Patient/Clients For Life

Patient Engagement in Rehabilitation: How Our CEO’s Own Experience as a Patient Was Transformed

By |2022-08-05T12:35:05-04:00August 2nd, 2022|Company Updates, General Healthcare, Patient/Clients For Life, Personalize Patient Care|

As a patient herself, AC Health founder Susannah Bailin understands what keeps rehabilitation patients engaged and motivated. Hear her story and learn how relationship building, intersession communications, and a trustworthy HEP app can prevent patients from dropping out before they reach their goals.

A Clinician’s Guide to the Top Physical Therapy Trends of 2022

By |2022-03-29T11:30:54-04:00January 18th, 2022|Independent Practices and Entrepreneurs, Latest News + Research, Patient/Clients For Life|

Rehab professionals are constantly battling to keep their patients involved and engaged in their prescribed therapy, a common source of frustration and burn-out among clinicians (link to “Stopping PT” piece). Today, we’ll consider several novel strategies to better engage patients by leveraging the technology already at their fingertips – their smartphones. We’ll discuss three primary categories of apps that can help boost patient engagement with their plan of care and your practice: patient education apps, home exercise program apps, and specialty apps for specific rehab populations.

Top 10 Patient Engagement Apps for 2022

By |2022-01-30T20:08:53-05:00January 2nd, 2022|Patient/Clients For Life|

Rehab professionals are constantly battling to keep their patients involved and engaged in their prescribed therapy, a common source of frustration and burn-out among clinicians (link to “Stopping PT” piece). Today, we’ll consider several novel strategies to better engage patients by leveraging the technologyalready at their fingertips – their smartphones. We’ll discuss three primary categories of apps that can help boost patient engagement with their plan of care and your practice: patient education apps, home exercise program apps, and specialty apps for specific rehab populations.

Patient Adherence in Physical Therapy

By |2022-01-01T15:19:53-05:00November 26th, 2021|Patient/Clients For Life|

In this feature, we’ll investigate common PT opinions on this final point of frustration. We’ll examine how current research supports some of these sentiments about why many patients don’t adhere to their therapist’s plan of care. Let’s consider four frequently cited reasons for this lack of adherence.

New PT’s Guide: Measuring & Improving the Delivery of Patient Care

By |2022-03-17T12:42:35-04:00October 11th, 2021|Latest News + Research, Patient/Clients For Life|

Leveraging technology to improve the patient experience and the care you provide. Some basic forms of health tech such as electronic medical records are so ubiquitous now that you may take them for granted, but they can significantly streamline the way you deliver care – provided you’re using them to their full potential.

How to Reduce Cancellations & No-Shows in Your Clinic

By |2022-01-01T15:22:02-05:00July 21st, 2021|Independent Practices and Entrepreneurs, Patient/Clients For Life|

There’s nothing like an hour-long gap in the middle of your morning to completely throw off your flow. While no-shows and cancellations are annoying for providers, these missed appointments also have larger impacts on the clinic’s bottom line and the healthcare system as a whole. In this article, we’ll discuss the cost of cancels and no-shows to providers, patients, and the healthcare system and how to improve patient attendance.

What to Say When a Patient Says “Rehab Costs Too Much”

By |2022-01-01T15:11:24-05:00June 25th, 2021|Independent Practices and Entrepreneurs, Patient/Clients For Life|

It’s no secret that the cost of healthcare is increasing every year: national health expenditure in the US increased more than 4% each year from 2017-2019, and the American Medical Association calculated a per capita cost of healthcare of $11,582 in 2019. (1) It’s therefore understandable that many patients may be struggling to pay for all types of healthcare, including rehabilitation. Sometimes, however, patients may be using cost complaints as a stand-in for their real concerns about PT or OT. Let’s consider a three-step process to navigate discussions around cost and value to learn what your patient truly needs, and how to deliver it.

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