That's an even better idea. I had the same feelings of not putting more work on my front office person as she is already checking in the new patients (i.e. scanning in drivers license, insurance cards, verifying all demographics, collecting co-pays, obtaining their weight, and rooming them). F/U patients she just grabs the already printed superbill and rooms the patient. I know it doesn't take much time to open a chart and forward it to me but it is another step to slow down clinic. Plus, like Jon says, she may forget and then the patient may never get a note.
Hey, that was my suggestion. J/K. Who cares, lol. I still maintain though, Travis, that if she is checking the demographics (from within AC), then why not save them and send the chart to you. I would say the number of patients she should forget in one year should be...ummm...zero. And, even if she did, it would be obvious when you went to find the chart, and then you send it to yourself. Do you have a list of the next day's patients? If so, ask her to send all of them to you the night before.
All of these work-arounds could be fixed with a better scheduler in my opinion
The scheduler is an afterthought in EVERY billing or EMR program, whether it is Medisoft, Lytec, Medware, etc. I think they put 50 programmers and one year on the billing software and then 5 programmers and one weekend on the scheduler.
v5 has all of this health maintenance crap that I will NEVER use.
Couldn't agree with you more. I despise the health maintenance. I wish there were two different programs.
