Home Forums Discussions General Discussion Phreesia a free patient check-in

By chance I know about this company who offers check-in PDA for patients. We were interested at first but decided not to use it
but I would like to let the A/C user board know about it.

Basically it is free for the medical office because it can charge the advertisements from drug company.

Go to Phreesia.com

Regards,

CYL

That looks like an interesting device. It bears some similarity to the Instant Medical History concept.

I use the device - they are more than happy to customize the questions as you ask them to - I have put in a basic questionnaire about insurance and contact info, followed by cc, medical/surgical/social history. The computer was set to print a hardcopy which I reviewed and then was scanned. Now it auto saves to the receptionist's desktop in a file and they import it into the chart - I can review then at pt. check in or later. They can also do it so it only does demographics and chief complaint. It is a little slow at first, but we checked in about 80 of our pt. last week and the information is useful.

Can you input your own intake forms, like demographics (it sounds like yes on that one), privacy, payment policies, so one and so forth, release of PHI to get records forwarded.

It seems that like Office Ally if enough folks liked this and we bugged Jon enough, perhaps we could get some sort of an interface with this thing. Much better than paying for it, as long as we can always keep control over the advertising as they claim on their website.

With things like this and the TV's in the waiting rooms, are they paying folks like us at all for letting these things in? Especially the TV's? Are we allowed to take money for things like this, or might kickback and Stark like laws start to creap in here??? I certainly wouldn't do it just for a free flatscreen TV that someone else controls the content on that's for sure...

You can customize what demographics they collect - they will customize aspects of it. It does not generate a form per se - the demographics are typed and very legible - they then basically do a basic PAST medical, surgical, social and family history as well as whatever else you want.

Jon say they are working on an interface, but I have no desire to pay for an interface - I actually prefer the information to be where we can look at it and use it. I wouldn't want the pt input to go directly in the billing info directly since if they put in the wrong group number it would not work right.

I don't think getting paid is a reasonable option - they provide free equipment and software and we get the benefit of a legible pt intake form. I think any technology that keeps your office on the "cutting edge" or makes our lives easier is worth looking at.

Yeah, I know it just that we never seem to be allowed to profit from any business arrangments we get into, espeically from all the hard work you docs do, no less us support staff. And I wasn't just talking about them. I was also curious about those "TV" deals as well.

Are they able to work with an exsisting wireless network? I'm pretty happy with ours right now and wouldn't want to mess it up too bad nor do I want anyone knowing my WPA codes and the like. I'm also quite fond of our present router, the best we have ever had so far. Just show me where the settings are and I'll take it from there...

I agree with you on the demographics with things like any numbers, SS#'s, even DOB's and the like. If it imported to a place where we could review and correct what they have entered that might be ok. But hey with FAP I can quickly scan in whatever it generates now... We can always hand enter the data ourselves.

Any Idea when Jon may have an iterface up and running??? Would they pay for our interface fees with him too like the labs seem to be doing for theirs? That would sure make it nicer and easier to get folks to sign on. Thanks for the info....

We might try this out. Heck, its FREE.

I have a wireless network, but they sent a different one - I added it into our system so they have their own access point and are not in our "network" - worked easy and they will come out and install although I convinced them to let me do it (took all of 10 minutes).

I don't know about the interface -takes front desk 1 minute to import.

So, is anyone using Phreesia? How is it?

It works okay - still working out a few kinks. I think it is pretty neat - still refining the interview.

I use it too, works great. They do use the actual "Instant Medical History" software which AC already works with. However, we have no way to get Phreesia's data into AC's interface. SO currently I have the forms saved as PDF, which we then print or import.

They did send me a wireless router but I sent it back. The tablets hooked right up to my existing wi-fi network and I did not want the hassle of another access point.

They also have a nice website you can log into and change your intake settings (sensitivities of different topics).

I have been using this for about 3 weeks love it, we do the same thing we import the pdf file into amazing charts.