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Top 4 Ways to Appreciate Your Surgical Coordinators

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When isn’t it a great time to show some employee appreciation — surgical coordinators specifically? From our perspective, surgical coordinators have a unique role that helps keep every practice running and patients happy. Listen, Build Trust, and Encourage Innovation Set time aside to listen to your surgical coordinators.

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Let’s Make Surgical Coordinators Day A Thing

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In the very busy world of healthcare administration, a silent force works tirelessly behind the scenes, orchestrating the intricacies of surgical procedures: Surgical Coordinators (who may also go by the titles of medical assistants, administrative assistants, or medical receptionists).

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Surgimate Wrapped: 2023 By the Numbers 

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At Surgimate, we’re thankful for our peers, customers, and surgical coordinators across the globe. More than 600,000 surgeries were created using the Surgimate Platform. We created, promoted, and started the very first Surgical Coordinators Day in 2023, getting over 250 supporters and growing.

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Athenahealth’s Remarkable Interoperability: The Key to Efficient Surgical Scheduling

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It ensures that surgical coordinators have the most updated information in the Surgimate platform. Surgical practices can operate more efficiently. Surgical coordinators can experience less burnout. What sets this collaboration apart is its ability to track a patient’s records and lab results.

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Your Ultimate Guide to Surgery Cancellation Policies

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It’s like a cheat code for surgical coordination – saving you from headaches and keeping the drama to a minimum. It’s not just for surgical coordinators. Which Practices Need a Surgery Cancellation Policy? In the grand scheme of things, if you’re running a private practice, you need some sort of policy.

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Hard Conversations: What Is the Best Approach to Handling Patient Cancellations

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Build A Patient Reminder System into Your Workflow Establishing a patient reminder workflow (whether it’s automated or built into your surgical coordination checklist) will help prevent no-shows. All of these reasons. however, still results in a reschedule, cancellation, or a patient simply not showing up to their surgery.

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OR Essentials: Why Your Practice Needs Digital Preference Cards for Surgery

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What’s Included In a Surgical Preference Card? The patient, doctor, and surgical coordinator aren’t too happy. Stand-alone preference card systems may seem like the way to go, but unless it’s integrated with your surgical coordination platform , it may be a little over the top.

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