You are a busy doctor or business owner, so why should you take the time and trouble of setting up your own website?  TechVantage Billing Solutions can design, host and maintain a website for you!  We offer every level of service and can customize a plan to meet your individual needs.

Why you must have a website....

In the past, getting on the Net meant learning how to surf the Web, and having your own email address was considered to be a status symbol! However, today, this is no longer enough – you need to have your own Website! This rapid pace of change is symbolic of how quickly things are changing in today’s world – and doctors and businesses who are not proactive are likely to get left behind!

As a doctor....

• Your website lets you provide value-added services for your existing and new patients or clients, by providing details as to the hours of your practice and how to get there.

• It also allows you to answer routine queries by email. Patients are thirsty for information about their illness, and many will use the Net to find information. However, most patients would much rather get information from their own doctor, and if you provide this information on your website, your patients know they can trust it.
• Your website will also save you a lot of time! Most doctors have now started seeing patients coming with Net printouts of pages and pages of unreliable and irrelevant information. If you put up your own website, you can guide your patients to reliable sources of information – thus saving your patients the frustration of wading through pages of garbage and misinformation!
• Remember that patients want information; by providing this information, you establish yourself as a credible expert.
• You can “refer” patients to your website at the end of the consultation, so they can educate themselves . Patients appreciate this – and word of mouth will help you get more patients.
• Your website can help you to attract new patients. A website is very valuable for informing potential patients of your medical expertise.
• It has become routine for patients to do “ research “ about their doctors and your website can help patients to find you!
• Remember that internet positive patients may be slightly different from your average patient! They are well-informed, used to getting second opinions, and can be quite demanding. Most are affluent, and know exactly what they want.

• Your website can be an excellent form of continuing medical education for yourself. Because you may wish to participate in the update of your website, you need to source the latest medical information.

You need to have realistic expectations of what your website can do for you. Don’t expect patients to start pouring in the day your website goes live! Just having a website is not enough – remember that there are over a million websites out there and your site will need to be promoted actively. Online promotion usually means registering the site with all the relevant search engines, so people can “find” you. TechVantage will handle these task for you!

Offline promotion is even more important, and you need to tell everybody about it. Print the website address ( URL ) on your business cards and your stationery – and display it in your waiting room.

Some doctors are worried that having their own website may be misconstrued as a form of advertising. However, the internet is a very valuable means of educating patients, and doctors need to be in the forefront of providing reliable information to their patients. After all, if you don’t take responsibility for educating patients, then who will ?

The future of medical care is e-healthcare, with the promise of online medical records, online pharmacies, telemedicine, patient education, and an ever-expanding list of exciting opportunities. The opportunity to help your patients navigate the wealth of information on the World Wide Web and better educate themselves is now in your hands, TechVantage can help!