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Hidden Savings Opportunities for Healthcare Contact Centers
Contact centers represent an essential arm of the healthcare industry. When patients have questions or concerns regarding their billing and other logistical issues, they need to be able to seek the answers they need without tying up the resources of their physician’s...
Leverage Healthcare Technology to Enhance Patient Retention
If healthcare managers and small-to-medium-sized business (SMB) healthcare practitioners can agree on anything, it’s that acquiring new patients is both costly and challenging. Conversely, retaining existing patients is far more achievable and economically viable,...
Improve Medicare Star Rating Numbers by Teaching Kindness
Recent adjustments to the Medicare star rating system have had a negative impact on countless insurers, hospitals, and care providers. Entities that provide Medicare Advantage Plans have been hit particularly hard, as the adjustments may have dropped their star...
The Impact of ChatGPT on Contact Center Performance
ChatGPT is all over the news, especially since it has been reported that Microsoft may be considering a significant increase to its 2019 investment of $1 billion in OpenAI, the hottest startup in Silicon Valley and the creator of ChatGPT. The $10 billion investment...
Increasing Contact Center Efficiency by Increasing Associate Ramp Speeds
A challenge our clients frequently encounter is difficulty keeping their contact centers staffed efficiently with the right balance of experienced associates and new hires. Attrition is a continuing problem, and it can take up to a year for new associates to become...
The Hiring Game Has Changed: Strategies for Solving Staffing Issues
This article was originally published on Contact Center Pipeline and can be viewed here.While many jobs come with a fair amount of stress, few positions are as taxing as that of an associate in a busy contact center who must regularly handle difficult customer service...
Staffing in the New Normal
This article was originally published on Contact Center Pipeline and can be viewed here. Customer needs, current and future labor shortages, and WFH demand savvier recruiting strategies.Customer contact organizations are being pushed by strong tailwinds yet are facing...
A Thanksgiving Message
Each year, as Thanksgiving approaches, my thoughts turn to the people in my life for whom I am grateful. As always, I am grateful for my family, the Northridge team, our clients and partners, my comradery of peers, and our community.Many people have helped me this...
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Knowing AI Ethics
The healthcare industry stands on the precipice of change, facing a series of interconnected challenges that strain the entire healthcare system. These existential pressures include: Rising rates of chronic/co-morbid conditions Resource constraints including clinical...
The Transformational Power of Quality Monitoring
How a robust QM program can remake the CX. This article was originally published on Contact Center Pipeline and can be viewed here. As customer expectations and channels for outreach continue to evolve, the contact center is becoming more and more complex and...
How Contact Center Quality Monitoring Benefits the Healthcare Industry
The Contact Center is increasingly serving as the face of a company for customers. Contact center associates are often the only people within a company that most customers will ever get the chance to interact with. As such, they are often on the receiving end of...
Automation and AI in Telecom Contact Centers
Ever-increasing customer expectations for telecommunication services make it difficult for telecom service providers to deliver gratifying personalized customer experiences across channels, while simultaneously keeping costs down. To overcome this challenge, telecom...
How to Manage Multiple Evolving Channels
This article was originally published on Contact Center Pipeline and can be viewed here. Effective technology application, agent recruitment and training are critical to help customers conduct complex interactions. In recent years there has been an uptick in the...
Supporting Contact Center Associates to Reduce Burnout and Impact Patient and Member Experience
The COVID-19 pandemic unleashed an overwhelming burden on hospital systems and medical professionals. Tragically, many suicidal deaths among healthcare professionals have been tied to the stress of working through the pandemic. The urgent need to support the...
Best Practices for Effective Telecom ‘Large Deal’ Success
“…[T]here are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know…” – Donald Rumsfeld The Request for Proposal (RFP)...
The Key to Successful Transformation Management
Business models are not static, they are ever-evolving. Telecommunication companies, for example, are in a constant state of transformation as they attempt to stay ahead of technology and product adoption curves. In the telecommunications industry, companies that...
The Problem of Too Much Data: How to Take Action in the Face of Data Overload
Data is everywhere. In today’s age it is now possible to collect charts and graphs and metrics for almost everything we do. But what happens when a complex institution is pulling data from multiple, unrelated sources and needs to get clear, simple direction from that...
Using Data Analytics to Improve First Contact Resolution in Healthcare Contact Centers
In our previous post, we discussed the importance of adopting a data-driven analytical approach to move the needle on patient/member experience, enabling higher CMS Stars Ratings and increased bonus payments for Medicare Advantage plan providers. The benefits of data...
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