Top 10 Must Haves for a Physician Relationship Manager

Top 10 Must Haves for a Physician Relationship Manager

Whether you already use a PRM platform, or you’re considering investing in a solution, it’s important to know the must-haves for securing buy-in and optimizing use. Below we have featured a section of our PRM Adoption Tool Kit — use these must haves for a Physician Relationship Manager to quickly narrow down your best options. 

1. Mobile Access

Considering how much time’s spent driving from practice to practice, and how they’re always competing for facetime with physicians, liaisons must be able to maximize their time in front of providers. Mobile PRM access helps accomplish this goal by making it quick and easy to document activities from the field. 

2. Activity Tracking

A PRM with activity tracking enables you to adjust the types of activities liaisons must complete in the field in order to meet their goals. It also ensures that the most effective activities are happening at the right frequency.

3. Issue Identification

One of the most common encounters in the field involves resolving an issue to garner more business. Thus, a PRM should have: a designated space to log these issues, the capability to alert the persons/departments responsible for addressing them and tracking to show the issues are closed in a timely manner.

4. Campaign Planning

An organized and documented campaign to increase volume/revenue for a service line or introduce a new physician/procedure will ensure that everyone knows what their role is and eliminate duplicated efforts.

5. Profile Management

Not only is it crucial to have accurate practice information (such as locations, phone numbers and NPIs), a complete physician profile can help to personalize interactions with providers. Whether it’s communicating with them in their preferred manner (text, email, etc.), being able to acknowledge birthdays or bonding with them over hobbies, the more information you can keep on file, the more success you’ll have.

6. Affiliations

Determining which groups or medical centers providers are affiliated with will give insight into their referral patterns vs just their standalone volumes.

7. Reporting

A liaison’s job, ultimately, is to be a reporter from the field. Their goal is not only to disseminate, but to gather as much information as possible, so that you and other key stakeholders can make sound business decisions. This requires the regular reporting of their outreach activities and field intel.

8. ROI Analysis

Increasingly, demonstrating ROI has become more important to justify the physician liaison role. The more you’re able to show that your activities are impacting revenue for your system, the more value you’ll add to your employer. 

9. Internal Data Integration

Your internal information gives you inarguable data–i.e. the number of procedures, exams, admissions, etc. that you know for certain took place in your facility. This data can be used as a benchmark to accurately measure increases or decreases in revenue, and as a point of truth when liaisons visit providers. Numbers don’t lie!

10. External Data Integration

External data gives you all of the information that’s outside the narrow scope of what your internal data provides. Getting 100 referrals from Dr. Smith may seem like a great number to you, until you can see that she shares 1,000 patients with a competitor. You may find that there’s an underlying barrier that you couldn’t see with internal data on its own.

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Date: October 20 2021
Subject: Physician Relations
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Amanda Houchins — VP, Sales
Amanda Houchins

VP of Sales (former)

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