subject: Any Doctor That Uses An Automatic Medical Front Desk Receptionist Should Also Have His/her Own Websi [print this page] Nowadays many people argue that the virtual world is becoming more real than the real world. While we don't want to take a side in this argument , we cannot deny that the Internet is becoming more important with each day and most likely its significance will only raise in the time to come. At the beginning we used the internet to exchange scientific information to help our research and today we can work, meet new people and shop for anything over the Internet. You just try to Google any words and the search engine returns many thousands of results! That's because there are entire companies that completely rely on the Internet and its potential and a lot of companies which wouldn't exist at all, if it the global network called Internet did not exist.
But let's stay on-topic. If you are a doctor, no matter whether you run a large medical practice or a small one, you might need some extra help with those time consuming secretarial tasks, especially if you do not have a medical office receptionist.
You have probably already heard of the automatic medical office assistant offered by AssistMedic. It is a medical software system that has been specifically designed to take over most administrative tasks from you and your human medical front desk secretary. It supports many functions but the most important ones are :
* Importing and exporting medical data
* Online appointment scheduling
* Automatic back-up of the patients' medical records at regular intervals.
* Accepting patients' sign ups over the web
* Sending appointment reminders (by SMS, email and phone)
Please note that most functions of the backup medical front desk receptionist require an internet access since it is integrated with the website of the medical office.
From the above explanation it should be obvious that if you just have an backup medical front desk secretary but don't have a website then the automated receptionist will not be as efficient as it would be when integrated with your website. It doesn't matter if you have a big website with hundreds of web pages or just a really simple one with just 3 pages or so. In fact you can have just a main home page, a page for the patients to book appointments and a "Contact Us" page. What is important is whether your medical practice is visible on the net.
Now, because we know that running a medical office is as hard as managing any other businesses, we suggest you follow our advice because it is wisdom learned the hard way by many other medical practitioners.
Have a nice website built, one that describes the features of your medical clinic, the services that you offer and, once your website is available online, you might think of using a secondary medical office receptionist and promoting its many useful features (online appointment scheduler, electronic medical records, medical appointment reminders, etc.) to your existing and new patients.
Once the backup medical front desk secretary is installed in your medical practice and your website is connected to the receptionist, any of your patients will be able to start using the full range of services, including submission of custom medical forms and online appointment scheduling. For the scheduling of appointments the doctor can specify that it will be done either through a full-fledged online scheduler with a calendar or alternatively through a simple appointment request form.
