Every patient encounter benefits from a pre and/or post visit electronic interview.  Whether screening, assessing, tracking or gathering feedback, the information drawn from the patient is extremely valuable.  It is the primary reason practices use the Patient Tools system.

For example, consider the types of pre-visit (from home, in the waiting room or in the exam room) information that are gathered.  Histories, screening/assessment (health risk, psychosocial, disability, etc) and tracking (function, treatment, condition management, etc) information, automatically summarized and trended in a report for the provider before they see the patient, has tremendous advantages.

• The provider, or their staff, does not have to spend time gathering the information which is immediately available for decision support

• The range of information often covers areas the provider otherwise does not have the time to investigate

• From a medical legal/quality perspective, you know that complete and consistent information has been documented

This leads to higher quality, better diagnosis, reduced costs and better access.

Alternately, post-visit feedback information (satisfaction, quality, safety, etc) and tracking information (perceived outcome, etc) is useful for the provider and is particularly useful, aggregated for population, EBM and quality management.  Aggregate information is included when you use automation and have your patients do the work.

For specific clinic level solutions, select and go to the Patient Tools Tailored to Your Needs child site you are interested in learning more about or Contact Us to discuss your specific setting.