Practice Management Software is used by Private Practices to simplify complex business processes and enable them to provide high quality, personalised care. If you’re looking for a platform or to change from one platform to another it’s important you look at what features are offered by the platform to ensure that it’s able to scale and grow as you do along with providing the essentials to keep your practice running smoothly.
This should be an obvious one but having the ability to schedule appointments across multiple rooms and practitioners is essential. Also being able to quickly change, amend, invoice and repeat appointments is extremely useful in ensuring that extra time isn’t spent on tasks unnecessarily.
Take Function 365 for example, Function 365 Practice Management Software allows you to have multiple rooms and practitioners. Amending appointments is simply done by dragging and dropping them to the new date and time. You can even send an SMS reminder once an appointment has changed to ensure nothing is missed.
First and foremost you have to ensure the Practice Management Software you choose is safe and secure. After all, you’re using it to store sensitive patient data which can’t be compromised.
A patient portal is where all the information about each patient is stored. Some Practice Management Systems offer a basic patient portal with the ability to see the patients details and for them to book appointments. Whilst this is handy, systems like Function 365 go further and allow the patient to take a hands-on role in their care. Once an appointment is booked the patient then provides all the information you, as the practice, need to do their appointment via a smart intake form (setup by you in the admin panel, tailored to your clinical offering). They’re also able to pay for appointments and even packages of care directly in their portal. Making it a real smooth and seamless experience for the patient and also for the practice and practitioners.
Life sometimes gets in the way and we forget things. This is only natural. Practice Management Software is there to mitigate the risk of patients forgetting or simply missing their appointments by sending out appointment reminders.
This is really important especially if it’s not a chargeable appointment. The last thing you want is to waste practitioner time if a patient forgets an appointment.
Here at F365 we offer appointment reminders via email (like most practice management systems) but we go a step further and even offer the ability to send SMS reminders too.
Not every practice management system has a secure messaging system built in. So it’s really useful to look out for this when you’re searching for practice management software. This is vitally important if you need to send messages to your patients that relate to sensitive information.
Here at F365 we offer this feature built in as part of the system so you can always contact the patient but also, the patient can contact you - again, giving them the ability to really take a hands-on role in their care.
This is a pretty standard feature across most practice management systems however some of the metrics you’re able to see are pretty basic so it’s definitely worth checking what information you can report on and see to ensure you’re running your clinic as smoothly as possible.
This might sound simple, why wouldn’t my practice management system be suitable for me in a year's time if it’s suitable for me now? Well, if you plan to scale and grow your practice some practice management systems start out with a really low introductory rate and then bump the price up enormously if you start to scale up in future. At F365 we do not do this. We DO NOT limit features depending on your licence type. In real terms this means from the day you join us you will have access to all the amazing features we offer and as we develop more, these will automatically become available to you, you aren’t charged extra for these.
Ever been on a website or software and wanted to know how to do something but weren’t sure how? Some practice management systems have great knowledge bases and support out there and some don’t. Be sure to check before signing up what support there is if you hit a roadblock! The last thing you want is to be stuck and not sure where to turn.
There are lots of other things (some of which will be unique to your practice) you need to look for when choosing the right Practice Management System. Our best advice is to book a demo and see for yourself how the system works and ask as many questions as you can to ensure you’re making the right decision for your business.
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