How the Best Hospitals Collect and Track Real-Time Patient Feedback

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Patient satisfaction isn’t just an interest for top medical facilities, it is one of the highest priorities so that hospitals can improve upon the quality of the care they provide.

While patient satisfaction is not necessarily uniform in how it is measured or acted upon across facilities, states, and countries, it is collectively viewed as a valuable metric to identify gaps in patient care and opportunities for improvement.

Here are just a few examples of how the best medical systems collect and track real-time patient feedback.

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9 Strategies to Promote Customer Feedback

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Everyone business should theoretically aspire to design a product or service so revolutionary and so meaningful that it will blow the competition out of the water resulting in hoards of customers pouring through their doors. (Wouldn’t that be nice?)

For better or worse, something akin to this is only possible when a company fully understands their customers, their wants and needs, their hopes and aspirations, as well as any pain points they may have.

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California State University, Northridge Launches New Customer Satisfaction Program

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What do you do when you look at your operations and think, “How can we do this better?” That’s exactly what Mike Lennon, Associate Director, Campus Dining of The University Corporation (TUC) at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) thought a year and a half ago.

Mike was interested in finding a way to improve customer service operations, primarily in locations that did not staff in-person resources, such as vending machines and bathroom facilities. He saw an opportunity to implement a customer satisfaction program to help ensure that heavily utilized services like vending machines and restrooms were incorporated into the overall mission to deliver an exceptional campus experience for all students and staff.

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Why Colleges Need to Embrace Social Listening

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For those of us who don’t know, social listening is the process by which someone is searching online sources, be it blogs, websites, the news, and, of course, social media, for any mentions or conversations that would be of any interest for that person.

In other words, social listening is not only about looking at what people are saying to you, but also about what people are saying about you. Simply put, social listening is a form of gathering feedback without having to ask for it. And to put it out there, social media monitoring only deals with what people say to you, whereas social listening does both.

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How to Personalize the Customer Experience

It’s been well established and confirmed that excellent customer service can provide numerous benefits to a company. By delivering a well-implemented and personalized customer experience, that business can almost guarantee that their customers will return over and over again. Here are three examples of how to achieve a great personalized customer experience.

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Why Transparency with Customer Feedback is Good Marketing

Companies that do a good job of responding to online customer feedback reap certain rewards. However, companies that don’t respond to online customer feedback or who do so poorly are at risk for perpetuating a negative perception of their business. People who feel that their opinions do not matter or have no idea if their feedback is received will be discouraged from sharing feedback again in the future. Worse, they may walk away from your business altogether.

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The Ultimate Guide for Using SMS for Customer Support

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SMS messages, or more commonly known as text messages, are an effective way to take your customer support to a whole new level. Texts have a 99% open rate, with 95% read within the first 3 minutes from being sent. What’s more, 89% of consumers would like to communicate with businesses via messaging, but, unfortunately, only 48% of companies support this sort of connection. Messaging also ranks as the number one preferred customer service channel in the United States and among the top three in the rest of the world.

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