To say that wellness practitioners have a lot of balls in the air would be the understatement of the year.
Between providing personalized care to meet the holistic needs of every client, dealing with the day-to-day administrative realities of running a practice, and growing a thriving business, it’s easy to put yourself at risk of burnout.
That’s why I’m a big proponent of having a solution in place to ease administrative load allowing you to spend your time and energy empowering your clients to live better.
Founded in 2016, Practice Better offers comprehensive practice management software for health and wellness practitioners.
Its features include scheduling and appointment management, telehealth, charting, billing, client engagement, online programs, payment processing, and more.
The platform is designed to help practitioners who want to save time, reduce administrative burdens, and provide better care to their clients.
Practice Better is an industry-leading practice management solution for health and wellness professionals looking to achieve better care, outcomes, options, and accountability.
They offer support that frees you to customize, tailor, andautomate amazing customer experiences that works best for you and your practice – whether you specialize in nutritional care, health coaching, behavioral health, functional medicine, weight management, rehabilitation, lactation, or general wellness care.
Practice Better is designed to give you a seamless experience, with everything you need to build and grow your practice – including scheduling, booking, meeting, and billing.
And, it’s also built to give your clients a stand-out experience, supporting all the ways you go above and beyond for them, including customizable food tracking, private feeds for client engagement, scheduled chat features, and more.
The Practice Better team thinks “beyond the platform” to offer its inspiring community of practitioners opportunities to learn, connect, and engage with experts and each other.
● Frequent community webinars expose practitioners to new ideas around expanding their impact and reducing the barriers to better health.
● Annual large-scale events, like our Programs Summit and Better Business Essentials, to bring together thought leaders to help develop your business acumen
● A private Facebook group gives members on paid plans the opportunity to connect and collaborate with thousands of like-minded coaches, practitioners and experts.
● The Practice Better team maintains a helpful resource center where they continually publish high-value content covering topics ranging from how to build a high-converting landing page to tips for overcoming imposter syndrome.
Booking
Want to streamline client bookings? Practice Better’s appointment scheduling software improves the experience & keeps you in control of your calendar.
A key feature? You can stay organized across calendars by synching your iCal, Google, or Outlook calendar to streamline your business and personal appointments.
Billing
Give your clients flexible payment options that work for them and ensure you get paid on time.
With Practice Better you can require full or partial online payments by linking your Stripe or Square account, collect credit card information and offer payment plans at booking and include automated receipts, coupons and refunds.
Telehealth
With their integrated, HIPAA-compliant Telehealth, you can launch secure one-to-one telehealth sessions directly from the mobile app or web browser without leaving the platform.
Mobile App
Practice Better offers you (and your clients) a mobile app so you can support clients while on the go!
Features Worth Noting in Practice Better
Practice Better offers so much rich functionality that I can’t possibly cover it all in one post.
I’d encourage you to go and explore the features on their website if you want to dig in. Or, better yet, sign up for their free 14-day trial to take the features for a test drive.
Charting and Protocol Templates
Practice Better offers a library of templates to save time charting and crafting recommendatsions.
Templates that can be customized for your profession, business, and client needs to be used over and over.
Dispensary Integrations
Practice Better makes it push-button easy to create protocols using dispensary products and let clients order them directly through the portal.
You simply link your Fullscript, Wellevate, or WholeScripts account to the platform and you’re good to go.
Lab Integrations
Seamless integrations with Evexia Diagnostics and Rupa let you stay in the flow of work by ordering, receiving, viewing, and sharing lab results right from your Practice Better portal.
The latest Programs Refresh added some great new features to Practice Better that make building and running programs a breeze.
Here are some highlights:
● Fixed date or evergreen programs - Run a program around a particular date, or hold ongoing enrollment, whichever suits your goals.
● Self-paced programs - Clients can complete modules at their own pace. New content is unlocked when a client marks a module as completed.
● Email-only programs - Creating email-only programs is now even easier thanks to the addition of email-only modules.
● Quizzes - Tap into the power of quizzes to engage your program participants, help them retain important information, and assess their progress.
● Sections and sub-modules - Use sections to organize content into easily digestible portions.
● Archive, auto-archive and unregister - Reduce clutter by archiving completed programs and auto-archiving or unregistering participants after they complete your program.
● Analysis and reporting - Track client progress, engagement, and the completion of forms, tasks, and quizzes.
Client Portal
The Practice Better Client Portal gives your clients everything they need to thrive, in one (HIPAA-compliant) place.
Clients value having one consolidated place to track progress, find resources and communicate with their coach/practitioner.
Apple Health Integration
Practice Better integrates with Apple Health to enable clients to sync important health data directly from connected sources (Apple Watch, Garmin, and Oura Ring) in theHealth app directly toPractice Better’s Food and Lifestyle Journals.
Practice Better has four plans to choose from – from the free Sprout Plan for those just starting out to a Team Plan that covers up to 100 practitioners.
Here’s the awesome thing about their free trial: You can test drive the plan that best fits your business goals. For example, if you want to explore Evergreen programs that clients can enroll in at any time, you can free trial Practice Better’s Plus Plan for 14 days.
You can check out the plans and what they cover at the link below. You can also use that link to sign up and start your free trial.