Why do five star patient ratings matter? [Infographic]


You probably already have a patient portal. Over 90% of private medical practices do. Most Electronic Healthcare Record systems (EHRs) include a patient portal feature. They have been pressured to do so by regulations and a more competitive market. CMS requires you offer a patient portal for a Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) measure. This…
Setting up patient self-scheduling If you allow patients to self-schedule appointments, how will these appointments get on your calendar? How do you prevent overbookings? How can you be sure that the dates and times that the patient sees are actually open? If your EHR offers scheduling through a patient portal, it should handle the conflict…
Shorten the patient self-scheduling workflow Regardless of what you use for patient scheduling, make it as easy as possible for patients. Having a short, encrypted website appointment request form is one such way. Patients hate multistep website processes. In ecommerce, for example, 43% of consumers abandon their carts due to account creation or a difficult…
Patient churn rate is the most difficult metric of patient lifetime value to calculate. Before calculating it, be sure that you have found your max patient recall time and rate. What is patient churn rate and patient lifespan? Patient lifespan is the number of time periods (e.g. years) a patient sees you, on average. Patient…
If you have not yet begun to use text messaging for your practice, appointment reminders might be the best place to start. They can greatly increase revenue, are easy to implement, and they save your staff time. Most importantly, patients want them. Many EHRs include text message appointment reminders in their scheduling or access functionality….
A medical office manager gets a confusing EOB denial. She pastes the explanation — patient name, procedure code, insurance details — into ChatGPT and asks it to decode the denial in plain English. She gets a clear answer in 10 seconds. She resolves the claim. Everybody wins. Except now there’s protected health information sitting on

Provider Spotlight: Dr. Eric Kusher of Compass Total Wellness 💙✨🩺 In this spotlight, we sit down with Dr. Eric Kusher, owner of Compass Total Wellness, to hear the inspiring journey that led him to evolve his practice into a fully virtual model. Driven by a passion for personalized care and long-term wellness, Dr. Kusher built