Sick of scheduling chaos? These 7 fixes can help.
Surgery scheduling shouldn’t feel this hard. These 7 changes make it easier—and they're vetted by your peers.
When patients delay surgery: A proven 4-step follow-up plan
Unscheduled surgeries are a drain on practice resources. These time-tested strategies can help your team effectively reengage patients and avoid lost revenue.
Hard Conversations: What Is the Best Approach to Handling Patient Cancellations
In the hustle and bustle of modern life, the unexpected can throw a wrench into even the most carefully laid plans — including scheduled surgery procedures. Work conflicts, family emergencies, or just a bad day can lead patients to no-shows....
OR Essentials: Why Your Practice Needs Digital Preference Cards for Surgery
If you’ve ever wondered about the secret sauce that keeps surgical procedures running seamlessly, you’re in the right place. Preference cards are personalized checklists that turn surgical teams into efficient machines. Let’s take a look at how our example doctors,...
Your Ultimate Guide to Surgery Cancellation Policies
Cue the dramatic music and imagine the scene: A bustling surgical practice filled with anticipation, a cast of skilled professionals, and patients ready to take center stage. But just like in any epic movie, there’s a plot twist waiting to...
How To Improve Block Utilization For Surgical Practices
Surgery accounts for around one-third of all healthcare spending, making time in the OR the main profit driver of every surgical center or hospital. But spending time in the OR does not come cheap. While each hospital or clinic has...
How to Organize Surgery Scheduling
Remember the personality tests you completed in high school, to get to know yourself better? It was always a challenge to select the true choice, as opposed to the option that would result in the character description we’d love to...
How Surgimate Automates Communication With Equipment Reps
How many times have you received that dreaded phone call — a surgery has to be canceled simply because the necessary equipment is not in the right place at the right time? Aside from the undue stress caused to the...
How Our Clients Benefited From Using Surgimate Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked all kinds of havoc on almost every aspect of our lives. In a period of tremendous uncertainty and ongoing lockdowns and quarantines, many surgical practices were suddenly forced to postpone or cancel surgeries. Patients fearing the...
How to Encourage Patients to Have Surgery During COVID-19
As many states across the country have opened up, and the “new normal” becomes just “normal,” the number of elective surgeries taking place remains lower than the average pre-COVID-19. Despite assumptions that patients would be banging down the doors to...