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.
Learn the three key steps you need to take to grow your physical or occupational therapy practice in 2022: building a strong, quality foundation; marketing your unique services, and diversifying your offerings and revenue streams. Discover how AC Health can help you grow!
Electronic provider-patient communication is a critical component of modern healthcare, but emailing patients is neither secure nor efficient. Learn how AC Health solves this problem by replacing email with secure messaging and HEP storage in a single, HIPAA-compliant platform that saves you time and energy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Given the important role that home programs play in most rehabilitation specialties, clinicians must seek out strategies to improve patient understanding of their prescribed routines. One such strategy is a teaching technique called errorless learning, or EL.
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.
AC Health is the only HIPAA-compliant provider-to-patient platform designed specifically for creating and scaling custom content – from simple text to videos and photos – to support patients between sessions while saving providers 10-20+ hours every week. With an NPS of 91 from thrilled patients, it’s no wonder that providers uploaded 20,000 instructions in the first year alone.
