Hallie Bulkin argues that private-practice clinicians should track measurable outcomes (e.g., time-to-progress, carryover, success metrics) and use those data for marketing and to demonstrate patient impact. She predicts 2026 will be “the year of data” in private practice and frames outcome-tracking as a pathway toward a more evidence-driven, medically recognized profession.
All right. Number three, measurable outcomes matter. So 2026 will be the year of data in private practice. Right. I believe clinics should be tracking, like, time to progress carryover success metrics and using that to market their impacts. Because I think so many of you that I have coached, I've mentored are not realizing the positive impact that you have on your patients and how much quicker when you are properly trained, your patients often will move through therapy. And so that is something that needs to be highlighted. Right. And this shift will help to elevate the entire field, honestly, because we want to drive everybody to be a little bit more evidence driven, you know, and we want to be a more medically recognized profession. We talk about these things. So I do think that this could be one way that we got there.
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