“Artera has given us a better way to talk to our patients, an easier, more efficient way to reach out to patients, and a better way to handle scheduling.”

“In orthopedics, we are all about speed – we want to get people in and get people out quickly. Artera’s automations integrate seamlessly into our EMR and automate parts of our scheduling workflow. Automations to speed up the process, and EMR integrations to simplify our lives.”

“The investment is worth it. With a dedicated Artera team, we don’t just implement the technology and then forget about it - we constantly keep it fresh and updated with new best practices. We’re always using it, keeping it in the forefront of staff and continuing to iterate on our …

“Many of our patients are using their cell phones as a lifeline during this pandemic. [Artera] allows us to reach our patients with essential information about COVID-19 and how to access testing and care through San Ysidro Health.”

“Very few people answer their phones these days, and even fewer check their voicemails.”

“The staff would love for everyone to utilize the texting feature. It’s less burdensome, and it allows them to handle multiple patients almost simultaneously.”

“Managing the portal was quite cumbersome because it didn’t work directly with [our EHR] NextGen. Basically, it was just spitting out a report [of patient responses] that our staff would still have to review, then update in the IT system accordingly.”

“Our patients love (Artera). It’s overdue; we should have been on this a long time ago. Patients can do multiple things, send a text, and not have to be waiting around for a response.”

“We want to make it very easy for families to communicate with us and we know that bidirectional texting is important to them. I think as we start rolling this all out, that’s how our families are going to really want to communicate with us.”

“First, we had to get everybody to understand what each needed and what each could provide, but once we had that straightened out, this kind of integration went very smoothly.”

“Offering the electronic tool as an alternative to human interaction supports patient and family preference and adds value to our organization.”

“There is system awareness now that transportation is a patient need. And because of this data, we’re making headway on closing these gaps by asking questions earlier in the workflow, upon scheduling.”

“It’s just a better way to communicate overall. Sometimes our patients are busy at work and can’t get to the phone, so texting enables them to respond when they can.”

“I don’t think we could have made it through this past year without using Artera as our primary tool for communicating with patients because it made a lot of things possible.”

“What surprised me the most is that there were no surprises, it just happened naturally.”