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How Upgrading Your Veterinary Software Can Help with Staff Retention

Written by Samantha Walker, RVT
Cloud based veterinary software

In veterinary clinics that have been overwhelmed with new patients, keeping your staff members has become a bigger priority.

The good news? Veterinary software is here to help.

Veterinary software is headed into a new future with better design, features, and user-friendliness. While it may seem like a significant change upfront, upgrading your software can reduce staff burnout and keep your business running smoothly. 

Improving Staff Retention 

Veterinary team morale can be negatively affected by out-of-date software combined with busy clinics.

Providing adequate training, offering competitive wages, and creating supportive work environments can help you keep your highly qualified staff members. This starts with an up-to-date office and software system.  

In today's era, you can no longer get away with pen and paper, especially in the medical field. Keeping track of patients, billing, and documentation can overwhelm your staff.  

Even old software systems can seem more of a hindrance than a help. It can slow down time spent with animals and create high costs for IT and tech support.  

What makes the best veterinary software?

  • Efficient 

  • Easy-to-use 

  • Reliable with online customer support 

  • Automated training 

  • Cloud-based 

You want something simple, cost-friendly, and efficient. The last thing you need to be added to your busy workload is figuring out technology. 

Improved Veterinary Management 

Veterinary software is an easy way your veterinary practice can move into the modern era and keep staff members happy. You want your staff to spend more time helping animals and their caregivers and less time worrying about slow and inefficient veterinary software programs.  

Keeping an up-to-date practice might entail some big changes, but it can improve productivity and efficiency. Improved veterinary practice management software can help reduce errors and simplifies your practice. 

How can you get started changing veterinary software? Book a chat with an IDEXX software expert to learn how our cloud software can help your practice.