Access Evolution - Simplify Physician Referrals and Pre-Admissions Processes
When a physician’s office refers a patient to your hospital, they typically fax physician’s notes, test results and other key documents, and ask the patient to bring other documentation with them when they check in. Staff members spend hours manually processing incoming faxes, and patients can feel burdened by the responsibility of taking paperwork to your facility. Physicians' offices can omit certain documents, or send incomplete information, as can patients. Once paperwork reaches your offices it can be misfiled or associated with the wrong patient record.
Access’s Physician Referrals solution, powered by Access Evolution, is helping hospitals like yours overcome these challenges. Now, physicians and their administrative staff can complete referral forms online, and attach all necessary documentation. These are then submitted electronically. Documents can be interfaced directly into patient records via the enterprise content/document management (ECM/EDM) system, and data can be made shared with your health information system (HIS).
Using Access’s Physician Referrals solution makes each encounter easier for patients, hospital staff and physician office employees.
With Access’s Physician Referrals solution, your facility can:
- Ensure the scheduling department and/or outpatient clinic has current, complete and
- accurate patient information before the patient checks in
- Eliminate document loss
- Speed the availability of incoming patients’ information to jumpstart care delivery and the
- revenue cycle
- Improve communication between your hospital and referring physicians
- Eradicate paperwork-related delays
- Improve the patient experience by removing the burden of patients bringing paperwork to the hospital, and ensuring staff members are prepared for each encounter