Don’t get your nose out of joint over this article. I’m going to bend over backwards to help you understand what fantastic uses there are for i-pads and computer tablets in the world of chiropractic medicine. Of course I won’t be twisting your arm to read any further if you are tired of bad puns, on the other hand I hope I caught your attention and you will continue on, even if I seem to be a pain in the neck. Prior to writing this article I have never thought about the possibility there could be a use for mobile devices in chiropractic practices. However, there are apps available to chiropractic doctors that can be downloaded to help improve patient care. I will discuss some of these apps but it is important to remember that whenever mobile devices are used in a medical practice there is a chance of i-pad theft of tablet theft. Doctors and their staffs must be careful to ensure that when they do use mobile medical devices they take care of them and prevent sensitive information from getting into the hands of strangers. One way to do this is to use an Alpha Thunder Tag on a device.
An Alpha Thunder Tag is an anti-theft device that is attached to a mobile device with an adhesive and because of an anti-tamper alarm it cannot be removed without the proper tool. The tag works with an electronic article surveillance antenna, sending out a radio frequency signal that can be received by an antenna if a tagged device is carried too close to the antenna. In the event of an attempted i-pad theft or tablet theft the Alpha Thunder Tag would cause the antenna to activate its’ alarms. The alarms are a loud, audible beeping noise and a flashing LED light that alert staff a breach is about to take place. There is third protection built into the tags, a self-alarm that sounds in the device if a thief gets it out a door, past an EAS antenna. This alarm makes it easy to identify the person who has the i-pad or tablet in their possession, especially if several people are in the area.
Earlier I mentioned that I had not considered there could be apps for i-pads or tablets in chiropractic care. I was surprised to find there are actually quite a few. Starting off there is “Clipboard” that “streamlines patient registration and reduces the risk of data entry errors”, “Patient Check-In” which allows patients to check in for their appointment and “iEHR”. This last application allows doctors to “edit patient data, view clinical history, or create patient iEHR forms” (information is from macpractice.com). How convenient would it be to have all of this information readily available on a portable mobile device rather than sorting through a paper record chart? Another app I located that I found interesting is “CT Outcomes 6.5”. This app, part of a suite of applications from this developer, “…offers patients the ability to fill out their outcome assessments on a portable device…” (chirotouch.com). The “ChiroCloser” app uses 3D animations and a “white boarding” feature to assist doctors in explaining a patient diagnosis or procedure. Spin Tech Pro offers X-ray analysis software and generates reports for chiropractors (http://spinetech.us/app/spinetech-pro/ ).
With the availability of so much information on patients, their treatment, care, billing records, etc. it is easier to keep the records in electronic format and mobile devices for a care center are a great way to do it. It is important that the information on the devices not be compromised due to tablet theft or i-pad theft. Patient data breaches can be costly to a medical practice so it is important to secure i-pads and tablets, ensuring they don’t leave the building. Placing an Alpha Thunder Tag on each device and setting up EAS antennas at every entrance can prevent the theft of these items and keep patient information secure.
Get more information on Alpha Thunder Tags, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 today.
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Get A Better Sense For When Your Customers Are Shopping; Invest In A Door Counting Sensor
It’s the middle of the afternoon; you have lines of people at your checkout counters and two cashiers to check them out. Isn’t it wonderful to see this kind of business in your store? Someone on the sales floor needs help but you can’t assist them just now, it’s too busy. Get the checkout lines down a little bit and THEN you can see what the customer wanted assistance with. The thought crosses your mind that you don’t recall ever seeing it this busy when it isn’t a holiday. Is that really true or is it just your perception at the moment? I suppose it doesn’t matter the store is hopping and there have to be a gazillion people in here shopping. When things calm down a bit, did you notice the shopping cart filled with merchandise pushed to the side? Did you question why there is so much stray merchandise just plopped down all over the place? Just signs of what a busy day you have had, right? How many people were in your store for that rush? Does it matter? A door counting sensor would have been a great tool to answer that question, but you haven’t invested in one. A retail traffic counting system can give you data that can help you staff the store to better serve your customers.
