One thing that all chiropractors have in common is the limitation of the clock. With only 24 hours in the day, and eight to 12 hours in your office each work day, how fast you do routine tasks in your practice becomes one of the limiting factors to how quickly and how well you can build your practice or maintain its operating capacity.

Answer these questions below to see if routine tasks are wasting your valuable practice-building time. If you don’t do these tasks yourself, answer them for your staff.

How long would it take you to find a zip code?
If you had to track down a “dead beat” patient, would you know exactly where to go on the internet to do that? How much time would you invest in this?
Let’s say you have a stack of insurance forms that are awaiting ICD9 and CPT4 codes for medical issues you don’t usually bill for. How long will it take you to find them?
How much time was wasted last month when your case was denied because a patient didn’t fill out an accident report?
You want to have a little marketing reception party for the local attorneys. How quickly would you be able to confirm the addresses of those on your list?
You want to compare information about chiropractic techniques. How long will it take you to do this?

These are just some of the tasks that can waste hours that could be invested more wisely in marketing or building relationships with your patients. An extra 30 minutes a day spent on time-wasting activities adds up to three 40-hour work weeks a year. Wouldn’t you rather spend those three weeks on a vacation than on routine tasks?

Solution the chiropractor Toolbar!

Put that wasted time into what matters most to you – your patients!

The Chiropractic Toolbar is a free downloadable toolbar for your internet browser, MSN and Firefox, that gives you hundreds of resources you need for your practice. For example, if you’re looking for chiropractic software, then the information that you’re looking for is directly and quickly accessible in the Chiropractic Toolbar.

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