Has your appointment scheduling system moved to the 21st century
yet?
Has your appointment scheduling system moved to the 21st century
yet?
If you havent switched toonline scheduling, its about time!
1
Take a look at these numbers:
30% The rise in the proportion of patients booking online in
2014, continuing eight years of uninterrupted growth. Accenture
predicts that within four yearstwo-thirdsof all medical
appointments booked in the United States will be booked online.
986 million Number of medical appointments online patients will
make in the U.S. in 2019, accounting for 38% of all appointments
made that year.
$3.2 billion Amount in savings or added value for U.S. health
systems generated by online appointment scheduling by 2019.
A quick look at the benefits of online scheduling makes it clear
why everything is headed in that direction.
Better For Your Patients:A goodonline schedulerempowers your
patients (both old and new) to schedule their own appointments
online, 24/7.
Your patients are also used to a lifestyle of booking online
thats how they reserve their hotel rooms, flights, and movie
tickets. And they will love not having to wait on hold for your
busy office staff! And thats just for your patients.
Better For Your Practice:Online scheduling streamlines your
appointment scheduling process, not to mention the all important
bottom line that better efficiency translates into lower costs.
Thats something we can all appreciate.
Manual scheduling could put your practice in bad shape.Put
simply, manual scheduling is not good business practice, because
its a drain on your staff time and budget.Manual scheduling
requires setting up appointments over the phone, recording them in
an appointment book or electronic calendar, making reminder phone
calls, recording cancellations, resetting cancelled appointments,
and all the while, scrambling to fill those workday gaps. All of
this takes up the time of your office staff. Now combine todays
patient preferences with the limited hours of your office staff,
and youll see why anonline appointment schedulerbeats the manual
version every time.
Ease your workload. Boost your savings. Engage your patients and
make them happier by giving them the convenience of scheduling
their own appointments.
Here are 9 reasons that make online scheduling software, such
asPatient Communicators Online Scheduler, just what the doctor
ordered:
1. INCREASE EFFICIENCY Why pay staff to manually schedule and
confirm appointments, when you can invest in a solution that will
do the work for you?
2. MORE CONVENIENT FOR YOUR PATIENTS Enable them to schedule
their own appointments (and even wait-list themselves for preferred
dates) online anytime, anywhere.
3. STAY IN CONTROL You determine all the parameters of the
appointments that can be scheduled online.
4. BLOCK CHRONIC CANCELLERS Patients who are habitual no-shows
will not be able to use the online scheduler, thanks to its Black
List feature.
5. STAY CONNECTED With appointments listed online (not just in
your office), you can easily access this information wherever
theres an Internet connection. Review upcoming appointments
remotely!
6. KEEP PATIENT DATA SAFE AND SECURE Strong encryption and
anti-hacking features stores customer information securely online
better than if it were in an appointment book at your front
desk.
7. ENJOY FLEXIBILITY Easily make schedule modifications, such as
closing off certain hours or providers, or taking certain days of
the week off of the scheduler.
8. STREAMLINE OPERATIONS Freeing up staff from manual scheduling
means they can provide better service when your patients arrive,
and lend their attention to other critical tasks.
9. REDUCE NO-SHOWS Automated SMS and email reminders advise
patients of a pending appointment. This gives them the chance to
confirm or reschedule, and gives your staff a heads up regarding
any last-minute rescheduling.
Sounds great? Find out what our Online Scheduler can do for your
practice totally risk-free!Contact usfor your 30-day FREE
TRIAL.Patient Communicator provides a state-of-the-art solution
designed for medical and dental practitioners. A win-win system for
both your patients and your practice, its sophisticated features
include Automated Confirmations & Reminders, 2-Way Texting, an
Online Scheduler, Reviews & Surveys, and Marketing Tools.
180829.42eng -
