Ever wonder how you can demonstrate value to your patients consistently? Or truly understand what patients are saying about your clinic? Today’s expert, Scott Hebert, PT, DPT, CEO and Co-Founder of TheraVid, Inc. shares details on the ways a patient management system can help your clinic demonstrate value to your patients.
A patient management platform built specifically for physical therapy, TheraVid combines home exercise videos with a variety of data collection tools to help physical therapists discover how often patients log on to do exercises, overall customer satisfaction and even how often patients are sharing details about their physical therapy experience on social media. Listen to the full podcast now to learn more and find out how you can be a part of the beta test for this new patient management software.
From time to time, an article appears highlighting a patient’s negative experience with physical therapy. Recently, a Washington Postarticle highlighted a costly, unsatisfactory physical therapy experience. This week’s expert, Ann Wendel, PT, ATC, CMTPT owner of PranaPT addressed this situation in her blog and shares some tips on how physical therapists can avoid this scenario.
To truly understand things from a patient’s perspective, Wendel refers to something she learned in her Pain Sciences course work “the pain is where the patient says it is, when they say it is, and it is as bad as they say it is, because it is THEIR pain.” She states this is critical to really understand the situation from a patient’s perspective and helps a therapist become a partner in their treatment. Listen to the full podcast now to learn why it’s important for physical therapists to explain what the treatment plan is and why certain treatment techniques are being done to help patients understand the true value of physical.
Electronic medical record (EMR) systems provide physical therapists with the ability to access a patient’s complete medical record. But these, systems can offer much more than easy access to patient’s treatments, procedures and prescriptions. EMR systems can help streamline billing, marketing efforts and more. Today’s expert, Nitin Chhoda PT, DPT and author of “Physical Therapy Marketing For The New Economy” and “Marketing for Physical Therapy Clinics” shares details about an EMR option for physical therapists.
The In Touch EMR system streamlines medical records and also allows home exercise programs to be created. Physical therapists have the ability to create their own document templates. The system works with voice recognition and helps simplify Medicaid compliance. The flow sheet gets mirrored in the plan of care and makes sure the billing information is documented correctly. Learn more about the marketing options and other features of this EMR system by listening to the full podcast now.
One of the challenges physical therapists often face is getting patients to comply with their treatment plans. To help ensure patients are doing exercises correctly and to improve home exercise compliance, Mike Roberts MPT, CSCS and owner of Central Mass Physical Therapy and Wellness is using a HIPAA-Compliant app by Postwire Health.
The app makes it easy to capture and share videos with patients. Since using the application, his practice has been able to get more out of each patient visit. The clinic can monitor how often the videos have been viewed and use that data to evaluate patient treatment plans. Find out why he’s calling this app a game changer by listening to the full podcast now.
From time to time, an article appears highlighting a patient’s negative experience with physical therapy. Recently, a Washington Post 
One of the challenges physical therapists often face is getting patients to comply with their treatment plans. To help ensure patients are doing exercises correctly and to improve home exercise compliance, Mike Roberts MPT, CSCS and owner of 