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Our Journey to Solving the Patient Retention Problem
The Journey Begins We're in 2017 and sending appointment reminder postcards. Well, most of us are, anyway. In an age of digital reminders, shared calendars and banner notifications, the healthcare industry is moving at a glacial pace - at least when it comes to business operations. Here at Klara,… Read more →
Reduce Missed Appointments: Best Practices
The dreaded missed appointment. Missed appointments cost the U.S. healthcare system more than $150 billion a year. Everyone wants to reduce missed appointments and boost efficiency in the workplace - medical practices are no exception. If anything ,medical practices are especially impacted by the… Read more →
Ask a Doctor: Practice Management Tips with Dr. Meinhardt, Founder of California Dermatology Specialists
In our Klara Ask a Doctor Series, we take a look at first-hand experiences of founders, CEOs and directors of medical practices. Klara is on a mission to solve the problem of inefficiencies in the healthcare industry. Our partners in transformation, medical professionals themselves, are leading the… Read more →
10 Steps to Building an Efficient Multi-Location Practice
By:Julie Zuckerman Gessin PA-C, Group Vice President of Clinical Operations Schweiger Dermatology There are many benefits of growing or joining a practice with multiple locations. A multi-location practice has real tangible benefits over solo offices. Some of which include economies of scale,… Read more →
Patient portals largely unused, study finds
Speak to a specialist Can’t get patients to use your EHR’s patient portal? You’re not alone. A recent study from Health Affairs found that 63% of patients have not used a patient portal in the past year. Why are portals struggling to find adoption? The biggest reason, cited by 70% of respondents, is th… Read more →
What We Shipped: 2016 Year in Review
By: Ronan Anand,Growth Product Manager 2016 was a busy year for the Klara team - we raised another seed round, grew our team and added thousands upon thousands of users and end-users along the way. Naturally, growth necessitates change - and while the entire company has evolved over the last year… Read more →
Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Tips to Reduce No Shows
It's estimated that no shows can cost the healthcare industry more than $150 billion a year. To give you perspective: If a pediatric practice sees 100 patients a day at an average cost of $125, with a 13% no-show rate, the practice would lose $32,500 each month. The Medical Group Management… Read more →
Press Release: $3 Million in Funding
Healthcare Messaging Platform Klara raises $3 Million from Lerer Hippeau and Project A to become the Central Nervous System of Healthcare Renowned investors join Klara to bring messaging to healthcare Klara is a professional "WhatsApp" for medicine, building the central communication… Read more →