Five Ways Your ASC Can Improve The Patient Experience
For ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) that focus on providing same-day outpatient surgical care, the patient experience is one of the top factors that can make or break the facility. A positive experience increases referrals and builds patient…
How to Prepare Your ASC For an Increase in Case Volume
As Americans try to minimize the bite that healthcare takes from their budgets, many are opting for high-deductible health plans that feature lower monthly premiums, albeit higher out-of-pocket costs. In fact, over half (52.9%) of U.S. workers…
How Technology Can Help ASCs Recruit and Retain Top Surgical Talent
With the surge in popularity of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs), recruiting and retaining top surgeons is essential to perform a broader array of services and support growing patient demand. The benefits can be substantial: well-known surgeons…
How Technology Improves Successful ASC Patient Outcomes
As more consumers turn to surgery centers as a convenient and cost-effective alternative to hospitals, ASCs are expanding their list of offerings, adding procedures such as full joint replacements and spinal surgeries. As demand increases for these…
How to Increase Payments and Improve the Patient Journey
Patients who understand their medical bills and are offered flexible payment options are far more likely to pay them. Yet, that seldom occurs in the healthcare sector, where escalating medical costs plague many Americans. Government data estimates…
How ASCs Benefit by Offering a Seamless Patient Experience
Healthcare consumerism is gaining momentum every day. Today, patients expect convenience, access, transparency, and control from all their transactions - including those related to surgical care. This growing momentum around the consumerization of…
How physician-owned ASCs can overcome staffing challenges
This piece, written by One Mnet Health CEO Derek Smith, was originally published by Physicians Practice in July 2022. The use of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) continues to soar as patients and physicians seek cost effective and safe…
Are the Patient Payment Options on Your Website a Dead End?
It is no secret that healthcare providers are struggling to streamline their cash flow because getting patients to pay in a timely fashion is not always an easy job. Medical debt in the United States has become so commonplace that Forbes reports as…
How ASCs Can Navigate Major Staffing Shortages
One of the most pressing challenges facing ASCs and healthcare organizations today is pervasive staffing shortages. While nursing shortages are nothing new to healthcare industry veterans, the Covid-19 pandemic pushed the issue to a critical turning…
Maximizing Time with the Right Technology
Modern facilities have a number of challenges to tackle on any given day. The ultimate challenge is to figure out how to keep improving your services, increasing patient satisfaction, as well as running an efficient and profitable ASC without…
Why Older Patients Are More Technologically Savvy in 2022
In a bid to mitigate the damage of a mysterious global outbreak, governments worldwide implemented a series of restrictive actions to COVID-19 such as lockdowns, mask mandates, and social distancing. This period of isolation had far-reaching…
Derek's Corner: The Significance Of Our New Brand
One Mnet Health - Significance of Rebrand by Derek Smith from One Mnet Health on Vimeo.
In this One Mnet Health video blog, Derek Smith, CEO, discusses the meaning and significance of our new logo (pictured below.)
3 Ways Software Can Take Your Facility To The Next Level
In the modern-day and age, patients — as consumers in everyday life — are highly digitally empowered. As their digital skills evolve and demand for digitalization grows, healthcare providers must make an effort to keep up with the times and adapt to…
How To Create A Seamless Patient Journey
In today’s increasingly complex healthcare landscape, creating a seamless patient journey presents significant challenges for medical facilities. While the quality of patient experience fundamentally depends on healthcare staff, these…
Why Patient Financial Alerts are Crucial in 2022
Healthcare providers across the board, including surgical facilities, struggle to streamline their revenue because getting patients to pay is not always easy. In fact, medical debt in the United States has become so commonplace that Forbes reported…
Derek's Corner: Healthcare Consumerism
Derek Smith, CEO, explains how One Medical Passport and Mnet Health help with healthcare consumerism through powerful technology.
Everything ASC’s Need To Remember About Patient Engagement
As more and more patients seek out reputable ambulatory surgery centers for outpatient procedures, it’s more important than ever that facilities consider ASC patient engagement as a key aspect of their overall communication strategies. What…
The Patient Experience: What Has Changed?
Our parents and grandparents experienced healthcare in a straightforward way. They went to a doctor they respected, were treated for what was wrong, and didn't question the advice of their physician. They usually went to the doctor only when…
Reducing Staff Burden Through Technology
It’s been rough the last few years at Ambulatory Surgery Centers. Staff members have had to take on additional roles when associates have been quarantined. Staffing shortages across the country now make it necessary for staff to multitask in ways…
How Healthcare Consumerism Is Affecting Your Facility
Healthcare consumerism refers to the recent movement in the United States toward patients taking a more significant part in choosing their healthcare. With more options available and individuals taking the time to better educate themselves,…