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Monday, September 13, 2010

Phone Answering Services for Physicians

A number of businesses and professionals have turned to outsourced live phone answering services as a means to answer calls after business hours and during holidays. Clients have been proven, to stay on the line longer and leave a message when they are dealing with an actual person, as compared to a voicemail recording.

Call answering services have been very beneficial to medical practitioners, such as doctors, who spend most of their time outside the office, attending to hospital rounds and other fieldwork which may need their expertise. The office is often left unmanned. As is in business, each call made to the office is considered as the life source of any operation. Clients may contact the clinic at any given time and will be disappointed to reach a machine when they need to make a doctor's appointment or to schedule a visit. In most cases, medical offices hire a receptionist to screen all calls, take down messages and relay them to the physicians. There is, however, a cheaper alternative.

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies are also offering inbound answering services, specially customized to fit the needs of the medical industry and its practitioners. When you choose to partner with a call answering company, you minimize, if not prevent, future complications which may result from missed business calls. Your clients and patients will always hear a professional operator on the other line.

With this feature in mind, there are a number of benefits which answering services can provide a medical practitioner, among which is cost efficiency. Partnering with an inbound call center allows each business establishment to save on their operational and training expenses which they will incur if they choose to hire and train in-house staff.

Also, medical offices and practitioners are ensured to have their own 24-hour answering service wherein their phones will be manned and answered professionally during peak hours, after office hours, weekends, and holidays. All answering service call representatives are trained to handle medicine-related calls. Some inbound call centers even hire nurses, paramedical graduates and those who have worked within the medical field as secretaries themselves. You are ensured that all calls coming in to your office will be answered as professionally and as timely as possible.

One other benefit is that patients and clients may leave their doctors messages at any time during emergencies, while the doctor is out making house or hospital calls. With the outsourced staff having medical background, cases wherein first aid information is needed may be provided on the spot. Medical practitioners may also leave instructions with the call representatives on what to do when a certain situation arises or who to refer patients to when he or she is out of town or is unavailable.

Customer service call centers also provide you with a back-up call representative in case your primary call representative calls in sick or is not available for work at a given time. The back-up call representative undergoes the same training as your front liner and has, if possible, the same background as his primary representative counterpart.

In the long run, partnering with inbound call centers with which you outsource your call answering services to will be beneficial to your business as a timely and efficient call answering service eventually means happy customers. Taking care of your clients will greatly benefit your business as they would most probably recommend you and your practice to their family, friends, and colleagues.

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