Tag: Manual

No More Manual Processes in Healthcare! Web Applications Serving Flawlessly

In the age of mobile and web networking when most businesses and services sectors are going digital, healthcare sector is left no more. They are deploying web portals, mobile applications or software systems to cut down manual processes and streamline day-to-day operations. Expert developers with forte in PHP and other web frameworks are creating complex online applications to computerize major processes and create an effective database. Such apps act as online portals, through which healthcare organisations, doctors, staff can manage patients data, set up data standards and channel information from department to department.

Read below the following points to know how desktop applications build with customisation help healthcare sector to develop an information infrastructure.

#1 One-stop point to store all patient information

For healthcare institutes, keeping up-to-date patient information is very essential. Hence, it should be made easily accessible anytime. The clinical web applications are specifically made to help institutions store securely, access data and handle the vital records of the patients. Everything, from diagnostic reports to medication and treatment details, all get saved safely.

#2 Online appointments

Big health centres and clinics can take appointments easily online through their website portal. Hence, there’s no need for manually taking calls and keeping separate appointment register. Clinic managers can simply book the appointments, schedule them on different time slots and even get paid advanced online.

#3 Efficient Reporting

With powerful data analysis system over online, medical institutions can now have efficient reporting systems. With all real-time data of patients available at one place, they can easily generate reports to study the trends like increase in patients visits, most diagnosed diseases, medicines most demanded and prepare progress charts of patients.

#4 Easy dispensing of diagnostics reports

Web applications even enable the clinics’ managers to dispense diagnostics reports to patients online, and allow them to download and print them. This actually turned useful because it’s seen in many cases, the patients’ family didn’t have enough time to visit the centre to collect the reports

#5 Offline capability

Web application portals are customised in a way to offer offline facilities to the healthcare. They are specifically made with minimal offline capability, so that staff and physicians could access clinical records safely, view docs of different departments, and know about any recent claims.

Hospitals and healthcare management have always been labour-intensive and complex. Apart from handling wide-ranging departments, what bothered the hospital management is keeping a vast amount of patients record safely and securely at one point so they can be easily retrieved when needed by either party.

A complete clinical desktop application, tailored to healthcare services takes care of all that! It is cutting back the time taken in manual systems i.e. recoding patients data, dispensing reports, prescriptions, Besides, it is also helping patients to avail some prior services online, which saves a lot of their time.

The House Cleaning Business Startup Manual – Part III

Advertising

Spread the word. Let friends and family know that you have started your own home cleaning business. Ask them to spread the word at work and wherever they go. Personal referrals can help at this level to get the first customers. Serve the first customers as good as you can. These customers can be the make or break foundation. If you treat them like king they might refer you to their friends. Word of mouth is the most successful form of advertising for small businesses of that kind. “Word of mouth” can carry your business further and also help to cut down on marketing expenses.

Business Referral Program: I already mentioned the “word of mouth” advertising. Taking this a step further can really help your business to take off. Implement a referral program. Pay customers if they refer new customers to you. This can be in form of cash or free house cleaning services

Start advertising in local newspapers: Concentrate on the smaller local community newspapers and less on the large metro area newspapers. Pricing will be much more affordable. A local news paper in the area where I live gets distributed to about 75,000 residential customers (not households). A business card sized ad in a reasonable location costs around $95.00 per week. You can also just work with classified ads. These ads run anywhere from $10.00 per week to around $45.00 per week. If you can – don’t choose the weekly run, but go for a monthly or quarterly deal. Don’t try to put too much information into a classified ad. Keep it short, but easy to understand. Example: “Affordable house cleaning services. No job too small. Free estimates. (123)-555-1234”

Magnetic Signs or decals for your Vehicle: If you drive a decent looking vehicle use it for advertising. If you drive an old, rusty looking piece of the 80’s – skip to the next section. Car advertising can be very effective if you follow some basic rules. It has to look professional. The message has to be short and easy to understand. Do not drive like a maniac when having advertising for your business on your car. Magnetic signs can be purchased for around $75.00. Decals are available starting at around $25.00. Look at other cars that carry an advertising message to get ideas of what to do.

Flyers: You could print nice looking flyers on your home computer, but I recommend to rather spending a little money on professional printing. Design a flyer first. Then talk to local print shops for pricing. You can also check out Internet printers like http://www.gotprint.com. 1,000 (color print) flyers at Gotprint.com will set you back around $125.00 + shipping. Try to beat that with your home computer. Paper, ink, time, and wear and tear will cost you 2 or 3 times as much. How to distribute the flyers? Start with hanging flyers on bulletin boards in supermarkets and coin laundries. Ask store owners in your area if they are willing to show the flyer in their store somewhere (if appropriate).

Do not put flyers on car windows at local groceries stores and businesses. You might violate local laws or property owner’s permissions. Rather spend a morning in large residential areas and walk from door to door and place the flyers at the front door (bring plenty of scotch tape). You can even go a step further and ring door bells and drop of flyers in person and mention that you are expanding your services to that area to see if people are interested. DO NOT put flyers into mailboxes – that is against federal law.

Have you ever seen those advertisement door hangers? Pre-printed door hangers are pretty much an extension of hanging flyers at front doors. They are already shaped with an opening for the doorknob so that they can easily be put on a doorknob when walking by. Scan the Internet for best pricing or talk to local print shops. We do not endorse a specific shop, but we have seen prices for about 5,000 door hangers for $189.00.

Business Cards: Business cards can be a very effective marketing tool. Check out different websites on the Internet. Often these websites (like Vistaprint.com or Gotprint.com) have online tools to design your business cards on their website. Always carry business cards with you and use them frequently to market your business. Keep in mind – it is a little more cumbersome reaching a large group of people with business cards compared to using flyers.

Internet: Get a good domain name and have a website build for you. More and more people search for service providers online. It starts when being in need of handymen and does not end with finding a reliable house cleaning service. A website and an email address also leave a good impression on your business cards. Statistics show that a lot of working women shop for services around their house online while at work. Purchase an online listing in your local yellow pages. The Yellow Pages are still a great way of advertising your business. The online version on the Internet is gaining more popularity compared to the print version and a listing online will help you to get more customers.

Exit mobile version