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Docs With Apps Welcomes Dr. Deb New!

Docs With Apps is proud to announce the launch of the New Smiles compliance app for Dr. Deb New of Rochester, New York 😍😍😍

Orthodontist Dr Deborah New Compliance App

As an orthodontist, Dr. New loves to see patients’ smiles transform and their confidence skyrocket. 🚀🚀🚀

Q: How did you learn about Docs With Apps custom compliance apps?

A: From my friend Kendra (orthodontist and tennis player, like me 😂)

Q: How do you and your team think your new app will impact your patients/practice?

A: We feel it will be an excellent way to help with elastics compliance for our patients.

Q: Having an app in the App Stores is a BIG deal! What was your experience like getting your app built?

A: I was really amazed at how easy it was to have this App built and I’m excited to see the end results and how it will look. So excited to see our patients reactions to learn we have a App for that! 😂

Q: What is your favorite emoji and why?

A: One of my favorite emoji’s is the heart eyes emoji! 😍 Just love em!

New Smiles is a great partner for Docs With Apps… they emphasize:

• Personal Care
• Making Orthodontics Fun
• Leading-Edge Care

These same things are vitally important to Docs With Apps and are the very reasons we began making custom compliance apps for orthodontists.

Dr. New is also an avid tennis player, so that’s a big plus! 🎾🎾🎾

We look forward to a long and happy relationship with New Smiles. 😍

Download the New Smiles compliance app today!

You Have a Custom App… Now What???

Congratulation! You have a custom compliance app from Docs With Apps… what do you do now?

Celebrate!

You have done something amazing for both your practice and your patients. You’ll want to shout it from the roof tops, and Docs With Apps is here to help!

Picture of girl with bracers celebrating her doctor's new compliance custom app at a party

Add a page to your website

This is where you get to brag about yourself. By getting a custom app made for your practice, you are showing your patients that you are willing to go the extra mile for them. Tell them that the app is there to help them establish and maintain their elastic habit.

They will receive four fun emoji-rich reminders each day:

Morning, to put in a new pair
After lunch, to replace them if they’ve been removed
After school/sports, to replace them if they’ve been removed
Evening, to put in a new pair before bed. Add links to both App Stores and you’re good to go.

Post a Docs With Apps Video on your website home page

That’s right!
Docs With Apps can make a video for you to promote your new app. 🎥

Write a Blog Post

Elaborate on what you have written on your website, add a special page or post featuring the links to download your new app, and share the video. 🚀

Send an E blast

Announce the new app and invite your patients to read your blog post, visit your website, watch the video, and download your custom app. And don’t forget to announce it to all your referring docs as well! 🏆

Announce on Social Media

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter… whatever your favorite sites are… make the most of them! Social Media loves videos! 🎺

Office Handouts

You can have fun business cards made to hand out, make a brochure of the website page, have a patient party, have fun! 😁

Ready to get your practice a compliance app?

Let’s get started!

Orthodontic Compliance Officer

Orthodontic Compliance Officer??? That’s a new one… but if you think about it, isn’t that a big part of what we do each day? What conversations did you have with your patients today? ” I need you to be more consistent about coming to your appointments, brushing and flossing, wearing your retainers, and the big one… wearing your elastics.” Because let’s face it… elastics can make or break your treatment outcome, treatment time, productivity, and profitability.

Now that you know your new job title, how can you become the best orthodontic compliance officer you can be?

Orthodontic Compliance Support

In her book How to Be a Wildly Effective Compliance Officer, Kristy Grant-Hart reviews the following concepts…

Motivation:

One of the primary motivators is “fear for self.” The science of persuasion tells us that people are most affected by stories of individuals most similar to themselves. Share a specific example of a patient who didn’t comply with elastic wear and the very real negative consequences that ensued. A patient with a similar treatment plan to yours didn’t wear his/her elastics the way they should have and still had his/her braces on for graduation. 🙀

Compliance:

