Referral Loop Tracker.
An app idea for veterinary clinics.
Tracks each referral a clinic sends out and whether the owner actually booked, so closed loops are visible instead of assumed.
What the search found
- Who pays
- Small veterinary practice owners
- The problem
- A vet sends a case to a specialist and never learns if the owner went. The clinic only finds out when the owner calls back weeks later, or never.
- The gap
- rVetLink is built for the specialty and emergency side to talk to referring vets, and the advice in the roundups is that a PIMS referral module is enough when volume is low. Nothing in the results is a cheap standalone loop-closer for the small primary clinic that just wants to know if the owner booked.
- Already out there
- IDEXX rVetLink idexx.com
Referral management between specialty or emergency practices and referring vets. Sits on the specialist side and is part of the IDEXX stack.
- Vet software referral roundup ustechautomations.com
Says the native PIMS module is usually enough when referral volume is low, so a second tool is hard to justify.
- IDEXX rVetLink idexx.com
- People asking for it
- Please call the referral hospital before you send reddit.com
Vets discuss the friction of coordinating with the referral hospital before sending a case.
- Personal vet refusing care after specialist reddit.com
Owner describes the gap in care between primary vet and specialist after a referral.
- Please call the referral hospital before you send reddit.com
- The big assumption
- Small clinics care enough about closed referral loops to pay for a separate tool rather than shrug and keep using the PIMS module.
- Test it this week
- Ask ten small practice owners how they currently find out whether a referred owner booked, and whether they have ever lost a case that way.
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