Your practice is your livelihood, but how quickly you see patients can be a critical factor in its success or failure. Similar to other businesses, in a private medical practice you could be faced with a feast-or-famine situation, and rather than trying to market your practice to new patients, you need to focus on creating the most holistic and productive environment possible for your patients and staff members. In other words, you need to streamline all of your practice’s activities,…
How do you know your practice is suffering from poor time management skills?
Practice time management isn’t only about making your life easier throughout the workday. It’s about improving the experience of your staff, yourself, and your patients, and it starts with the digitization of care for patient intake forms and patient registration forms and understanding why you need it. Moreover, better practice time management directly impacts the quality of care and timeliness of your services. Let’s look at how patient benefit from better practice time management now.
Although health care has made it onto the political scene in recent years, the majority of Americans remain dissatisfied with how health care functions in the US. According to the New York Times, long approval times are a driving force in dissatisfaction in US health care. To help keep your practice out of this problem, you need to know a few things about how electronic patient registration and use of electronic patient forms can reduce these wait times.
In the health care environment, protecting personal health information (PHI) is crucial. Although the integration of electronic health records can help with PHI collection, obtaining and recording patient information can still be cumbersome and time-consuming. As a result, there are a number of issues that usually occur.