People connect with compliance when they internalize the answer to the question “What’s in it for me?” Fear by itself paralyzes people, however, fear followed by specific steps persuades people into action. Use if, then statements. If you wear your elastics consistently, then your braces will come off early. 🏆

Expectation:

People have a funny way of living up to the expectations we place on them. Tell your patients what kind of person you think they are. Everyone believes themselves to be a good person, and like to live up to their own image of themselves. I know you can live up to my expectations for elastic wear because you are the kind of person who knows how to get things done. 🚀

Connection:

Time spent discussing the weather, your weekend plans, or the local taco truck is time well spent. Your goal is to become a “real” person. You must HEAR and BE HEARD. Listening creates goodwill between the person talking and the person listening. Did you see The Incredibles 2 this weekend? Me too! Who was your favorite character? 😉🔑

Let Docs With Apps put the final piece of the compliance puzzle in your hands. By creating a Custom Mobile Compliance App for your practice, we are helping you fulfill all of the above criteria with four fun daily push notifications to motivate your patients, improve their compliance, make your expectations clear, and make a connection with them in a way you can’t do during a typical appointment. 😂💪🎉😎

LEARN MORE TODAY!

Can You Afford to Have a Custom App?
Can You Afford NOT to???

Let me ask you the following questions…

How many of your patients are non compliant with elastic wear?
How many require additional treatment time?
What is that costing you in overhead, materials, doctor time, staff time, chair time?
How could you better use that chair time?

Can You Afford to Have a Custom App?
Can You Afford NOT to???

Let me ask you another question…

What could a Custom Compliance App do for you??? I’m glad you asked…

Fun push notifications are sent out four times a day to help your patients remember to wear and replace their elastics.

Push Notification example - Orthodontics

Why four times a day?
7:00am: be sure new elastics have been placed to start the day
1:00pm: if elastics came out for lunch, remember to replace them
4:00pm: if elastics came out for sports, remember to replace them
7:00pm: be sure new elastics have been placed before bed

Why push notifications?
The reminder is fully visible on any screen, including the lock screen
No need to access another program to view the reminder
With close to 200 fun reminders with emojis in our library
(and more added all the time)
Reminders are always fresh and entertaining too! 💥

Your app is customized with your logo, branding, etc.
It is an extension of your office that is with your patients on their phones and tablets 24/7
Your office and your website can be accessed directly through the app
It is available in the App Stores

Kids enjoying their Orthodontist's Elastic reminder App

#AAO2018 Technology Update

Technology in orthodontic practice was a key component of this year’s AAO Meeting in Washington, D.C. I have returned from that meeting even more excited about the ongoing advances in technology and it’s growing capacity to help us succeed in the business of orthodontics! Three of the lectures I attended that I felt excelled in this area were:

Supercharged Technology Update by Dr. Aaron Molen
Becoming a Digital Orthodontist: Top 10 Social Media and Digital Marketing Tips by Dr. Kyle Fagala
Improving Practice Efficiency: There’s an App for That! by Dr. Matt Larson

Orthodontists and patients with their own compliance apps pictured at a table.

For orthodontists of a certain vintage, myself included, the application of technology to orthodontic practice was just emerging as we opened our practices… now it is everywhere, both in our practices and our everyday lives, with the greatest growth potential existing in mobile technology. I can’t think of anyone above the age of 10 or 11 who doesn’t have a smartphone, which would include the vast majority of our patients and their parents.

Research has shown that

In 2008, the average time American adults spent with digital media was 2.7 hours and by 2016, it had risen to over 5.6 hours per day.
In 2013, due to increased access to smartphones, tablets, and laptops, time spent with digital media had already surpassed time spent watching TV.
YouTube, with over a billion active users, reports that it reaches more 18-49 year olds than any cable network in the US.

How should we look to incorporate
mobile technology into our orthodontic practices?

What can it do for us?
Why is it important?

Docs With Apps has the answers! The best way to make technology work for you is with a Custom Compliance App built specifically for your practice. Your app will take your brand directly to your patients where they live… on their phones. By using your app to build a Compliance Program within your practice you are providing your patients with additional support while they are forming the elastic wear habit. By improving their compliance, you are shortening treatment times, increasing productivity and, therefore, profitability. That’s a win for everyone!

