Knowledge Knugget: Telemedicine Solution - Top 5 Patient Marketing Tips

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Welcome to today's Knowledge Knugget, as a part of “The Executive Innovation Show” podcast, we’re bringing you the hot topics, questions we receive each week, and game-changing ideas, best practices, and tips. During this week's segment, Justin Knott, President of Intrepy Marketing answers the question - how to market your telemedicine solution. 

So you've picked a telemedicine software, which almost every practice has at this point. If you haven't, you need to get on that very quickly, so you can open your digital doors and start seeing patients again.

As a healthcare marketing agency these tips have been really effective, helping practices adapt to the technology, increase patient retention, start seeing more patients, and scale their telemedicine visits. 

Tip #1 - Place an Announcement on Your Website

It's super easy, but surprisingly people are just still not doing it is you got to get the information up on your practice website. Easy enough again, get it up on your website. So once you've chosen a telemedicine provider, you want to make sure that you have COVID related information that you can deliver to your patients on your website. 

Tip #2 - Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. 

Assume your patients know nothing. They don't know that you're open. They don't know how to do telemedicine because oftentimes that is true. So leverage your social media platforms to put out a series of posts about how you're handling COVID, the fact that you are offering telemedicine, and how they can book appointments.

Tip # 3 - Online Appointment Booking 

Some EMRs out there offer it and you can iFrame it on your website. There's also a lot of HIPAA compliant online appointment booking, softwares that you can integrate. It's just going to make things a whole lot easier when people get on your website to go ahead and book an appointment and receive the information about telemedicine and see you. 

Tip #4 - Text Messaging to Reduce No Show Rates

Next up, Justin Knott recommends that you have text messaging capabilities for a couple of different reasons. And again, your EMR may provide it. If not, I would recommend finding a solution for it.

Tip #5 - Simplicity is Key! 

When looking for a telemedicine provider, make sure you have one that limits the amount of steps required to get them on there. The more likely it is for human error to be involved, which you really want to avoid. Otherwise you're spending more time tech in troubleshooting than you are actually on the point of care for your patients, which is what this is all about. 

Pro Tips

Justin recommends making sure that you have some type of backup telemedicine option and FaceTime or Skype for business. Something like that can be a really easy backup in the event of latency or downtime because telemedicine platforms are being stretched a little bit more than they ever have to say the least. 

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Watch the on demand webinar "COVID Telehealth Adoption: Why Simple Patient & Physician Experience is Critical" and listen to the healthcare podcasts where we talk about all the use cases for telehealth.