Appointment Reminders Help Medical Clinics Save Money by Jim Peterson

Whatever medical practice you're into, whether you are a medical doctor, a dentist, a chiropractor or an optometrist, then you probably know that when a patient doesn't show up for an appointment schedule, it would mean money down the drain. In fact, in the past financial year, a hospital in New Zealand reported that one in 10 patients missed outpatient appointments thereby costing the health system about half a million dollars in wasted staff time.

You wouldn't want that to happen to you, right? Therefore it's only appropriate that you set up a website for your medical clinic complete with an appointment scheduler. Through the appointment scheduler, your patients can set up an appointment without having to go to your medical clinic. They can just access your clinic's website, log in to the system and schedule their visit to your clinic.

Of course, the big question is what if the patient forgets that he scheduled an appointment with you online? Well to avoid missed appointments, rescheduled meetings and other problems your medical clinic should take advantage of, it would be wise for you to have a medical appointment reminder built in to the system you're using.

If you already have appointment scheduler software, integrating a medical appointment reminder to it will reap you lots of benefits. The medical appointment reminder software which will be seamlessly integrated into your appointment scheduler will not only automate the reminding process, save considerable amounts of your receptionist's time, but will also make the life of the whole medical clinic easier.

You can have the medical appointment reminder set up in such a way that patients can have the option of canceling or modifying the appointment either by e-mail or phone and the appointment scheduler will automatically update the appointment schedules with the respective adjustments. It also benefits your patients in such a way that they would no longer have to go to your medical clinic to ask if you're available so they can reschedule an appointment. Instead, the system runs to check your schedule all by itself and will notify the patient whenever all of your available slots for a specific day are already filled.

If you're determined to cut down on patient no-show costs, have your appointment scheduler integrated with a medical appointment reminder. You will not only make things easier for you receptionist, but you will also be saving your medical clinic a lot of money which you can instead use for further improvements.