A door counting sensor keeps track of the number of visitors entering your store. It can help establish the days your store is busiest and it breaks that information down to customer traffic by the hour. A retail traffic counting system provides a store owner or management team with information that can help in creating more effective schedules for a business. As historical data is gathered, you will be able to compare apples to apples in other words a Monday afternoon on a labor day may require more scheduled workers than a Monday afternoon in February. Making informed decisions about how many people you should staff your store with and at what times makes your business more efficient and profitable.
One of the old maxims in retail is, “Time enough to lean, time enough to clean.” I’ve heard this said in a number of different stores and the idea is that when it is slow and your associates have nothing else to do, they can find things to stay busy like dusting, wiping counters, sweeping etc. I would suggest to the business owner that if this is repeated frequently in your stores, it could indicate you have too many employees working at the wrong times. Using information collected from a door counting sensor, a business manager could validate peak shopping hour trends and staff the store according to those indicators. A regular Sunday afternoon peak rush from 3pm-6pm may mean that for those 3 hours, Sundays are scheduled heavier on cashiers so there are no lengthy lines. How does this impact the bottom line? Those shopping carts filled with merchandise that I mentioned in the beginning of the article would not exist. The patron frustrated by the long line that you were so pleased with, who abandoned that purchase due to the wait time would now complete the purchase. The extra cashier would have made the difference between losing that sale and profiting from it.
How about that stray merchandise stacked up around the check lanes that you considered signals that you were having a great sales day? Many of those items may well be individual purchases that people gave up on rather than stand in a line for a single item purchase. How do I know? I have been one of those customers. I do get irritated when I have to stand too long for one or two items because a store is not staffed correctly. I have put down merchandise and left rather than spend my money. I have also seen it happen as an employee and at that point even the best customer service can’t recover that sale. Additionally, I have walked away from a potential purchase when I had to wait too long for service at a display case. If I do it, and I can be a little forgiving with my background in retail, how much more does the average customer walk away because of a lack of service? A retail counting system can help you boost sales by giving you the information you need to optimize store coverage on the floor and at checkout.
Don’t play a guessing game at properly staffing your store. Invest in a retail traffic counting system so you know when your business is busiest. Opportunity knocks, count on it with a door counting sensor!
Get more information on Door Counting Sensors, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 today.
It’s the middle of the afternoon; you have lines of people at your checkout counters and two cashiers to check them out. Isn’t it wonderful to see this kind of business in your store? Someone on the sales floor needs help but you can’t assist them just now, it’s too busy. Get the checkout lines down a little bit and THEN you can see what the customer wanted assistance with. The thought crosses your mind that you don’t recall ever seeing it this busy when it isn’t a holiday. Is that really true or is it just your perception at the moment? I suppose it doesn’t matter the store is hopping and there have to be a gazillion people in here shopping. When things calm down a bit, did you notice the shopping cart filled with merchandise pushed to the side? Did you question why there is so much stray merchandise just plopped down all over the place? Just signs of what a busy day you have had, right? How many people were in your store for that rush? Does it matter? A door counting sensor would have been a great tool to answer that question, but you haven’t invested in one. A retail traffic counting system can give you data that can help you staff the store to better serve your customers.
A door counting sensor keeps track of the number of visitors entering your store. It can help establish the days your store is busiest and it breaks that information down to customer traffic by the hour. A retail traffic counting system provides a store owner or management team with information that can help in creating more effective schedules for a business. As historical data is gathered, you will be able to compare apples to apples in other words a Monday afternoon on a labor day may require more scheduled workers than a Monday afternoon in February. Making informed decisions about how many people you should staff your store with and at what times makes your business more efficient and profitable.
