5 ways physical therapists can benefit from a patient appointment scheduler

Are you new to electronic patient appointment scheduling? Keep reading to learn more about each of the unique benefits this capability can offer a physical therapy clinic’s staff. These benefits come directly from patient appointment schedulers. You will also learn what exactly a patient appointment scheduler is.

What is a patient appointment scheduler?

This is software that can be used by a physical therapy practice’s administrative staff. It can significantly maximize the practice’s administrative efficiency. During a typical workweek, many physical therapy clinics may schedule hundreds of appointments. Correct appointment information and time management are essential for a smoothly running clinic. Sure, your administrative staff may be very capable of handling these types of scheduling things. But imagine how much more they could handle if their productivity was increased. Electronic scheduling systems are a great way to boost staff productivity.

5 ways physical therapists can benefit from using a patient appointment scheduler

• Prevents no-shows — One of the benefits that come with integrating a patient appointment scheduling system is that it can prevent no-shows. A scheduler can send out automated appointment confirmations and reminders for each patient. These may be sent out several days and even hours before patients are due in for their appointment at your clinic.

• Quickly fills empty appointment slots — Another benefit of using a patient appointment scheduler is that it can help your administrative staff. With it, they can quickly fill empty appointment slots. These scheduling systems can easily send out automated emails. These emails go to patients who have been placed on your clinic’s appointment waitlist. In the event that one of your patients cancels or they fail to show up to their appointment, you can fill that vacancy with someone from a waitlist. This is one of the ways that a scheduling system can help improve your practice’s efficiency and productivity.

• Boosts your staff’s productivity — Using a patient appointment scheduler can help improve your staff’s overall productivity. Your administrative staff can have more time to focus on other front-desk tasks, including greeting patients. It may even boost your staff’s workplace satisfaction. A part of their workload can be made easier with the help of an electronic patient appointment scheduling system.

• Improves clinician focus — If your practice isn’t as efficient as it could be or is understaffed, your clinicians may be performing more than one job role each day. Implementing a patient appointment scheduling system into your practice allows clinicians to single their focus down to their specialty, that is, giving patients quality treatment and care.

• Improves patients’ service experience — Your patients will likely experience improved quality of care and service when you make the choice to implement an electronic patient appointment scheduling system into your clinic. They’re less likely to experience mistakes made by scheduling staff. They’ll receive reminders before their appointments. They will be able to greet and converse with the administrative staff, and their clinicians will be more focused on providing quality care.

AgileEMR can help your physical therapy practice reap the benefits of a patient appointment scheduler

AgileEMR is a physical therapy-specific electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management solution. During the design of our AgileEMR system, we consulted with physical therapists and physiotherapy experts to ensure that it meets the specific needs of physical therapy practices.

Among the many needs that AgileEMR can help your practice meet is the need for a fully integrated patient appointment scheduler. Our solution allows your team to seamlessly:

• Create initial appointments for patients.
• Send patients information they need to know before their appointment.
• View clinician notes regarding each appointment.
• See clinician notes about changes to appointment cadences and more.

In addition, you’ll have the peace of mind that comes with using a tested system that has been used to schedule and manage more than 1 million patients’ cases since 2013. You will also be able to ensure you have a PT-specific EMR system that is working to drive the future of PT. 

Discover more about how your practice can benefit from using AgileEMR

Ready to learn more about the benefits that using AgileEMR can have for your practice? Our team is ready and willing to assist you. We can meet with the key members of your practice and walk through a demonstration of our AgileEMR system’s features, capabilities and benefits. Our experts are also thrilled to help you get additional information about how our solution can streamline the operations of your practice.

Contact our team today for more information or to schedule a demo to see how AgileEMR can help your practice.