Before joining the healthcare industry, I had no idea about all of the aspects that go into ensuring a patient is able to see the provider that they need to see. It sounds like it would be easy, but every time appointments are successfully booked, attended, and reimbursed – it’s actually kind of a small …
Your no-showed appointments might be giving you a lot of valuable information about your practice. All you have to do is look a little bit deeper. There are very few things that upset a medical provider more than a getting stood up. We aren’t talking about dating here, we are talking about a patient no …
Over the last few weeks on our social media platforms, we’ve been bringing attention to the concept (and complexities) of working from home. All of the Opargo team members transitioned to working remotely back in March, and we’ve learned a lot from making the switch. We understand that there are a ton of resources with …
Throughout this blog series, we’ve talked about a lot of aspects regarding optimization of scheduling, and of the healthcare industry as a whole. Our posts have been centered around how to run the most efficient organization possible. Optimization is all about the strategic use of resources, even if they’re beyond the scope of physical materials …
Practice Schedule Management = Provider Time Management = Practice Success Patient scheduling in a medical practice is no easy task. In fact, patient scheduling is not really a task at all. It is a process and a unique, complicated one at that. At a root level, patient scheduling is a form of time management and …
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1998 is the last time that I personally scheduled a patient’s appointment while working in a doctor’s office. I am here to tell you: we were winging it. The practices I worked in were well-respected and well-run organizations, so the fact that there was almost no structure around scheduling was largely just the norm at …
Scheduling Inaccuracy vs. Healthcare Optimization Scheduling operations go hand-in-hand with healthcare optimization. But if there is much room for improvement, sometimes scheduling can actually work against the goals that the practice is trying to meet. It’s important to find a balance between patient care and the practice’s goals. A practice always wants to make sure …
We always talk about optimizing practices, but not a whole lot about what that really looks like. In our upcoming series, we want to give you the complete run-down on how different aspects of your healthcare organization can be promoting the goals of your practice to help you increase efficiency and provide better care for …