Innovative Dentist Guide Connects WebMD’s 54 Monthly Users With The Dentists
That Offer The Specific Services & Strengths They Want
PatientFYI (www.patientfyi.com), an innovative, free Website that promises to transform the way patients select dentists, announced this week that its “Find the Best Dentist Near You” tool is now accessible by WebMD users on the industry-leader’s “Find a Doctor” tool and Oral Health Center.
“The internet has dramatically improved the way sellers present their strengths, and buyers make more informed decisions, in every industry except healthcare,” said Jason Szczuka, President of PatientFYI. “PatientFYI is bringing these same improvements to the over 80% of patients that want to use the internet to find the best doctors for their specific needs,” said Szczuka.
PatientFYI’s Practice Profiles, for its participating Dentists, are also beginning to appear in top placements within Google and Yahoo! searches by local patients. “We’re excited that PatientFYI is being used by so many patients to find the best dentists for their specific needs, and that our Dentists are using our Patient Experience Referrals to help improve their other patient-marketing activities – both online & off,” said Szczuka.
PatientFYI’s breadth of information, coupled with its robust search capabilities, empowers patients to quickly find the best dentists for them – by identifying the criteria they are most interested in; including the technologies & techniques utilized by the dentist, dental services offered, payment options accepted, and referrals from other patients that received the same service. “In essence, patients can now learn in under two minutes what would otherwise take over two months of interviewing dentists to learn,” said Szczuka.
In addition to the 90% of respondents interested in learning what types of advanced technology a doctor uses, according to a recent survey conducted by Opinion Research Corporation, 83% of respondents stated that they would even switch Doctors based on the information they find on a website such as PatientFYI – with over 56% of them willing to pay more for a doctor they know delivers outstanding services.
“Before PatientFYI, access to the information patients wanted to know was too fragmented, and the best dentists ability to standout for the services & strengths they offer was too limited,” said Szczuka. “Now the most informed patients can find best dentists for their needs in less than 30 seconds,” said Szczuka.
PatientFYI’s collaborative approach also provides doctors with the flexible online presence capabilities that many have been seeking. In addition to doctors being able to quickly update their Practice Profiles, PatientFYI’s service-specific referral tool was developed in collaboration with both dentists and patients. This unique feature, unlike the unstructured blogs that are proliferating across the Web, even includes the ability for patients to submit a referral in paper format and empowers these participating doctors to post constructive responses alongside any referral they receive.
“With 69% of current patients saying they would submit a Patient Referral if asked, and nearly 70% of new patients wanting to consider a doctor’s response to these comments during their decision-making process, we clearly saw that the generic, one size fits all, approach taken by most websites today was not meeting the needs of neither patients or doctors,” said Szczuka.
PatientFYI anticipates rapid expansion into many other medical specialties. “We believe consumers will agree that PatientFYI enables them to select the best doctor to serve their needs, and that there are many other categories that consumers are researching online -which we intend to quickly include,” said Kelly McCrann, Chairman of PatientFYI.
About PatientFYI
PatientFYI leverages the power of the Internet to advance the way people select the best healthcare provider to serve their needs, and provides a new way for providers to highlight their practice capabilities to potential patients. Through its comprehensive offerings, PatientFYI transforms how patients find healthcare professionals and doctors & patients build enduring relationships. By providing unprecedented information on healthcare providers’ practice capabilities, service pricing and patient satisfaction, while fostering dialogue that strengthens the patient-professional bond, this uniquely deep resource empowers consumers to make more-informed decisions regarding healthcare providers. PatientFYI also gives healthcare professionals a cost-effective way to dramatically increase patient referrals and disseminate key information about their practice – specialty areas, technology, prices and more – while enhancing patient care through improved communication.
Media Contacts:
Jason Szczuka
PatientFYI
President
949-725-0118
[email protected]
Website: http://www.patientfyi.com/
Address: PatientFYI L.L.C.
P.O. Box 52916, Irvine,California (CA)