One of the old maxims in retail is, “Time enough to lean, time enough to clean.” I’ve heard this said in a number of different stores and the idea is that when it is slow and your associates have nothing else to do, they can find things to stay busy like dusting, wiping counters, sweeping etc. I would suggest to the business owner that if this is repeated frequently in your stores, it could indicate you have too many employees working at the wrong times. Using information collected from a door counting sensor, a business manager could validate peak shopping hour trends and staff the store according to those indicators. A regular Sunday afternoon peak rush from 3pm-6pm may mean that for those 3 hours, Sundays are scheduled heavier on cashiers so there are no lengthy lines. How does this impact the bottom line? Those shopping carts filled with merchandise that I mentioned in the beginning of the article would not exist. The patron frustrated by the long line that you were so pleased with, who abandoned that purchase due to the wait time would now complete the purchase. The extra cashier would have made the difference between losing that sale and profiting from it.
How about that stray merchandise stacked up around the check lanes that you considered signals that you were having a great sales day? Many of those items may well be individual purchases that people gave up on rather than stand in a line for a single item purchase. How do I know? I have been one of those customers. I do get irritated when I have to stand too long for one or two items because a store is not staffed correctly. I have put down merchandise and left rather than spend my money. I have also seen it happen as an employee and at that point even the best customer service can’t recover that sale. Additionally, I have walked away from a potential purchase when I had to wait too long for service at a display case. If I do it, and I can be a little forgiving with my background in retail, how much more does the average customer walk away because of a lack of service? A retail counting system can help you boost sales by giving you the information you need to optimize store coverage on the floor and at checkout.
Don’t play a guessing game at properly staffing your store. Invest in a retail traffic counting system so you know when your business is busiest. Opportunity knocks, count on it with a door counting sensor!
Get more information on Door Counting Sensors, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 today.
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Do You Really Have Inventory Control If You Hire The Wrong People? A Background Check Company Ensures You Stay In Control
Over the last few weeks I have been writing about different aspects of what Inventory Control means and strategies for impacting it. Recently it dawned on me that there is a human element to Inventory Control I had not previously considered. While paperwork errors, process and handling errors, and even technical glitches can all factor into control of inventory, the “people” factor has more influence than any other. Think about it like this, people make keying errors into computers, people make mistakes, people sometimes make poor decisions and sometimes people steal. If you aren’t hiring the right people for your workplace you could be creating your own inventory control problems. In order to hire the right people it is best to conduct pre-employment screening through a reputable company.
A good hiring interview with structured questions is important in getting a feel for an applicant’s ability to do the job you are trying to fill. The problem with an interview is that some people do a great job of interviewing, while not necessarily being honest in all their answers to your questions. I have conducted interviews with candidates and the answers they provided to my questions sounded good at the time but once they were hired and began work I was not so sure they had not embellished some of their responses. A background check company can verify information that a candidate puts on an application before they are hired. If you have a job that requires accurate data entry skills and the prospective employee indicates they have worked for a business doing this type of work, a background check company can verify that. If you need someone to work with finances and budgeting and you have an applicant indicate they received a finance degree from a university, you may not be able to establish it is true. A pre-employment screening can validate that information and let you know the information provided is correct. Places of residence, social security number verifications, criminal history and driving records are also pieces of information that can be gathered when employee background checks are conducted.
Potential dishonest employee activity can be a significant issue when addressing inventory control problems. If workers are stealing merchandise then it is apparent you are not in control, at least in that instance. A background check company can conduct a criminal background check on the candidate you are considering before you finalize a decision on whether to bring that person on the team. Your interview questions and application may ask whether someone has a felony conviction but if they lie and you aren’t doing employee background checks it is unlikely you will find out about their criminal history. This is not an admonition against hiring someone with a prior conviction, I actually encourage giving opportunities to people who are making an effort to turn their lives around. I do believe it is acceptable to put them in positions that will not put a company or their clients at risk for theft and let them prove they are worthy of an employer’s trust. On the other hand, if they aren’t being honest on an application about their past then regardless of the reason for lying they have demonstrated credibility issues before they are even hired. Pre-employment screening removes the risk of hiring the wrong person who may hurt inventory control in the long term.
