We are all now familiar with the term Cloud computing, or being on the Cloud, but many clinicians and business owners are often still not fully aware of what that actually means, or the real advantages that Cloud delivers for them.
Of all of the technological innovations in recent years, digital signatures can be one of the hardest to really understand. How can a scrawl on a e-pad or a computer generated signature replicate what we have come to understand as legally binding signatures?
If you are looking at Practice Management Software then you are almost certainly looking at an online Portal too.
Online engagement of customers is essential for any modern business to grow. For the clinical and dental sector this is even more of an issue. Once they have joined a practice, patients are not generally casual shoppers, but clients with whom we develop a relationship that will ideally last for years and grow to include entire families.
Prepared? You should be!
With each passing week it becomes clearer and clearer that there is unlikely to be an end to the current instability any time soon. As restrictions on movement are paused, rolled back, stepped forward or even abandoned in favour of full-lockdowns in some areas, we are all learning and adapting in real time to ongoing change.
Most practices have been digital for some time now, but not all digital solutions are the same. Unless you have a Cloud-based practice management solution which allows you to access every aspect of your business – from a patient’s entire clinical history; your ADY by practice or treatment; treatment plan uptake; cashflow breakdown; or an analysis of your appointment book performance – then you cannot really control or direct your Practice remotely.