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Call 203-533-1316 with any pre-sales questions 🙂

How to Form a Compliance Program

Kids on their cell phones getting reminder notifications

Do you have a Compliance Program in your practice?

Patient Compliance is something that every orthodontist struggles with. It is critical to achieving ideal treatment results and completing treatment on time. In my own practice I have found that the majority of patients want to be compliant, but struggle to form new habits, like elastic wear. Forming a successful new habit can take as long as 60 days. Patients need support when forming new habits.

How can you form a Compliance Program within your practice?

Recognize that your patients need support developing a new habit. 😎 🙌

At their appointment be sure to:

Explain the reason for elastic wear
Allow them time to become comfortable placing and removing their elastics
Give them an adequate supply of elastics
Suggest places to keep elastics for easy access: notebook, lunch box, sport bag, near their toothbrush, etc
Have them download your awesome new App!

After their appointment:

Continue to offer support through your Custom Compliance App

What is a Custom Compliance App?

Your Docs With Apps Custom Compliance App has the following features:

1. Fun push notifications are sent out four times a day to help your patients remember to wear and replace their elastics.

Push Notification example - Orthodontics

Why four times a day?
7:00am: be sure new elastics have been placed to start the day
1:00pm: if elastics came out for lunch, remember to replace them
4:00pm: if elastics came out for sports, remember to replace them
7:00pm: be sure new elastics have been placed before bed

Why push notifications?
The reminder is fully visible on any screen, including the lock screen
No need to access another program to view the reminder
With close to 200 fun reminders with emojis in our library
(and more added all the time)
Reminders are always fresh and entertaining too! 💥

2. Your app is customized with your logo, branding, etc.
3. It is an extension of your office that is with your patients on their phones and tablets 24/7
4. Your office and your website can be accessed directly through the app
5. It is available in the App Stores

I would like to invite you to download our DocsWithApps App
from the App Store and try it on for size…

Imagine the following:

How it would look with your logo and customized for your branding
How it could help you develop a Compliance Program for your practice
How your patients and their parents would respond to it
How your team members would respond to it

Now imagine that:

Overall compliance has improved within your practice
Treatment plans are finishing on time
Your practice has become more profitable and more productive as a result

Let us help you build a Compliance Program today with
your own Custom App!

Pricing Information

AAO 2018 Annual Session Celebration

AAO 2018 Annual Session Promo Code

Dr. Deborah New

Orthodontist

I love the new features! Fun reminders plus a great urgent care solution makes communication with patients so much easier.

Dr. Kendra Remington

Orthodontist

I love having one place where my patients can go to address all of their concerns... new patient forms, phone, website, after hours & reminders.

Nanette F.

Business Administrator

The new patient forms make onboarding patients easy! We get a lot of attention because our app is a useful marketing tool.

Lorraine R.

Treatment Coordinator

A fun way to remind patients to wear their elastics. We see the positive benefits when our patients use our App! It's like we are with them every day encouraging them.

Cheryl H.

Orthodontic Assistant

Gets kids in the habit of wearing their elastics quickly. Positive reinforcement for the win plus patients have a hand in their own success- powerful!

Patty S.

Office Manager

Patients wear their elastics, treatment is finished on time with a great result. Less stress on parents. They do not have to continually remind their kids to wear elastics.

Adi

Receptionist

The app reminds the patients to wear elastics... it rocks!

Danielle

Orthodontic Assistant

The app helps our patients to be compliant, and that helps them get their braces off sooner!

We are celebrating AAO 2018!

To celebrate the occasion, when you subscribe to our newsletter, you will receive:

The AAO Promo Code
Steps to build a Compliance Program for your practice
Tips and expert advice on improving compliance
The opportunity to become a part of the Docs With Apps Ambassador Program

Sign up & improve compliance today!

How Can You Help Your Patients Successfully Form an Elastic Habit?

