient!
Your time is precious and you want to spend as much time with your patients as possible, rather than on administrative tasks. After all, helping your patients live a healthy life is why you went into practice, right?
That’s why we’re taking a look at some time-saving tips for your practice. Here are our top tips to help you run a more efficient practice that allows you to spend more time with patients.
1| Conduct a Workflow Assessment Regularly
If you haven’t reviewed your workflow process in a while, now is a good time to take a peek under the hood and see how things are running. It’s a great way to identify bottlenecks and redundancies in your process that are causing your practice to be less than efficient. Once you know where the problems are, you can work to eliminate them to optimize your office process for check-in, check-out, and documentation.
Be sure to conduct this review regularly; as software and teams change, you’ll want to make sure your workflow is running smoothly and efficiently year after year!
2 | Automate Administrative Tasks
Repetitive administrative tasks don’t always have to be done by hand. Instead, implement software that can automate those administrative tasks. From insurance verification and billing, to appointment reminders and patient communication, software can help free up time for your front desk staff to welcome patients and ensure their needs are met.
3 | Delegate When Possible
It’s not possible to do it all on your own–especially not when you are running a thriving practice that sees a lot of patients each day! So delegate tasks when you can. Your team is there for a reason, so take advantage of their help.
4 | Improve Scheduling and Implement Patient Portals
How’s your scheduling process looking these days? Are you experiencing a lot of wasted time with no-shows? Are patients waiting past their appointment time in the lobby? If so, it’s time to take a look at your scheduling process. Optimize it by adjusting appointment time slots to make the most of your day.
Then implement an online self-scheduling application. This allows patients to choose the right day and time for them without pressure, helping to reduce no-shows and minimize downtime.
If you want to take it one step further, consider setting up an online patient portal that allows patients to access their information–something your administrative staff will thank you for! Many of these portals also offer pre-visit information and messaging, plus appointment scheduling. Just make sure whatever system you set up is secure so it protects patient information.
5 | Hire a Fractional Referral Marketing Service!
In this digital and competitive world, marketing and reaching out to potential referrers is time consuming but necessary to have a successful practice. Take this task completely off your plate by hiring a fractional referral marketing service.
At Physician’s Liaison, we offer fractional marketing services to medical and dental practices across the United States. Take advantage of our consulting services; our experience from thousands of visits on behalf of nearly every specialty and sub-specialty enables us to help your reps shorten the learning curve.
We also offer supportive tools you can leverage that improve your practice and remove obstacles that cause patients to go elsewhere for care.
Lastly, we are proud of our referral marketing services that have helped practices grow for 20 years and counting! Our unique approach to referral marketing expands a provider's and practice's referral relationships while drastically reducing wasted time and money spent knocking on doors and catering lunches themselves. With so many years under our belt helping a wide variety of specialties and areas in the medical and dental industry, we provide you with a trained and experienced liaison who will take a dynamic approach to growing your network of referring providers.
Learn more about the benefits of hiring Physician's Liaison to grow your practice in a sustainable way!