Tuesday, April 6, 2010

New Technology is helping Call centers serving Healthcare industry to stay ahead

In any medical emergency worldwide, call is the first step to reach for Medical help successfully, there are other communication available like SMS, Text email, but it’s nothing good as calling for help, because it’s very interactive and you know that the help is coming which would relax you in such situation. The new technology from wired communication to Radio communication has given great flexibility to operators to select from, each technology has its own advantage, today VOIP ( voice over Internet ) has been in great demand, the systems are easy to integrate and economical to operate.

It would be difficult and expensive for medical centers and doctors to operate one, outsourcing this part of the service allows them to focus on their core activity which is treating patients, because you never know when volume of calls would increase, so you need good company to manage Telephone answering service , you cannot put medical emergency calls on hold playing sweet music or your local FM radio channel. At the same time you cannot manage to keep several phone attendant on job, not knowing how much call volume you might get, dropping single call could be disastrous for the hospitals and patients as well.

Some of the basic service offered by Healthcare call centers are Call Center & Switchboard management solutions, Doctors appointment scheduling service, Appointment reminders to patients, Conversation Logging & Recording service, Emergency paging service, managing Alerts and Notifications. Call4health one of the recent awarded Call agency which caters to health care industry provides Doctors Answering Service, it manages 24 x 7 call center and answering services the agents are local American natives, they accept credit card order from patients who wish to schedule doctor’s appointment and would prefer to pay via credit card. This improves productivity and customer service.

The company has excellent infrastructure and support team, it has software which could integrate existing electronic medical record ( EMR ) and practice management systems without additional hardware and software.