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Managing Phones, Emails, & Texts

By Jim Geyer MD, Paul Cox

Communication is essential to success

Telephones—even smartphones—are not communication; phones are tools that we use to communicate with patients, staff members, referring physicians, consultants, insurance companies, pharmacies, and—the list is virtually endless. We absolutely need good communication tools, but tools without skills and training are a waste of money. Failure to communicate effectively yields poor outcomes, unhappy patients, and burned out clinicians and staff. We have to develop good communication protocols and use these in a timely and effective manner. Managing Phones, Emails, & Texts is essential to the success of all medical practices. A user-friendly and powerful communications system ties all of these components together.

Failure to communicate effectively yields poor outcomes, unhappy patients, and burned out clinicians and staff. We have to develop good communication protocols and use these in a timely and effective manner. A user-friendly and powerful communications system ties all of these components together.

All too often, physicians, administrators, and certainly phone system salespeople refer to their expensive phone systems as communications systems. A true communications system is much more than the old-fashioned phone system or even a modern integrated voice-over-internet protocol (VOIP) computer-based system. In this column, we discuss the elements of an effective communications system and ways to fully leverage technology to improve outcomes and satisfaction.

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