This site supports everything from optometrists and chiropractors to kidney specialists and podiatrists. The site does not support dental practices, however, which I found to make little sense.

It took me about 10 minutes to sign up for an account and link to my doctor. Your patients can then set up appointments by visiting your website and clicking the link to Relay Health or logging directly into Relay Health and clicking on ‘Appointments’ from their home screen.

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You will be able to send messages to the patients that are associated with your practice through Relay Health. The last message I received from my doctor was reminding me that I needed to get my flu shot.

Other features include:

- Patients can upload their health records

- Physicians can upload lab/test results

- Patients can contact their doctors

- Patients can manage all of their family members from one interface

- Patients can manage prescription refills

Making an appointment takes about 2 minutes once you have created your profile in Relay Health. The appointment maker asks you to give three dates and times when you will be available.

While I will be the first one to tell you that you must concentrate on increasing traffic through the SEO and SEM for your physician or dental practice, it is what you do with that traffic in the end that matters. Give your existing and prospective patients the ability to interact with your practice via the internet.

Please let me know if you have questions by leaving a comment or by contacting me directly here.