Nitin Chhoda sees a great future when it comes to using the physical therapy software. He shares the benefits and impact it will have on the physical therapy business.
As with any technological advances, there are early adopters and late-comers. Most of us fall in the middle.
We don’t want to try something that hasn’t been tested by a significant number of our peers, but we also know that at some point the technological benefit of making changes will be worthwhile.
For early adopters of physical therapy software, the learning curves were steep and the bugs were significant. Fortunately for the rest of us, physical therapy software now exists that can make your practice more professional, efficient, and effective.
Change is Good
Not everyone enjoys changing the way they do things. In fact, we’re so stuck in our ways sometimes that we don’t even realize that there are other options. As they say, humans are creatures of habit.
But we also react and respond well to changes that teach us new things, once we adjust our attitudes. We are so incredibly adaptable that even when we’re put into difficult and unimaginable situations, we figure out a way to get into new habits.
And the best news is that the staff that take on physical therapy software end up adjusting and eventually appreciating the increased efficiency and ease-of-use that they experience. Clinicians find that automated notes are easy to use and easy to review.
Billers find that once they get the hang of new physical therapy software, they are better able to bill and they even get a better rate of accepted insurance claims.
Overall, the entire practice will become more streamlined. Rather than shifting paper files back and forth, everyone has access to everything when they need it, no matter where they are.
With advances in tablet computer technology, physical therapy software can be taken for house calls and medical records can be updated from anywhere there’s an Internet connection.
Physical Therapy Software is Being Developed for a Reason
Physical therapy software isn’t just some crazy fad that was thought up by someone who is trying to make money. These days, physical therapists, medical billers, and physical therapy management are engaging with software developers to create useful programs.
Anything that makes doing your job more cumbersome may have a solution in technology, and there are a lot of people who want to find those technological solutions.
From the staff perspective, there are many ways that a practice can become more efficient, from better and faster forms of communication to fewer trips back and forth between medical files and the front desk.
The Future of Physical Therapy Software
Over the next decade or so, everyone is going to make the switch to physical therapy software. The only question for physical therapy practices is when to make that switch.
And from the physical therapy management perspective, physical therapy software offers a whole new world of reporting and analysis that will allow for increased efficiency. How often does a referral turn into a new, paying patient? How many appointments does the typical patient schedule? How often do patients cancel and how often are those cancelled appointments left empty?