Healthcare is inundated with data. As an industry, we are obsessed with measuring everything under the sun. The problem? All these numbers do not really tell the story. We need to move away from data for data’s sake and towards quality, actionable data that is easy to access and allows us to act and make good business decisions. How do we get there?
Continue readingAssessments are great. They’re the best “Step 1” for any engagement since they reveal the current state and establish a baseline. Without that baseline, how can you tout all the great improvements you’ll eventually make? But that’s not the whole truth.
Continue readingOkay, so you now know what you don’t know. What, exactly, does that mean? It means that it is now time for the next step: a comprehensive assessment.
Continue readingThe thing is, our clients are busy. Time, energy, and resources get sucked up into the day-to-day responsibilities and operations. That’s when a strategic workshop can be helpful.
Continue readingLook, creating an overall strategy for this issue is a lot to take on. It’s a huge project, we know. But it’s so important to have a long-term vision, and taking steps now to excel at access and intake will improve an organization across the board.
Continue readingRecently, we had the chance to listen to some calls at a client’s contact center. This client has a high percentage of positive responses from their post-call survey, and all of the calls we heard ended with the customers saying that yes, they were satisfied with the quality of their service that day. Still, we ended our listening session feeling a little disappointed. What was our problem?
Continue readingThis month the focus is on recruiting and we talked your ear off (or typed your eyes off?) during the last blog post. But we have a secret.
That was only part of the recruitment process.
Continue readingSince founding Singola, we have walked into a lot of healthcare buildings, and we’re going to let you in on a little secret: we can tell by the end of the introductory meeting if the organization will succeed at what it is trying to do.
Continue readingHere at Singola Consulting, we thrive in a fast-paced environment and love the organizations that want to make changes, update their technology, and provide an ever-better patient experience, but sometimes after doing an assessment we end up being the ones to put the brake on…
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