As a part of our series Sip & Strategize: Exploring Health Systems Business Strategy, in this session, we discuss how psycho-demographic data can help inform growth strategy Watch the interview, or read below! Mary: Welcome back everyone to Sip and Strategize where I speak with Dr. Rob Rohatsch about the latest trends, initiatives, and strategies for health systems. Dr. Rob, the last...
Often the first touchpoint for patients at urgent care clinics is the front desk staff. Front desk staff help ensure smooth clinic operations and a positive patient experience. However, given the current state of the industry—with staffing shortages, and high turnover—finding and retaining the right staff has become a challenging task. Here is a quick guide to hiring and interviewing front desk...
Take our self-evaluation quiz to discover how seamless your patient intake process is, and discover areas for you to improve. You can find access to the PDF here, and the full survey and tips to improve patient intake in our latest Urgent Care Toolkit: Digital Registration. Ready to get more insights into your operations and create better patient experiences? Contact us.
Urgent care facilities have seen a rapid rise in demand over the past few years. According to the Urgent Care Association, patient volumes across the United States have grown by 60 percent since 2019. A record 11,150 urgent care facilities are currently operating across the country as of March 2023. To keep up with surging demand, the number of facilities operating across the country is...
About 15 years ago, a health systems strategy for financial success typically involved optimizing fee-for-service structures. This meant it was key to have good contract negotiation on high fees for service rates, but no risk sharing was involved. But things have changed. Health systems no longer make substantial contribution margins in this way. Most systems have shifted to encompass a...
Having access to care has always mattered, but the speed to which you can access care has changed. 26% of patients say that if their chosen provider isn’t available on the same day, they will go elsewhere, and 50% of parents said they will go somewhere else if same-day availability isn’t available. While you may not know exactly when patients want care, you can make it easier for patients to...
Discover patient insights to inform your operations and book of business, and use that to succeed. Get access to our best practices PDF below. Want to learn more about how to meet expectations and grow your business? Check out Solv's latest report with insights from 1700+ patients on what they expect from urgent care.
You've likely heard the question: Is this ER-worthy, or should I just head to urgent care? In many cases, patients must make a judgment call they are ill-equipped to make and often end up in the ER anyway. But when health systems partner with urgent care, they provide the opportunity to capture patients from the beginning of their health life cycle and retain them for significant lifetime value...
You’ve streamlined everything in your urgent care business–optimized your marketing, integrated your EMR, and adopted telemedicine to ease staff burdens. But one thing can still bring your profits to a screaming halt–claim rejections. Those claim rejections typically stem from small mistakes that have a significant impact–transposing two numbers in an address can lead to bills being sent to...
Frontline healthcare workers and healthcare technology professionals saw the critical impact of Southwest Airlines’s technical debt or tech debt over the holidays as over 15,000 flights were canceled and thousands of Americans were stranded in airports across the country. For many people who work on the frontlines of healthcare, the news of Southwest Airlines’ service disruption was the...
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