Appointment Scheduler - FAQs

The Appointment Scheduler is your personal secretary, which takes charge of your appointment tracking, fixing and blocking. Doctors can get a total view of their workday and efficiently manage their working schedule.

» Can the scheduler be customized for a practice’s working hours and days?

Yes, the OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler allows full customized settings for a practice’s working hours and days. It allows you to set the time zone, working hours, lunch timing, default appointment interval, default provider, default location, weekly days off, default display format, and practice holidays.

» Can I book and cancel an appointment using a Pocket PC/PDA?

Yes, the OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler is also available in a pocket PC/PDA version. Using a Pocket PC or PDA, providers and practice staff can schedule, view, track and cancel appointments for multiple locations in the practice. These appointments can be synchronized with the OmniMD^™ central database server and are updated immediately.

» Does the system schedule appointments?

Yes, OmniMD^™ has an Appointment Scheduler for quick and easy appointment scheduling. You can schedule your appointment right from where you are via your PDA or Internet. Prior alerts at specified durations make sure that you are prepared in advance and do not miss on vital appointments. Icons automatically get updated before and after an appointment giving accurate appointment status.

» Does the appointment scheduler support large practices?

The OmniMD^™ Online Appointment Scheduler supports patient appointment scheduling, tracking and patient-reminding for both small and large practices. Providers and practice staff can schedule, view, and track appointments for multiple locations and multiple providers in a practice, using a single screen. OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler uses an industry standard RDBMS from Microsoft - MS SQL server. This system is highly scalable and can be used by hundreds, even thousands of online users without performance issues.

» Are the PDA-based appointments synchronized with the centralized appointments database?

Yes, the OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler pocket PC/PDA version synchronizes with the central database server and is updated immediately for viewing over the internet (ASP) version of the OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler.

» Does this appointment scheduler provide alerts and reminders for the appointments?

Yes, the OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler provides appointment alerts and reminders for upcoming patient appointments.

» Does OmniMD^™ track confirmations, no-shows and recurring appointments?

Yes, the OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler tracks confirmations, no-shows and recurring appointments: the program has an integrated automatic patient reminder system. The OmniMD^™ patient reminder service is an automated voice system that automatically calls and plays a message to remind the patient about upcoming appointments and then captures the patient’s response. The OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler software system allows you to add recurring appointments based on daily, weekly, monthly and yearly repetitions.

» Can OmniMD^™ export appointment data to an Excel file for reporting?

Yes, OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler software can export patient appointment data to an Excel file for further reporting and analysis. The OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler allows searching appointments for multiple locations and providers, and with a single click it exports the appointment data to the correct fields in Microsoft Excel.

» What kinds of reports are produced using the OmniMD^™ Appointment scheduler?

The OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler helps you create appointments reports using Excel. You can easily export the appointment data to Excel for further reporting and analysis.

» Does the scheduler link the appointment to the medical documentation in the OmniMD^™ EMR system?

Yes, OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler links appointments to the medical documentation in the OmniMD^™ Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. It presents a single-screen view of the patient dashboard, visit summary, demographics, insurance records, new prescription, new Superbill, new referral, transcriptions, scanned documents, form records, co-pay collection and visit closure.

» What kinds of search options are available for searching any appointment?

The OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler helps you to search and view appointments using any of these criteria: Provider, Location (s), Name of Patient, Appointment Type, Appointment Status, Procedure (s), Reason, Date Range, Next Week and Next Month.

» How can I search the free appointment slot?

The OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler allows you to search for free appointment slots. You can search for a free slot of 5 minutes to 60 minutes, using the following options: anytime, pre-post lunch, around a particular time and/or on a particular weekday and/or after a particular date.

» Can one set up common procedures and default times required for procedures?

Yes, the OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler Software allows users to setup common procedures and the default time required for a procedure. In the OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler module (in “Clinic Settings”) users can set up procedures and durations and attach users/providers to them.

» Can a user navigate through all patient details using the appointments module?

Yes, the OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler allows users to navigate through all patient details using the appointments module. With OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler software you can directly see the patient dashboard, visit summary, demographics, insurance records, new prescriptions, new Superbill, new referrals, transcriptions, scanned documents, form records, co-pay collections, and perform visit closure.

» How does the OmniMD^™ Appointment scheduler act as an entry point in the EMR workflow?

The OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler acts as an entry point to the entire Electronic Medical Record (EMR) workflow because the patient enters the practice workflow from this module, and all records are generated and attached to the patient chart.

» Can the provider or office staff take a printout of appointments?

Yes, the provider or office staff can take a printout of the appointment record using the print icon placed on top of the “Appointments” window.

» Does it provide monthly appointment snapshot views?

Yes, OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler provides a monthly snapshot view of the appointments with various legends for daily utilization with color coding.

» Can the appointment scheduler book recurring appointments?

Yes, the OmniMD^™ Appointment Scheduler allows you to add recurring patient appointments based on daily, weekly, monthly and yearly repetitions.