Electronic Health Reporter

The quality of personal health is more important to patients than any other thing. This is why most hospitals prefer scheduled or periodic follow-ups with their patients. However, for large hospitals, this may come with some challenges as the number of patients to be handled may be bigger than the health care teams. Besides, hospitals also face stiff competition as patients easily find alternative health care providers who offer better treatment options.

To be able to beat the competition, many hospitals develop more effective marketing outlets. These web-based outlets help patients with answering health care questions before they can proceed to seek treatment. In fact, according to Creatio, of all the health questions, three-fourth of them begin in search engines. This is why hospitals need healthcare CRM.  But what is a healthcare CRM? Let’s begin with the definition.

Healthcare CRM

This is a software in the healthcare industry that allows medical centers to manage all the patient’s data together with other health information more efficiently. Healthcare CRM comes with significant components some of which are similar to other CRM systems. The general modules of healthcare CRM are:

• Communication: this feature helps hospitals in scheduling, initiating and monitoring all communications with their patients. Besides, it includes features that support appointment confirmation as well as setting reminders for the scheduled activities.
• Reporting: healthcare providers use this feature to generate patient reports such as those that track ROI for all marketing campaigns.
• Task management: this CRM module makes it possible for healthcare staff to add tasks, assign tasks to staff members, view tasks, update tasks, track progress, set priorities, deadlines and completion.
• Patient management module: this module is specific for healthcare industry. It is used by healthcare users to add patient records, update them, segment patients based on their conditions as well as communicate with patients more effectively.

These modules are very specific for the health industry and provide great support to the health provision process. However, not everybody will benefit from a healthcare CRM. See who can benefit from a healthcare service industry CRM:

• Hospitals
• Urgent care centers
• Primary care officers and physicians
• Retail health clinics
• Emergency departments
• Outpatient centers etc.

4 Key Benefits Of Healthcare CRM

Mailing and marketing campaigns

Healthcare CRM helps healthcare providers to know their patients, understand what they are looking for or what they need to be able so that they are able to improve quality of services and improve relationships with patients. This tool is able to track the satisfaction of patients as well as check their likelihoods of referring other patients to the facility. Besides, this software helps you to efficiently filter patient contacts. You therefore get a targeted list of patients with more interest in upcoming products or offers.

Improves Personalization

Apart from just storing private healthcare details of a patient, this system also stores information about birthdays, gender, age, profession among other personal information. The tool will therefore help you send personalized messages or emails to inform patients about discounts, congratulate them on birthdays, remind them to take pills or attend to appointments and many more. All these personalized actions show patients that you care for them and help them recover even faster.

Eliminates Errors

Manual reporting increases chances of administrative errors. Research shows that over 70% of patients repeat cases after the same cases are reported to several other doctors. Besides, many patients are forced to retake tests after initial test results are lost.

However, as the quality of service become more important to the industry, healthcare providers must shift to offering patients increased quality as it affects their revenue directly. By informing healthcare providers about patient information that should be entered and storing all that information, CRM system solves the problems of lost patient interactions and minimizes time spent serving the patients. This eliminates administrative errors and increases customer satisfaction.

Tracks Referred Patients

The process of transferring patients to specialists is not easy to track without CRM. It is not easy to track whether the patients actually visited the specialists or whether they got quality healthcare. Patients are lost as a result, and that also means that profit is lost.

Healthcare CRM helps staff to store referral information as well as track their progress to ensure quality service is offered. If there is an interrupted service, the system communicates with staff and such cases are resumed easily.