Another inventory control concern is the freight receiving process and vendor credit and chargeback handling. In most cases these jobs require someone who is attentive to detailed work. They must be able to identify paperwork errors when an invoice doesn’t match the product received. A digit in the wrong place can be costly if not caught. Does billing match what was received? Are vendors giving all the credits due to the store when they take merchandise out of the store? All of this requires a person who doesn’t mind challenging an error when they find it and ensuring it gets fixed. If you seek a person with experience in this field and they have indicated on their application they worked for a company doing this job, pre-employment screening can come in handy. The background check company can verify past employment, guaranteeing you are hiring the person you think you are hiring.
Employee background checks do have an impact on the inventory control in your store. A company I used to work for used to teach us, “Right Person, Right Place, Right Time”. Make sure you are getting the right person ALL the time by using a background check company.
Get more information on a background check company, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 today
Over the last few weeks I have been writing about different aspects of what Inventory Control means and strategies for impacting it.Recently it dawned on me that there is a human element to Inventory Control I had not previously considered. While paperwork errors, process and handling errors, and even technical glitches can all factor into control of inventory, the “people” factor has more influence than any other. Think about it like this, people make keying errors into computers, people make mistakes, people sometimes make poor decisions and sometimes people steal. If you aren’t hiring the right people for your workplace you could be creating your own inventory control problems. In order to hire the right people it is best to conduct pre-employment screening through a reputable company.
A good hiring interview with structured questions is important in getting a feel for an applicant’s ability to do the job you are trying to fill. The problem with an interview is that some people do a great job of interviewing, while not necessarily being honest in all their answers to your questions. I have conducted interviews with candidates and the answers they provided to my questions sounded good at the time but once they were hired and began work I was not so sure they had not embellished some of their responses. A background check company can verify information that a candidate puts on an application before they are hired. If you have a job that requires accurate data entry skills and the prospective employee indicates they have worked for a business doing this type of work, a background check company can verify that. If you need someone to work with finances and budgeting and you have an applicant indicate they received a finance degree from a university, you may not be able to establish it is true. A pre-employment screening can validate that information and let you know the information provided is correct. Places of residence, social security number verifications, criminal history and driving records are also pieces of information that can be gathered when employee background checks are conducted.
Potential dishonest employee activity can be a significant issue when addressing inventory control problems. If workers are stealing merchandise then it is apparent you are not in control, at least in that instance. A background check company can conduct a criminal background check on the candidate you are considering before you finalize a decision on whether to bring that person on the team. Your interview questions and application may ask whether someone has a felony conviction but if they lie and you aren’t doing employee background checks it is unlikely you will find out about their criminal history. This is not an admonition against hiring someone with a prior conviction, I actually encourage giving opportunities to people who are making an effort to turn their lives around. I do believe it is acceptable to put them in positions that will not put a company or their clients at risk for theft and let them prove they are worthy of an employer’s trust. On the other hand, if they aren’t being honest on an application about their past then regardless of the reason for lying they have demonstrated credibility issues before they are even hired. Pre-employment screening removes the risk of hiring the wrong person who may hurt inventory control in the long term.
Another inventory control concern is the freight receiving process and vendor credit and chargeback handling. In most cases these jobs require someone who is attentive to detailed work. They must be able to identify paperwork errors when an invoice doesn’t match the product received. A digit in the wrong place can be costly if not caught. Does billing match what was received? Are vendors giving all the credits due to the store when they take merchandise out of the store? All of this requires a person who doesn’t mind challenging an error when they find it and ensuring it gets fixed. If you seek a person with experience in this field and they have indicated on their application they worked for a company doing this job, pre-employment screening can come in handy. The background check company can verify past employment, guaranteeing you are hiring the person you think you are hiring.
Employee background checks do have an impact on the inventory control in your store. A company I used to work for used to teach us, “Right Person, Right Place, Right Time”. Make sure you are getting the right person ALL the time by using a background check company.
Get more information on a background check company, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 today
