While you're welcome to keep and use your free account, I'd like to share a few reasons that you'll want to upgrade to a paid account, both for yourself, your business, and your patients.

Storyline is a serious piece of infrastructure with clinicians and researchers relying on us to provide rock-solid reliable service for mission critical telehealth needs. Providing these services while improving and maintaining Storyline costs money, and we want to continue providing the kind of reliable service that our customers depend on.

1. Storyline is so much more than just telemedicine. 

Storyline vs. Telemedicine 

While telemedicine has some benefits to patients –namely the fact that they don't have to travel and they can access care from home – there is little benefit on the side of productivity for providers. Providers are simply trading in 15 minutes in a treatment room for 15 minutes in a video consultation room.

With storyline you can automate care pathways and only interact with patients face-to-face or via Telehealth call when it is necessary. The result is high touch care that is delivered more frequently resulting in deeper patient relationships, improve compliance, and better outcomes.

2. Storyline removes complexity, systems, and manual work.

Manual care and interactions vs. Storyline's care pathways.

Storyline removes a number of systems and tools that you're currently using and combines them into one platform. You no longer need separate tool for email, sending text messages, downloading reports, sending surveys and questionnaires, educating patients, marketing to new patients, or any of the Myriad of systems that you might be using to interact with patients.

Additionally, with storyline you can build in tire Precision Care Pathways or personal care programs for any use case.

• You can build an arm boarding program that educates patients about the services you offer.
• You can build a marketing program that provides value in some way to new patients, or potentially new patients.
• You can build and automate treatment plans post-operative care plans Wellness plans and anything else that you can think of which removes much of the manual burden of delivering these plans.

Now, you're moving from the realm of entirely manual care delivery into a hybrid model where much of the redundant and tedious work is done by technology, freeing you up to be more productive and spend more time working at the top of your license.

3. Storyline removes the variability that is killing you. 

One of the problems that manual care delivery introduces is the problem of variability.

Whenever you have high variability it means that some patients are being over-treated and many other patients are being under treated or falling entirely through the cracks.

Delivering care manually means that you cannot deliver the same quality of care for every patient. Storyline changes that by automating care Pathways so that every patient receives a personal, high-touch experience that makes them feel cared for, listened to, and partners in their own care.

Best of all, you can simply improve the care pathway rather than trying to engage in time sucking work to educate people on how to deliver still more manual care.

4. Storyline improves patient outcomes

By making patients Partners in their own care they assume much more responsibility. They become more compliant, more engaged, and they feel a sense of inclusion.

All of these create an ecosystem that improves their care and outcomes.

5. You're able to generate a strong recurring revenue business model.

By creating Precision Care Pathways and personal programs you can generate entirely new products the patients can access and pay for without increasing provider burden or staff time.

For example; you can create a wellness program that patients want access to and join just like any other course or treatments for reminder or app – except that you are the one providing that care.

You can set any price that you want, and you have access to coupons and refunds and programs and all the things that you will need.

There's so much more that you can do.

I hope that we touched on a few areas that might be of interest, and that you'll consider upgrading to a paid account.