{"id":2331,"date":"2017-01-06T11:54:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inboundmd.com\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2017-01-06T11:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:54:38","slug":"new-poll-patients-prefer-using-phone-book-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inboundmd.com\/new-poll-patients-prefer-using-phone-book-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"New Poll: Patients Prefer Using Phone to Book Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do patients prefer to book an appointment with a provider?<\/h2>\n

As marketers and technologists helping health and medical practices grow, this is a question we ask ourselves often.<\/p>\n

It’s also one of the questions we get asked the most by doctors, dentists and other health care professionals.<\/p>\n

After all, with the proliferation of new ways to “book a doctor”, it’s pretty easy to feel a heavy dose of confusion and skepticism when it comes to, “what patients want.”<\/p>\n

While our personal and professional experience has shown us that patients use a number of different methods to book an appointment with a provider, we wanted to gain a better perspective on how patients prefer to book a provider.<\/p>\n

Enter Twitter, and their “Polls” feature.<\/p>\n

How do you prefer to make an appointment with a #doctor or #physician?<\/h2>\n

Using the Twitter Polls functionality, we were able to ask this very question.<\/p>\n

We ran our poll over the course of two days. We were able to get over 600 patients to answer the poll, giving us a nice dataset from which to better understand current patient behavior.<\/p>\n

Here are the results:
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InboundMD Poll: How do you prefer to make an appointment with a #doctor<\/a> or #physician<\/a>?<\/p>\n

\u2014 InboundMD (@InboundMD) January 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n