Improving The Economics of Your Physiotherapy Practice

Improve your economics by improving your care

Improving The Economics of Your Physiotherapy Practice

Whether wanting to improve your work life balance, increase your professional reputation, make more money, or have greater impact on the community you should be keenly interested in improving your practice economics.

Patient care boils down to minutes, everyone gets the same amount of minutes in a day that they have to decide how to spend on patients. To improve your practice economics you need to improve the quality of the time you provide patients.

To pull this off you have a few levers to pull on:

Reduce admin burden

Free up admin time through thoughtful application of digital tools. Generative AI tools that draft clinical notes and letters can be particularly time saving, relieving you of the need to write the first draft and play the role of an editor.

Beyond generative AI there are many companies which provide admin services including solutions for billing, taking calls and reception. You'll have to decide what combination of tools makes the most sense for your practice, and it's worth experimenting with different options to find what works for you.

Avoid writing instructions and pre-filmed exercise videos

The brutal truth is patients neglect written instructions and fail to improve adherence watching videos of good looking models in immaculate studios performing an approximate version of their prescribed exercise.

In the end you are paying a subscription fee to spend time frustrated looking for videos and writing modifier instructions only for your patients to feel demotivated and confused.

We recommend recording patients doing their exercises. This saves you time searching for exercises with the added bonus patients are better able to remember the nuances of their exercise when they see themselves doing it.

Group Therapy

Peer support is a huge motivator for patients going through the same troubles. When facilitating group therapy sessions you are providing high quality treatment to multiple patients simultaneously by using group dynamics to help ease their mental health load and keep them on their treatment.

Consider extending group therapy beyond the clinic. By creating an online group for your patients you give them touch points letting them know they are always supported and reduce chance of churn before their next appointment.

Encourage telehealth

While not the preferred option for all patients telehealth can be a great way to save patients time, increase access and provide clinicians with convenience. Telehealth has been shown to be effective particularly for patients with chronic conditions.

Send Forms Ahead of Time

Any forms relating to outcome measures you need patients to fill in can be done outside appointments. Patients would also appreciate not coming in to the clinic just to have to do the forms.

PhysiPal - Your Clinical Assistant

At PhysiPal we work hard to provide a holistic health practices solution to help with the issues raised above. Easy to fill in forms, patient communities, personalised exercise prescriptions, Ambient AI and telehealth with integrated payments, chat and inline health literacy tools clinicians save between 5 to 10 minutes per patient (and this adds up, we encourage you to do the math for yourself!).

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