/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20110321_NDSSI_TB-378x82.gif

Subscriptions

Advertising

Resources

About Us

Contact Us

Create An Account Forgot Your Password?
Trouble logging in or creating an account? click here
Home This Month E-Weekly Newsletter Building a Facility Article Archive Second Opinions
Search:
Benchmarking
General Surgery
Accrediting/Quality
Anesthesia
Code/Bill/Reimburse
Building/Renovating
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120426_PDI_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120126_APIC_LB-154x100.jpg
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120430_ISI_LB-154x100.jpg
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120322_Soma_LB-154x100.gif
Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Malpractice Verdicts Often Favor Physicians

Physicians come out on the winning end of 80% of malpractice claims that end in jury verdicts, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hos...

Study: CT Colongraphy Effective in Finding Polyps

A CT-scan-based, laxative-free "virtual colonoscopy" may be as effective as standard colonoscopy in finding potentially cancerous polyps, according ...

Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgery must be prevented at all costs. The 3 steps of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol make ...

Archive > February, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 2

Business Advisor

Welcome to the Age of Online Pre-Op Screens

Brooke Smith

Instead of your nurses spending an average of 20 to 30 minutes per patient collecting data during pre-op phone interviews, now patients can do the work themselves from the comfort of their keyboards. A growing number of online patient registration services (see product roundup on page 21) let your patients log onto a secure website on their own time, days in advance of their scheduled procedures, to fill out their personal information, medical history and other relevant data. No more playing phone tag, no more paying overtime and additional staff to complete calls and, perhaps most significantly, no more postponing cases because of some last-minute revelation.

Sign in to continue reading.
Email Address:
Password:
Categories: Not yet reviewed
Keywords:
ASC; Ability; Add; Admit; Admit Management Simple Admit's; Admit's; Assent; Assent PatientPad; Center; Compiled; Digital Assent; Digital Assent PatientPad; EMR; Founded; HIPAA; Health Lets; Health Patient Portal; Integration Systems Lets; Intuit; Intuit Health Lets; Irene Tsikitas On; Kent Steinriede Choosing; Level Medical; Level Medical Integration Systems Lets; Make Patients Register Online Once; Make Patients Register Online”; Management Simple Admit's; Medical; Medical Integration Systems Lets; Medical Passport; Medical Web Technologies; Medical Web Technologies Guides; Medicare-require... show all keywords
ASC; Ability; Add; Admit; Admit Management Simple Admit's; Admit's; Assent; Assent PatientPad; Center; Compiled; Digital Assent; Digital Assent PatientPad; EMR; Founded; HIPAA; Health Lets; Health Patient Portal; Integration Systems Lets; Intuit; Intuit Health Lets; Irene Tsikitas On; Kent Steinriede Choosing; Level Medical; Level Medical Integration Systems Lets; Make Patients Register Online Once; Make Patients Register Online”; Management Simple Admit's; Medical; Medical Integration Systems Lets; Medical Passport; Medical Web Technologies; Medical Web Technologies Guides; Medicare-required; Nurses; Online Once; Online Patient Registration Systems Intuit Health Patient Portal; Online”; Passport; Patient Portal; Patient Registration Systems Intuit Health Patient Portal; PatientPad; Patients; Patients Register Online Once; Patients Register Online”; Portal; PreOpScreening.com; Pricing; Product; Reduced; Register Online Once; Register Online”; Registration Systems Intuit Health Patient Portal; Roundup: Online Patient Registration Systems Intuit Health Patient Portal; Set-up; Simple Admit; Simple Admit Management Simple Admit's; SourcePlus Passport; Specialty Surgery Center; Steinriede Choosing; Surgery Center; Systems Intuit Health Patient Portal; Systems Lets; Technologies; Technologies Guides; Tsikitas On; Web Technologies; Web Technologies Guides; access; accurate; adapt; add-on; addition; additional; address; administrator; advance; ahead; ample; anesthesia; anesthesiologists; answer; appointments; archive; arrival; asked; assessment; automated; automates; automatically; average; backlog; bad; based; basic; basis; began; begin; bills; bright; brochures; business; buy; call; calls; cancellations; cancelling; card; cases; catching; center; center's; check-in; collecting; comfort; commented; company; complete; compliance; comprehensive; conducted; configuration; confirm; convenience; costs; couldn't; create; creation; current; customers; customization; customize; cuts; data; days; depending; designed; detailed; directly; documentation; e-mailed; early,”; ease; easily; easy; educate; education; electronic; electronically; eligible; encouraging; enter; expect; explain; extremely; facilities; facility; facility's; features; fill; finding; flat-fee; form; forwarded; found; fully; give; giving; growing; health; healthcare; held; helped; helps; higher; histories; history; home; hook; hospital; hour; immediately; implementation; implemented; implementing; improves; in-house; includes; including; industry.”; information; initial; input; instructions; insurance; integrate; interface; introduce; invasive; isn't; issues; it's; key; language; last-minute; legible; letting; linked; log; longer; lot; lowers; luncheon; made; make; management; markets; match; meaningful; medical; medication; meet; minimum; minutes; module; mold; month; monthly; night; number; nurse; nursing; offered; offering; offices; on-site; one-time; online; operations; order; overstaff; overtime; overview; ownership; page; paid; paperwork; participation; password; past; patient; patient's; patients; pay; paying; pays; period; personal; peruse; phone; playing; policies; populated; portal; postponing; practice; pre-admission; pre-op; pre-operative; pre-register; pre-registration; pre-surgical; prescription; presenting; preventing; pricing; print; privacy; process; produces; product; program; provide; provider; purchased; pushed; quality; questions; quickly; rate; reach; receipt; receive; reconciliation; recorded; records; reducing; register; registration; regulatory; release; relevant; relieve; remained; reminder; reminds; reports; request; required; requirements; responsibilities; review; rights; role; roundup; safely; safest; sample; satisfaction; saved; scheduled; schedulers; screening; secure; send; service; services; set; set-up; shopping; sign-offs; significant; simplicity; simply; sit; site; site's; software; solution; spending; spent; staff; staffing; standard; stay; strategic; streamlined; streamlines; submitted; submitting; support; surgical; surveys; system; system's; targeted; team; tend; testing; tests; things; time; touchscreen; tracked; tracking; training; translation; trial; typical; typically; us,”; user-friendliness; user-friendly; varies; vendor; verbal; views; voice; waiting; waived; walks; web-based; website; weeks; work; written; yielding; you'll; —; “Communicate; “It; “Tips; “strives

© Copyright Herrin Publishing Partners LP. REPRODUCTION OF THIS COPYRIGHTED CONTENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. We encourage LINKING to this content; view our linking policy here.

PRODUCT & SERVICE RESOURCES
Did You See This?
A showcase of products and services geared to make your facility better.

Architects' Showcase
Is a beautiful, efficient new facility in your future?
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120323_ORX_AR-300x250.jpg
Other Articles That May Interest You
High-Def, Low Stress
Tips on making your transition to high-definition video systems a smooth and successful one.
Readers to the Rescue
Should Anesthesia Help Transport Patients?
Editor's Page
Who Invented the Time-Out Towel?