India’s leading multispeciality hospital – Woodlands Hospital, now live on Medripple

Woodlands Multispeciality Hospital Ltd is a heritage hospital and one amongst the best multi-specialty hospitals for quality healthcare in Eastern India. Its motto – “Ethical Treatment with Care.”

Keeping abreast of technology in medical science, the hospital has upgraded its facilities constantly since its establishment, for close to six decades.

Woodlands has a team of eminent and best physicians and surgeons, nursing staff and paramedics, along with the finest of technology and state-of-the-art equipment catering to various departments.

The major departments of the hospital are Urology, Cardiology, Ophthalmology, ENT, Orthopaedics, Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Dental, General Surgery, Cosmetic Surgery and Gynaecology.

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India’s leading multispeciality tertiary care hospital – PSRI, now live on Medripple

psri_build1Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute (PSRI) is a multispecialty institute of national & international repute with state of the art facilities. Located in South Delhi, Patients from NCR, various states of India and abroad come here for highly specialized tertiary level treatment.

Established in 1996 as South East Asia’s first and India’s foremost institutes providing advanced comprehensive medical and surgical treatment for digestion related diseases. Presently it is a multispeciality Institute.

The key thrust area of Institute are Gastroenterology, Gastro-Surgery, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nephrology, Urology, Kidney transplant, Orthopaedics, Joint Replacement and Cancer. Its services are supported 24×7 by Blood Bank, NABL accredited Laboratory, Causality, PSRI Drug Store, Radiology and Ambulance Services.

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India’s leading infertility specialist Dr Kaberi Banerjee is now live on Medripple

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Doctor’s Name: Dr Kaberi Banerjee

Qualification: MBBS [AIIMS], MD [AIIMS], MRCOG [London], MNAMS, Commonwealth Fellow in Reproductive Medicine [London]

Specialisation: Infertility and IVF

Hospital: Advance Fertility and Gynaecology Centre
6, RingRoad, Lajpat Nagar 4, Near Moolchand Crossing, New Delhi (India) – 110049

Work Experience: Dr Banerjee is a seasoned Obstetrician & Gynaecologist with more than a decade of experience. She specialises in infertility and IVF.
She has been a senior IVF specialist/consultant at many prestigious hospitals, namely the Max Hospital – New Delhi, Moolchand Medcity – Gurgaon and ARGC in London- known for having the greatest IVF success in Europe.

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Making referrals work – The 4 key strategies of successful referral management

Every tertiary care hospital understands the importance of IPD patients and leaves no stone unturned to make sure a higher inflow of such patients. This covers the entire gamut of efforts right from recruiting the right specialists to investment in latest equipment to corporate marketing and branding programs to the sales teams fanning out to the nook and corners of the country to showcase the unit’s competencies to private practitioners all over the country and the world (for medical tourism)

However shockingly according to a survey by Archives of Internal Medicine, in 2009 105 million patient visits resulted in a specialist referral, but “only about half of referrals result in a completed appointment. Our analysis shows only 25% of referrals are completed as intended by the sending provider. In essence, over 50% of your efforts going waste.

The purpose of this post is to present the four components of successful referral management, gathered over four years and one million referrals across a range of providers.

Technology can be a huge enabler to stem this loss, not to belittle the importance of implementing referrals within existing workflows, as well as the people involved in creating organizational change.

The 4 key strategies being :

• Integrating referral management into the lead management workflow
• Engaging patients throughout the referral process
• Analyzing referral metrics to improve outcomes
• Keeping key players and influencers engaged

Thus any solution that you are considering should be able to take care of all these aspects for it to be effective in turning around the referral to conversion statistics.

Learn how Medripple’s API based referral management solution can be seamlessly integrated into your existing salesforce or hospital MIS tool, help you in keeping the referring doctor, treating doctor, sales team and the patient updated at every step of the referral, create dashboards on the fly and provide you with a facility to create your special interest groups to keep your influencers engaged.

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Why is patient referral management critical for your hospital / lab’s success??

Here are some statistics for you to consider :

-More than 1 out 3 patients are referred to a specialist every year*
-< 25% of patients actually turn up at their intended provider*
-Each general practitioner influences approximate Rs 90 lakh worth of downstream business / year*

Why should these statistics matter to you ?

– 40-60% of your business comes from referred patients
– You loose almost 75% of your potential business due to leakages
– Every new referral doctor added to your network can potentially add approx Rs 25 lakhs to your bottomline

What can you expect to achieve with proactive referral management ?

-20-30% reduction in referral leakage
-13-19% increase in new patient referrals/month
-Upto 70% decrease in time to appointment

Learn how Medripple can help you with referral management and growth seamlessly – Request a demo.

*MehrotraA.Forrest CB, Lin CY, Dropping the Baton: Speciality Referrals in the United States. The Milbank Quarterly: 2011;89(1)39-68.doi101111/j-1468-0009 2011 00619x

*Survey conducted on 2423 patients internally
*Data obtained from 34 general hospitals