What’s New at Onspire Health Marketing

New! Now accept ACH Payments with Practis Pay

We’re excited to announce that Practis Pay now supports ACH payments. ACH processing has become more important than ever as ACH is much less expensive to process payments. The larger your average payment is, the more savings you see.

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Three Solutions for Navigating Market Changes in Healthcare

No other industry has seen quite the magnitude of change as healthcare. Today, nearly every facet of the industry is radically transforming as our core business focus shifts from illness to prevention. Providers and vendors are forced to transform their practices as they secure a meaningful role in the industry. As I recently shared in an interview with the Kansas City Business Journal, “It always used

CentraSight’s Custom Website is Now Live

Working with VisionCare, Inc, Practis has just launched a new CentraSight website. CentraSight is a small telescope implant that improves the vision for patients with End-Stage age-related macular degeneration, or AMD.

Complying with Section 1557 – What Do I Need to Add to My Website?

Healthcare entities will need to update their website by October 16, 2016 to comply with Section 1557 Section 1557 is the nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act. It states that individuals cannot be subject to discrimination based on their race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. Section 1557 has been in effect since the passage of the ACA and the Final Rules went

Choosing the Right Digital Marketing Strategy for My Medical Practice

Whether you’re a practice manager for a small doctor’s office or an executive for a hospital group, developing and executing a digital marketing plan can be a difficult task. There are a lot of different options – and a lot of them may or may not be effective for your practice. Some of them require a lot of knowledge, some require very little. Some may require

Healthwise E-links – Fruits & Veggies Matter

September is just around the corner, and for many of us that means a new school year, the end of summer vacations, and our lives getting busier again. With the possibility of hectic schedules and added stress, it’s even more important to eat healthy. In honor of Fruits & Veggies—More Matters Month this September, help people get the servings they need for a balanced diet.

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Taking the Guesswork out of Hospital Costs

The Role of the Marketing Team in Hospital Price Transparency After attending a Kansas City Healthcare Communicators Society (KCHCS) educational session, I began to think more about the role of marketers in hospital price transparency initiatives. Participants at the session joined in a lively discussion about consumer expectations for comparative data on healthcare costs. With many providers supporting price transparency, marketers are seeking additional resources to successfully communicate

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Why Most Medical Practice Websites Don’t Work

Remember eight track cassettes? If you’re old enough, you’ll remember they were prevalent in the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, or the mini-cassettes that replaced them. Today if you buy a car and want to listen to your own music, you can plug in or Bluetooth your music files from your phone. Listening to music off on cassettes is out of date. Trying to attract