Once you’ve achieved your goal of becoming a plastic surgeon, you may find yourself itching for more control over your career.

Successful medical practices know effective patient scheduling is more than just setting a date and time. How your practice schedules appointments affects everything from the efficiency of the clinic’s workflow to the quality of the patient experience.

Between providing care and managing a practice, it may feel like there’s no time left to fine-tune your workflow — especially for more delicate interactions such as patient payments. Now, CareCredit and Nextech work together to help streamline those patient payments, so that you can focus on getting your patients to “yes.” Try these four strategies to help you have better cost conversations in your practice.

In 2024, artificial intelligence touches nearly everything we do. Forward-thinking healthcare practices are finding they can serve patients better and more efficiently by leveraging AI in the form of healthcare chatbots.

Every medical clinic, no matter its size, needs an efficient way to organize patient data. If you have a small, private practice, you may think paper charting or a custom-built record-keeping system suits you just fine —– after all, you don’t have that many records to keep. The truth is, even a small practice can get huge benefits from switching to an EHR. Holding out on this technology is doing a disservice to your patients and leaving money on the table.

To encourage medical providers to use electronic health record (EHR) systems, the U.S. government has linked their use to Medicare reimbursement, with penalties taking effect in 2024 for providers not using the technology. But avoiding penalties is not the most compelling reason to use an EHR. The greatest benefits of EHR systems are an improved patient experience and a more profitable practice.

It is estimated that every day the average adult makes about 35,000 remotely conscious decisions each day.1 Some decisions are big. Others are small and almost done subconsciously or out of habit. The decision to have cosmetic surgery or LASIK is a big one and can have life-changing outcomes. It’s important for practices to understand that all along a patient’s journey with you and your team, they are making decisions. So, how can you help them decide they want to move forward with the treatment, procedure, or surgery and want you to help them?

From the moment you engage with Nextech throughout your entire customer journey, we are deeply committed to your success. As part of our efforts to help your practice truly thrive, we provide comprehensive and continual training. Nextech is the only solution on the market that has a proven role-based, user certification process for EHR/PM software. When you complete a course on Nextech Academy, you earn credentials in the form of a badge that you can display on your LinkedIn profile. Badges are issued through digital credential provider Credly. After completing a course and earning a badge, check your inbox for an email from Credly to accept your new certification.