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Appointment Scheduling and Rescheduling: Benefits for Medical Professionals

Almost any type of medical practice can benefit from appointment scheduling and rescheduling services. Properly implemented appointment scheduling and rescheduling can result in improved patient communication and enhanced productivity.

Author: Outsource Strategies International
Date: Nov 18, 2011 - 2:36:53 AM

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Properly streamlined appointment scheduling and rescheduling services provides a wide range of benefits for medical professionals.  It helps healthcare professionals to effectively and efficiently manage their time-consuming medical appointment scheduling and rescheduling tasks.

Appointment details of patients are accurately recorded with the help of online appointment scheduling system. Using appointment scheduling service, you can set timely appointment reminders and verifications. Instances of overbooking and/or missed or late appointments can be avoided. The users are also allowed to modify the schedule in case of emergency.

Appointment Scheduling Service -- A Range of Benefits

• Reduces no-shows
• Reduced paperwork
• Easy appointment cancellation and rescheduling
• Easy scheduling of recurring appointments
• Easy to find the vacant scheduled time
• Helps to find out the availability of the doctor, medical assistants, nurses, and other resources of the medical office
• Enables group scheduling
• Easy to track insurance coverage
• Allows you to adjust appointments that overlap
• Enables booking of recurring visits
• Easily tracks cancellations
• Enables easy checking of appointment statuses like missed, confirmed, and checked-in
• Simplifies cross-scheduling, and the directing of patients to other offices
• Patient information can be quickly and easily updated
• Orderly callbacks
• Allows you to set appointment reminders (Phone and email appointment reminders)
• Provides multi specialty support with multiple-user accessibility
• Appointments can be viewed based on day, week or month; by treatment room; or by multiple providers
• New patients can make appointments easily
• Reduces scheduling mistakes
• Provides privacy in patient's appointment details

Appointment scheduling service and appointment rescheduling can be availed of on a 24 hour basis. You have the benefit of hassle-free modification of time as well as date for existing appointments. Daily, weekly or monthly schedules can be viewed for the purpose of rescheduling.

Improve Patient Satisfaction

Appointment scheduling service benefits your medical practice greatly in terms of increased productivity, better time management, improved patient satisfaction, and increased revenue. Even though there are so many ways of appointment scheduling such as paper-based and phone based appointment scheduling, Internet-based appointment scheduling is more efficient and reliable.

Today, there are several medical establishments which approach medical outsourcing companies to handle their medical appointment scheduling and appointment rescheduling services. By outsourcing, medical professionals can save considerable time and manage the scheduling and rescheduling process efficiently and in a timely manner.

Outsource Strategies International (OSI) offers medical billing services, focusing on every aspect of the medical billing / patient cycle. Our medical billing company is staffed with skilled and experienced billing specialists, coders, and other service personnel, having extensive experience in providing accurate results.

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