Benefits of Patient Scheduling

Patients must be provided with an excellent level of service from the moment they make an appointment. In today’s tough healthcare environment, availing of patient scheduling services from a reliable outsourcing service provider would be an ideal option for medical facilities. These services will help you become more efficient and productive; you can also easily provide an improved level of service to your patients.

Patient appointment scheduling system helps you boost revenue and improve patient satisfaction by efficiently and systematically managing the flow of patients in your healthcare practice. With this appointment scheduling system, you can arrange appointments, print schedules and forms, view calendars, customize your scheduler, and enforce scheduling rules. Moreover, patient scheduling helps you maximize the most valuable resource – the physician's time.

Patient scheduling services help you to:

• Track and analyze all patient schedule information
• Organize all aspects of doctor’s schedules
• Minimize missed appointments and vacant time slots
• Set phone or web-based appointment reminders
• Make possible double and triple booking
• 24/7 access, enabling you to reach out to a greater number of patients
• Even out workflow
• Customize screen settings
• Set user defined appointment
• Easily sort existing patients using initial/last name, date of birth, and/or patient ID
• Automate workflow
• Organize callbacks
• Cancel and reschedule appointments easily
• Track no-shows and cancellations
• Even out workflow
• Follow authorized visits, referring doctors, resources, sales, and insurance coverage
• Easily update patient information
• Simplify appointment rescheduling and cross-scheduling
• Book recurring visits
• Identify and reduce the impact of overtime and cancellations
• Automatically remind, confirm, and reschedule your patients according to your practice scheduling rules

Streamlined medical patient scheduling enhances your office efficiency, improving patient satisfaction. You get more time to focus on providing personalized service for your patients. You can maintain your existing patients and at the same time get new patients. With increased number of patients, your medical practice will undoubtedly flourish with improved productivity and profit.

For patients, the benefits that can be gained from these efficient services include:

• Appointment scheduling flexibility
• Personalized care from physicians
• Cost-effectiveness
• Immediate results
• Saves time

Scheduling can be done for any medical procedure including visits, tests and treatment. With online patient scheduling, changes can be updated in real time and the up-to-date schedule is put out to the entire hospital instantaneously. This helps to avoid scheduling conflicts and double-booking of physician, rooms, staff and equipment.