Virtual assistants to Physicians? Why? Who? When?

Busy attending patients? How do you plan appointments or schedule your day? Who answers your calls, replies to your emails, verifies insurance, follows up with patients, follows up with patients, sends appointment reminders, places an order for supplies, and other supporting tasks that any physician might need help with?

Ideally you will employ full time office assistants to help you with supporting services and you pay a fixed salary with employee benefits. This is a very expensive option and you can easily cut down on the huge salary you pay for office administration and personal assistance by employing virtual staff. This can be made possible with the help of remote private assistants.

Your virtual office assistant can do everything that your in-house assistant does. You will seldom come across a situation when it is compulsory to have an in-house assistant to take care of your private and professional calendar, appointments, office administration, etc. as these can be done remotely. Global economic sues call for cost cutting and hiring remote private assistants is the best and the safest bet.

You need not hire them for 45 hours a week, your private assistant will work for you at your time and at a fractional cost from a remote location and you don’t even pay for the internet connection, electricity, furniture, and other overheads. This concept empowers both virtual office assistants and their clients. Virtual office assistants are freelance professionals who have expertise in their respective industry segments, but are unable to commute to office or work full time. Hence, they work at cheap, per hour rates and do their job well.

Not just personal assistance, virtual private assistants can also manage your accounts, as various virtual assistance providers have a fleet of professionals ranging from secretaries, accountants, to IT professionals. So your work lands up in the hands of expert virtual office assistants and what you get at the end is flawless work.