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How To Get More Patients As Well 7 Tips For Promoting Ttelemedicx The Right Way
How To Get More Patients As Well 7 Tips For Promoting Ttelemedicx The Right Way
Dear Nour I belive the patient acquisition cycle starts with acquiring new patients and
keeps advancing with retaining them as your loyal customers, and further keeps on
revolving with getting more number of patients referred by your existing happy patients,
and so on. The fuel that keeps on rotating this cycle to get more patients is derived from
attract new patients to your practice which will cause your practice's growth to stall.
For providing an exceptional patient experience, you'll first need to understand and
stand out on your patients' expectations. Apart from that, you'll also need to market
yourself for increasing trust and confidence among your existing patients in a way that is
Here is a 7-step guide that will help you to get more patients Referrel:
1. Understand patients' needs & expectations
To start with, you should first understand where you lack as a provider. For that, you'll
need to know about your patients' needs and expectations, and your performance on
those fronts. And, who other than your patients could tell you better about those!
Conduct patient satisfaction surveys, or simply look into the CAHPS survey results to
understand what bothers your patients about your quality of care and customer service.
Also, engage into focused discussions on topics related to diagnosis, treatment, staff
communication and hospitality with your patients either face-to-face asking questions
about their feelings (while they go through your treatment procedure), or on social
media chats and patient portals. Check out what your patients are talking about you on
review websites too. By aggregating your notes on all the replies and responses, you
By empathizing with your patients and their concerns, you can understand their
emotions in a more friendly and accurate manner. Although you can directly talk with
your patients to understand their emotions with Your CS team, it's not possible with your
manual efforts to understand and keep a record of each of their responses and do
analysis over them. Also, it's not very likely that your patients will openly share their
emotions with you. Moreover, do you think you'll get enough time to talk over these with
your patients' emotions very well, but also keep a report of them, all done with a
Sentiment analysis tools will assist you greatly on this. It will help you send a survey link
to your patients soon after they leave your office. You will need to include the following
questions in your survey to elicit responses that can be analyzed for sentiment:
The AI technology will do its part by extracting human emotions from written feedback. It
will help you understand exactly how your patients felt about their visits, and spot
While analyzing all the data and information to understand your patients' needs and
wants, and their sentiments, you should also make note of the target audience for each
area based on their demography like age, gender, location, etc. This will help in creating
and executing very specific marketing campaigns and also optimizing your online
both: the actual converts, and the interested prospects. Find below the screenshot of
the Analytics account of one of our dental clients showing the gender based user data
You can see that almost 60% of the total prospects ('new users' section, as highlighted
under the red box) are females. Same is the percentage in case of the female converts
(see the 'goal completion' section highlighted under the red box). This could be because
it's women who typically make the most of all healthcare buying decisions in a
family, which means that the client need to invest more time, energy, and effort in
You can also get specific landing page data from analytics for your different service
categories so that you can know what will help you target your prospects based on their
Brother Nour Most Impotent thing Identifying and understanding your target audience is
the first stage in your journey to get more patients. The next step to do are internal
marketing practices at your clinic focused on increasing patient referrals. However, just
asking your patients for referrals, or rewarding them for it won't provide much benefit.
Moreover, rewarding for referral favors is forbidden in most, if not all states. By
concerns, you can make your referral programs have more effective results.
You can also try some more proactive measures such as making calls to each of your
patients at the end of the day for demonstrating empathy and compassion, or sending
birthday cards, and even inserting customized referral cards with your monthly patient
.Assign the patient referral internal marketing program to a specific employee to fix
accountability. This is more important for clinics or hospitals that are too busy for
marketing.
5. Build strong relationships with referring
practices
Building strong, mutually beneficial relationships with referring practices like PCPs and
other non-specialists will help you get more patients to your clinic. It will take time to
build strong reputation among referring practices. But by ensuring an optimal physician-
to-physician communication and a privileged care to the patients referred by them, you
like to reiterate their medical history every time they're referred to another physician.
Apart from improving upon communication matters, focusing on providing a fast and
effective care to your referred patients will retain them for life long.
Here are a few tips to acquaint you about how to provide privileged care to your referred
patients:
providing quality care to your regular patients. After all, you've to promote internal
referring through them. But the truth is: you have to let your newly referred patient feel
special and for that, the least you can do is to show some extra care to them.
Most of the patients who are referred to you will cross-check your reputation on the
web. If they find bad reviews about you, or if they can't reach your site in the first place,
they'll most likely get diverted for other options, and may even go out of the referral
network for that. In that case, you'll need to have a strong online presence and an
Nour here's what your patients expect to find when they search for you on the web:
Reach you easily on the web – a strong SEO strategy in place will ensure a robust
online presence for an easier reach
Find a positive reputation about you and your quality of care on the web – online
reputation management is the key to build a positive reputation
Be able to navigate through your website swiftly and easily without distractions – a
good website design with a clear UX interface will be needed
Ease of scheduling speedy appointments – a separate landing page with a clear and
strong call-to-action will work
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will want like SEO strategy and Facebook marketing and others too.
A strong online presence doesn't just mean that you get found easily. It also has to do
with the impression that your brand leaves on your patients as the first impression. This
won't be just enough with a stream of positive reviews. You should also focus on
gathering online authority by connecting with influencers and getting mentions from
them. Having multiple mentions from reputed brands across the online space emits a
Influencer marketing also lets you get valuable links from reputable persons,
publications, or companies from your industry. It helps your website rank higher on
search engines, and also get a higher presence and authority on social media too.
For doctors, most of whose customers (or patients) come from their locality, it's
essential for them to form a local community and connect with members on a deeper
level. This could be highly rewarding as having a strong community of patients also lets
You can try various things to build a strong community and get a hold of your presence
in it:
Newsletters: Patients enjoy receiving and reading newsletters that solve their health
concerns. Send out neighborhood newsletters that share tips and information for
health improvement. The point here is to actively engage your patients by providing
an interactive discussion material. Newsletters are also a great way for branding, so
always keep your practice on the forefront of your patients' minds.
Community events: Participating in community events, such as volunteer activities
and neighborhood celebrations can brilliantly improve local networking and establish
your strong presence in the community. The key to success here is to be visible,
friendly, and being supportive to your patient community.
Sponsor events and leagues: Another brilliant way for community relationship
building is to sponsor small fun and sports events and little leagues on at least a bi-
yearly basis. Having a sports team of kids or adults in your practice's name will
immensely improve your brand authority in the community.
Facebook page: Form an online community of your patients. Set up a Facebook
page in your practice's name. It can be a great place for showing off the culture of
your practice from patients' and staff's perspective. Facebook pages are also a great
way to promote engagement by starting conversation on different health matters,
conducting quizzes, and spreading awareness about your activities and events as a
healthcare provider.
Be in touch with various online and offline local news and media houses. Have a
friendly relation with them. Leverage it for getting the news about your participation,
sponsors, and other professional activities published through them for a wider brand
reach.
In the End...
Each of these tips will require specific knowledge and efforts to be carried out
successfully. Some of this knowledge and efforts will come from your practice's team,
while some will be needed from your healthcare marketing team. We have more ideas