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Same-day scheduling, also known as “advanced access” or “open access” scheduling, allows medical practices to dramatically decrease patients’ waiting times for appointments. Very simply, it requires that practices do today’s work today by offering a same-day appointment to all patients who call. The result is more timely care, increased patient satisfaction and improved practice efficiency.
While the concept has great potential and has garnered much interest, it is often misunderstood. The key mistake practices make is thinking of same-day scheduling as a ready-made product or a specific solution guaranteed to reduce a practice’s waiting time. In reality, there is no such product or solution; however, there is a proven process and a set of proven principles, which if applied in a customized fashion to each environment, will result in improved access to care. The course of action is similar to any quality-improvement process and involves four steps:
The principles to apply throughout this process are fairly simple:
Same-day scheduling, then, is really all about the process and the principles, not about a specific product or solution. It will require some thought, customization and experimentation to apply these principles to your specific environment. If you’re ready to embark on that, read on. What follows are commonly asked questions about open-access scheduling submitted by FPM’s readers.
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What type of scheduling is when patients are given a specific appointment time for the first half of the hour leaving the second half of the hour open for walk in patients?
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