The Benefits Of Medical SMS Appointment Reminders by Jim Peterson

The use of SMS appointment reminders is extremely advantageous for the medical community. Especially for doctors with large practices who have to hire a number of medical receptionists to field calls from patients. These calls then have to be coordinated with the rest of the medical receptionist appointments and that is when confusion can set it, due to over or under booked appointments. But a problem that every medical receptionist has to deal with almost everyday is to call patients who fail to show up for appointments. In fact, when this happens, other patients, who might seriously need the doctor's attention, have to wait longer, get nervous and approach the receptionist's desk asking insistently how long they will have to wait to be seen by the doctor.

As you can imagine, these situations absorb a lot of time and that is why many centers have adopted innovative systems that help both medical receptionists and patients simplify the booking process, such as medical web forms, online schedulers, SMS appointment reminders and so on. For example, if you wish to book an appointment, all you have to do is open your medical practice website, find and fill the printable web form that you might even export to PDF and print out.

Furthermore, many practices do offer an SMS reminder service, an application which reminds patients of their upcoming medical appointments. Obviously, keeping patients' data safe is very important, and that is why these software applications need to comply with all HIPAA requirements. Such great service will surely help every practice that relies on appointment scheduling by reducing patients' no-show rates, which increase costs and cause useless stress. SMS appointment reminders, as well as call reminders, will surely minimize this frustrating phenomenon and will let your medical receptionist spend their time on other duties, helping your practice keep an ongoing business.

After all, the internet is now part of our daily life, and ignoring this fact would mean denying the truth. In fact e-commerce websites are growing at an unbelievable rate, as many entrepreneurs and companies have realized the great opportunities provided by the web. This means that it is just a matter of time before your practice will have to make use an online scheduler and give people the possibility to download a printable medical form to sign up with you and book their appointments.

You may not believe it, but SMS appointment and medication reminders will greatly benefit your patients as well. In fact, this innovative service lets the medical receptionist set a default message and send to those patients who need to take the medicines prescribed by the doctor.