Patient Satisfaction

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How to Establish Performance Baselines for Your Healthcare Team

Endeavor for Excellence: Step 4 – Establish Performance Baselines If you have been following along for the redeployment of MedicalGPS’ service improvement program, this week we move into Step #4 — establishing baseline performance measures.   If you have not been Read More

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Increasing Patient Retention Through Improved Patient Engagement

To thrive in today’s healthcare environment, primary care as well as specialty care physicians must implement and maintain strong patient engagement strategies.  Effective patient engagement produces improved patient retention and patient outcomes. (1) Proactively engaging patients about their health and Read More

The Importance of Patient Follow-Up and Service Recovery

The Importance of Service Recovery Cannot Be Overstated In today’s deeply consumer-driven healthcare sector, following up with patients is not only critical to compliance and outcomes, it is becoming the key factor in both retaining and building stronger, healthier patient Read More

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Improving Patient Engagement and Retention Through Technology

From the exam room to the home, technology is transforming every facet of healthcare at a pace that’s both exciting and overwhelming. Artificial intelligence systems can accurately create predictive outcome models or design smarter medicine, and remote health technology keeps Read More

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It Pays to be Hospitable: in Healthcare and in Life

Creating a culture of service excellence that goes beyond ‘good customer service’ is all about being hospitable. Having spent my entire professional life in two service industries; the airlines and healthcare, using ‘hospitable’ to describe a customer-centered, service-oriented culture is Read More

10 Steps to Maximizing Patient Loyalty and Effecting Positive Change within a Physician Group Practice

How to Effectively Use Real-time Patient Feedback to Effect Positive Change within a Physician Group Practice Since 1995 I have had the privilege of working with physician practices to help improve the patient experience. Between 1995 and now many things Read More