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Patient check-in Kiosks

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA

According to a McLean report published in InfoTech:

“Today’s patients demand the same level of self-service convenience in healthcare that they do in other industries. Medical kiosks save money, reduce wait times, and significantly enhance the patient experience. The payback period for medical kiosks is often as short as 180 days”

 Automated medical office access management [AM] or patient self check-in solutions provide a wide range of functionality including patient registration, insurance verification, and demographic-validation, electronically consent form completion, back-end scheduling, financial systems integration, real-time appointment re-scheduling, direction text mapping and way finding; and more.  Often, solutions can be individualized and integrated with HIT systems using HL7, XML, web and other standard data exchange protocols.

Open Access Patient Scheduling

A sub variant of the above is open-access patient self-scheduling, either in full or part. Benefits include reduced patient appointment wait times, matching and scheduling patients with physician, improved continuity of care, increased productivity per patient visits, higher physician compensation and higher net gains for medical offices and clinics.

Real Time Claim Adjudication

Real Time Claim Adjudication [RTCA] or expecting payment at the time of service is becoming the rule, not the exception, in the modern AM era. RTCA makes a medical practice more like other businesses.

Benefit of Automated Medical Office Access Management

• Streamlines patient flow with focus on improved patient care
• Real-time insurance verification
• Capture credit/debit card information with funds verification
• Improves office cash flow and collections
• Provides patient payment receipts
• Decrease accounts receivable [ARs]
• Save time and office staff resources
• Increases office return on investment [ROI]
• Demographic capture and validation improve marketing
• Continually improve office operations.

Vendors for the above AM processes include: Phreesia.com, KioHealth.com, MediSolve.Ca; VecnaMedical.com; MeridianKiosks.com; AppointmentDesk.com; and KioskMarketPlace.com; etc.

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More: Simple Steps to a Patient Registry: Ticket to Care Coordination, Quality Reporting and Pay for Performance

http://store.hin.com/Simple-Steps-to-a-Patient-Registry-Ticket-to-Care-Coordination-Quality-Reporting-and-Pay-for-Performance_p_0-3855.html#

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Filed under: Practice Management | Tagged: AppointmentDesk, Dr. David Marcinko, InfoTech, KioskMarketPlace, Medical Office Access Management Systems, MediSolve, phreesia, Real Time Claim Adjudication |