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How to build a strong referral network for your medical practice

Health systems and hospitals need to build a high performing and strong referral network as they serve a large community. For most health systems, out-of-network providers/physicians are the main sources for new patients. Hence in today’s highly competitive healthcare market, it is crucial for the health system to build, strengthen and maintain these referral relationships to have a strong referral network.

A strong referral network would need patients, referring physicians and receiving providers to keep a healthy network going. A referral solution has the potential to build a strong referral network. 

Here are some reasons as to why you need a solution to build a strong referral network 

  • Health systems need to reduce referral leakage and ensure they don’t refer patients out of their network
  • Referral coordinators have to ensure timely scheduled appointments for their patients 
  • Health systems need to reduce their no-show rates
  • Referral coordinators need to coordinate care between the internal and external providers for better patient outcomes.
  • Hospitals / Health systems need to create and manage a high performing referral network 
  • To obtain more complete and detailed analytics to improve their patient inflow
  • Track patient status at every stage and ensure referral loop closure 

Healthcare providers need to adopt healthcare IT and embrace interoperability. Therefore, the only way to build this strong referral network is to identify and implement the right referral solution for your practice. 

HealthViewX Patient referral management solution can bring in the following benefits for the health systems and help strengthen your referral network

  • Reduced patient no-show rate
  • Reduced referral leakage
  • Increase operational efficiency
  • Patient satisfaction
  • Increased revenue
  • Streamlined referral life cycle management

Making small changes in the way health systems handle referrals will help to retain the patients within the network. Thus, retaining patients within the network, giving quality care will lead to better clinical outcomes.  HealthViewX patient referral management solution acts as a bridge and enables seamless communication between the referring provider and the receiving provider. It helps in making meaningful decisions on the referral process thus making the change that the health system requires today.

Staying ahead in healthcare technology is imperative as it will bring massive benefits to the day-to-day operations and can empower the practice as a whole. A more streamlined process can lead to patient satisfaction, happier referral sources and patients thus making the network strong through quality care.  Once the entire referral process is fine-tuned providers can fully focus on patient care and relationships with referral sources.

Optimizing referral management will help large health systems and hospitals improve overall efficiency and referral network. Data analytics feature will help providers to understand –  the referral patterns, the highest referring source, the lowest referring provider, no-show rates, referral leakage, missed appointments, etc. HealthViewX works with each of its clients to understand their current challenges in the referral system and tunes the referral process to overcome these challenges and build a strong referral network.

HealthViewX patient referral management is highly customizable and is used by leading FQHCs, Large Hospitals, Dental Universities, and Specialities. Do you want to build a strong referral network?

 Schedule a demo with HealthViewX referral management solution experts today!