The idea of forming a new habit seems simple. Don’t we do this when it comes time to make our New Years Resolutions? And again the next New Years? And the next? Hmm… maybe it’s not so simple after all. Let’s look at how to successfully form a new habit. The one I’ll focus on today is elastic wear.

Keys to Developing a New Habit

Lolly Daskal, in an article for Inc. magazine recommends the following steps:

Make a plan. Set up a timeline, hold yourself accountable, reward success, and deal with backsliding. Look for support from others.
Make a choice. Don’t fail from lack of trying. Make the choice to succeed and have the things you need for success close at hand.
Resist temptation. It is always easy to come up with an excuse to “take a break” from the new habit. Consistency is the key.
Hold yourself accountable. It takes at least 60 consecutive days to really establish a habit. Commit and follow through.
Discipline will take your goals and turn them into accomplishments. Set a schedule and stick with it. Remind yourself of the goal… that will be your reward once the new habit is successfully established.

How Can You Help Your Patients Develop a Good Elastic Habit

The five steps listed above are self directed… you helping yourself… How can we restructure those steps in order to help your patients help themselves???

Developing a Compliance Program as a part of your practice is the first step

Make a plan. Your Custom Compliance App sends out reminders four times daily, making your patients accountable. Because the reminders come directly from you through the app, you are providing them with the extra support they need.
Make a choice. Because your patients are never without their phones, you are making the choice for them, by putting your app directly in their hands.
Resist temptation. By sending four daily push notifications, your app is helping them develop the consistency required regarding elastic wear.
Hold yourself accountable. A different message is used each time one of the four fun reminders is sent. By using a push notification the message is always visible on their screen, there is nothing to open. Your custom app will send the reminders to them until they are no longer required providing them with the tools the need to commit and follow through.
Discipline will take your goals and turn them into accomplishments. Using your Custom Compliance App spells success for your patients, shorter treatment times, increased efficiency, and therefore, increased profitability. Definitely a win-win!

Contact us today and let us help you form your own Practice Compliance Program by building a Custom Compliance App for YOU!

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Docs With Apps is proud to announce the launch of the New Smiles compliance app for Dr. Deb New of Rochester, New York 😍😍😍

Q: How did you learn about Docs With Apps custom compliance apps?

Q: How do you and your team think your new app will impact your patients/practice?

Q: Having an app in the App Stores is a BIG deal! What was your experience like getting your app built?

Q: What is your favorite emoji and why?

New Smiles is a great partner for Docs With Apps… they emphasize:

Dr. New is also an avid tennis player, so that’s a big plus! 🎾🎾🎾

Celebrate!

Add a page to your website

Post a Docs With Apps Video on your website home page

Write a Blog Post

Send an E blast

Announce on Social Media

Office Handouts

Orthodontic Compliance Support

Motivation:

Compliance:

Expectation:

Connection:

Let me ask you the following questions…

Can You Afford to Have a Custom App? Can You Afford NOT to???

Let me ask you another question…

How should we look to incorporate mobile technology into our orthodontic practices?

What can it do for us? Why is it important?

Call 203-533-1316 with any pre-sales questions 🙂

Do you have a Compliance Program in your practice?

How can you form a Compliance Program within your practice?

Recognize that your patients need support developing a new habit. 😎 🙌

What is a Custom Compliance App?

Your Docs With Apps Custom Compliance App has the following features:

I would like to invite you to download our DocsWithApps App from the App Store and try it on for size…

Let us help you build a Compliance Program today with your own Custom App!

We are celebrating AAO 2018!

Sign up & improve compliance today!

Keys to Developing a New Habit

Developing a Compliance Program as a part of your practice is the first step

Let’s review the Five Keys stated above

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Can You Afford to Have a Custom App?
Can You Afford NOT to???

How should we look to incorporate
mobile technology into our orthodontic practices?

What can it do for us?
Why is it important?

I would like to invite you to download our DocsWithApps App
from the App Store and try it on for size…

Let us help you build a Compliance Program today with
your own Custom App!