Patient Relations

These tips can help keep your patients coming back.

Tips on what to do when you must part ways with a difficult patient.

Even before the pandemic, online medical education tools were taking off in particular specialties.

Patient visits have a direct impact on the success of your independent practice. Here are six tips from the experts to put into action.

These four tips can make current patients long-term ones.

Planning on building an engaging website to attract patients? Here are nine tips that should get you started.

How providers can prepare for new CSM changes regarding CDSM and AI.

How to talk with patients about vaccine concerns.

At this point in the game, you have to know that marketing your practice on social media is necessary, if not absolutely required.

What independent practices need to consider when implementing newer virtual care.

Understanding your patients' behavioral styles can help you customize their practice experience and boost satisfaction. Here's how.

Patient engagement is about involving the patient in their own care. So use one of your key tech tools - your EHR - to help boost that involvement.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Dr. Nada Elbuluk, practicing dermatologist and director of clinical impact at VisualDx, about how cognitive biases present themselves in care strategies and how the industry can begin to work to overcome these biases.

Establishing an emotional connection with patients will differentiate your practice in ways that will be profoundly meaningful and appreciated by your patients.

How your online presence can affect patient volumes and experiences.

Here’s your guide to six common phrases physicians too often say to patients.

How can healthcare providers provide a safe space for LGBTQ+ patients?

Preparedness in the post-pandemic era demands that the healthcare industry disentangle itself from the fax machines, pagers, land lines and other unwieldy implements of a bygone age.

Appointment reminders are a great place to begin text messaging patients. Patients want them, laws (e.g., TCPA) are relatively lenient toward them, and they can reduce no-shows. See how to text message patient appointment reminders effectively.

Here are some steps healthcare providers can take to better serve LGBTQ patients.

Used effectively, new technologies can deepen the existing, trust-based relationships that so many patients have with their physicians.

Why this is especially true for patients with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.

Text messaging is one of the best ways to boost patient satisfaction, increase appointment consistency, and improve care compliance. Texting your patients should go beyond just appointment reminders. And yet, there is more technical complexity and risk with texting patients than other communication channels.

How value-based care strategies can reduce administrative burdens, improve customer service and the patient experience.

The proposed rule, issued July 13, greatly expanded what was known and understood about RTM but still left many questions unanswered.