By Barbara Betsch

Is your company's portrait depicted by intermittent facts, figures and sporadic data? Is it difficult to get a complete and comprehensive picture?

This can be a frustrating experience when you're trying to develop the right business strategies to grow your practice, but when all of your data fits together like a puzzle, a complete picture emerges - making the right objectives and strategies clear.

Fortunately, you can use AVImark to complete your puzzle and fine tune your business strategy.

The first step is to identify the pieces of data that are important to your business environment, such as client retention rates, customer service quality, security, most performed services, and production by providers.

After identifying the pieces to your puzzle, researchiong and pulling meaningful data and trends becomes the key factor. Using AVImark to assist in this step will not only save time but also will identify weak areas and save resources. Running some of AVImark's pre-set reports can help:

Reports found in the Practice Analysis:

• Client Retention
• Top Performed Services

Report found in Work with Inventory

• Inventory Stock (found on the Inventory Report)

Report found in Work with Reports

• Production by Provider

Report found in Work with Users and Security

• Security User Groups and Functions

Once identification and research is complete, the final step is to solidify the individual aspects to complete the final objective, and create the complete picture of you company's strategic plan.
Suggested implementations could include:

• Using V Surv (and AVImark Partner) to measure client satisfaction for your clinic
• Optimize data using Data Wrench, an MSS solution package
• Measure profitability with production by provider report
• Modifying auditing options in AVImark
• Adjusting staff security levels for AVImark
• Gathering other pertinent information via AVImark's information search feature

Barbara Betsch is a senior technician at AVImark. Barbara can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .