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Do you like your Scheduler ?
What do you like about it ?
Any innovative features that make patient management easier ?
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Does anyone else like their scheduler ?
I like this $60 multi-doctor network scheduler -- 14 day trial period -- see screen shot
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Anything specific you like about it ?
Besides that it looks pretty.
Firebird back end, nice !
I installed this and I found it visually appealing but fairly standard.
Some things I really liked, the Date Picker was well done, I liked it's ability to resize. In general the resizing worked very well.
I did not evaluate it's network performance. I couldn't get the Sync to Outlook to work, but I didnt try very hard. This would be a good feature.
Some things I found to be missing:
(1) The schedule should show the reason the patient is coming ! All good medical schedulers have this. Most business ones do not.
(2) Almost no patient demographics. (Being able to Sync Demographics from the EMR to the Scheduler is a must). I found it especially odd there was no First and Last name even ! And no DOB !
Overall - Priced right, but too rudimentary for most offices.
It's no surprise the Mechanic's Scheduler is about the same !
I like the simplicity and its priced right!
I do not use it for practice management that houses all the demographics. I use it to simply make a quick appointment. I have it color coded for type of visit. I like how the MA's can leave notes. There is another tab to click on that gives you the list of patients for the day and visit reasons.
I do like Google Calendar, but doesn't work for multiple providers. I use Athena for PMS, but way too much info is needed to schedule an appointment and not as visually appealing as this simple one.
FPdoctor: I do not use it for practice management that houses all the demographics. I use it to simply make a quick appointment. I have it color coded for type of visit. I like how the MA's can leave notes. I use Athena for PMS, but way too much info is needed to schedule an appointment and not as visually appealing as this simple one.
I do not use it for practice management that houses all the demographics. I use it to simply make a quick appointment. I have it color coded for type of visit. I like how the MA's can leave notes. I use Athena for PMS, but way too much info is needed to schedule an appointment and not as visually appealing as this simple one.
Why the double entry ?
Is the Athena scheduler that bad ?
Is it not networked ? is the Networked to pricey ?
Does your staff enter everything in Athena and then the names in Medical Calendar ?
There is another tab to click on that gives you the list of patients for the day and visit reasons.
I saw that, but all views should have the reason !
I do like Google Calendar, but doesn't work for multiple providers.
Google Calendar isn't well suited for a medical office either.
The only double entry I do is the patients name and phone number. Just a few seconds to type their name and phone number to get on my schedule.
II don't like Athena's scheduler. A new patient calls to make an appointment and you have to keep them on the phone when they are in a hurry, getting all their demographics and insurance info in, even before you can put them on the Athena schedule. Athena's scheduler looks very boring compared to the exciting happy colors of this scheduler!
With this calendar, I just need their name and phone number and their on my schedule. I'll get their demographics inputed into Athena PMS later, at a more effecient time.
I agree most schedulers are terrible, it is a problem of programmers / doctors not having worked in a front office for any period of time. Many reflect just the collection or generation of data for what they consider important in the rest of the program.
The one here is high school level both on design and GUI. Some of the schedulers for denists' offices are really good. Medscribbler is on the "in graduate school" level for function and undergrad for design.
Watch for a "Medscribbler" Phd candidate one very soon.
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Has anyone looked at Clearhealth - their scheduler is great and web based with double click features like a desktop application.
See a demo at http://demo.clear-health.com and let me know your thoughts.
Their next version makes this even better
FPDoc,
What about batch scheduling? You have an MVA with 2 people in the car. No wait, pretend you live in Southern California and the MVA is a Latin family of 10. Now you want to schedule them each 3 x 4 weeks for PT. Can your calendar batch schedule each patient in seconds? Can the program find an empty spot at a given day and time and if there is conflict how does it deal with the conflict. (double book, pick a time, pick next closest time, etc) Will it print the patients appointment schedule with a single click with an introductory note about your practice and palliative measures to be used at home?
Chris Wilkerson, D.C. Carson Doctors Group TabletPCs in Medicine Editor-in-Chief www.MedicalTabletPC.com Home: www.Digital-Doc.com
Jack Kelly: Has anyone looked at Clearhealth - their scheduler is great and web based with double click features like a desktop application.
It looked shockingly Plain Jane. I want advanced features with lightning fast booking.
I crashed the demo trying to select a patient
http://demo.clear-health.com
Isn't that always the way !
Here's what I get when I try the demo:
string(849) "SELECT widget_form_id, f.form_id, form_data_id , MAX(CASE WHEN Skin.value_key = 'Skin' THEN Skin.value END) as 'Skin', MAX(CASE WHEN Vision.value_key = 'Vision' THEN Vision.value END) as 'Vision', MAX(CASE WHEN Mouth.value_key = 'Mouth' THEN Mouth.value END) as 'Mouth' FROM widget_form AS wf INNER JOIN form AS f USING(form_id) INNER JOIN form_data AS fd using (form_id) LEFT JOIN storage_int ON storage_int.foreign_key = fd.form_data_id LEFT JOIN storage_string ON storage_string.foreign_key = fd.form_data_id LEFT JOIN storage_text ON storage_text.foreign_key = fd.form_data_id LEFT JOIN storage_date ON storage_date.foreign_key = fd.form_data_id WHERE fd.external_id = '141438' and f.form_id = '104060' GROUP BY fd.form_data_id, storage_date.array_index, storage_string.array_index, storage_string.array_index, storage_text.array_index "
Digital-Doc, the $60 simplistic calendar does not do all that batch scheduling.
I like it!
Our new Scheduler is designed for very busy office with at least 30 providers. It is very functional, and we are working out final Beta to be soon included. I will post screenshots when I have time.
It is not a much pretty as it is functional. It was designed with the Front Office Staff of a site that does over 500 visits per day. Multi Specialty Multi Site with Diagnostics, Internal Medication Dispense and all the bells and whistles a large clinic has.
We have this and a PMS coming out real soon, within a quarter. Trying not to lose that easy use interface of eMedRec in the process.
I like the GUI in the one above, but major issues with a Scheduler is multiple resource conflicts recognized accross multiple groups. For example a GI Doctor may also have his Endoscopy Center and his Hospital Rounds all in the computer, it must be smart enough to know cross billing Practices if the same allocated resource is busy. Can't do a scope and initial consult and be at the hospital at the same time, unless you are superman.
Brendon: We have this and a PMS coming out real soon, within a quarter.
We have this and a PMS coming out real soon, within a quarter.
Will you be doing billing as well?
Graham http://www.synapse-ehr.com/ Synapse - the EMR for the superior physician