As a busy rehab therapist juggling multiple responsibilities, from managing patient care to dealing with personnel issues to running a business, do you ever wonder what the best path to success is for you? Absolutely! And those are just three of the many complex challenges you tackle daily. Finding the right path is challenging, but…
By Faith Francis, PT, MBAClinical Solutions Consultant, Net Health Patient lists and schedules are like maps around which acute care rehab therapists navigate their day. And just as maps and the way we use them have evolved throughout the digital era – connecting drivers, providing continual updates and alerts, and varying routes based on current…
While healthcare practitioners are not equipped to appropriately address patients’ social situations, understanding a little about the various factors and challenges they face in their daily lives can open the door to more positive patient interactions and outcomes. And since such factors play a greater-than-expected role in patients’ health outcomes, considering these appropriately titled “social…
Emphasizing the clinical benefits and overall ROI provides data leadership understands and needs With the financial and operational pressures on hospital and clinic administrators today, finding ways to validate the value of programs and services offered has become a necessity. Quantifiable ways to show value are essential in everything from quality ratings and documentation to…
As attendance totals pushed 15,000 each day of this year’s APTA Combined Sections Meeting (CSM), held last week in San Diego, our Net Health team welcomed hundreds of rehab therapy practitioners, owners, educators, leaders and students into our vendor booth to discuss the myriad ways technology can benefit them as well as their professions. Each…
Net Health believes in rehab therapy, and we believe in its power to transform individuals and society. That’s why we continue to support the work of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) by sponsoring and attending this year’s Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) in San Diego – the largest annual gathering of rehab therapists in the…
By Doug Cundiff, MPT, MPHVP of Hospital Therapy Solutions, Net Health Read the room. When trying to engage one person or a crowd of people, this is one piece of advice that tends to stand out. Even the most well-intended plans and the most fascinating talking points, after all, are only going to appeal to…
By Cathy de Verteuil, PTSVP Account Management, Net Health I have been a physical therapist for more than 30 years. And while I no longer treat patients, I still care deeply about my profession – and healthcare in general. In our country, what we in the healthcare community do is regulated by not just our…
Since 2017, physical therapists whose outpatient clinics are located in rural, medically underserved, and health professional shortage areas have been able to hire a qualified substitute provider (aka a locum tenens) on a short-term basis.1 Currently the locum tenens program in Medicare allows these physical therapists and a discreet list of physician types to hire…
If you could see the future, what information would be most useful in helping you optimize efficiency and revenue at your outpatient rehab therapy clinic? Certainly, the ability to foresee significant changes in the healthcare market, or even predict major disruptors like the recent pandemic, could help in long-term planning. But what predictive knowledge, if…