Re: Office system for medical assistant notification

From: Douglas Krell (dkrell@msn.com)
Thu Aug 28 22:30:06 2003


Gary move the medical assistants desk so that the charts are visible. Or...better yet, just make the medical assistant get off her...chair, and get up to check the charts and bring patients back to the room. OR...

How about a wireless doorbell chime from home depot. The bell is at her desk and the button is at the front. She'll probably get tired of the bell and rip it out after awhile.

Doug

>----- Original Message -----
From: Garry E. Siegel, M.D. To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 8:29 PM Subject: GEN: Office system for medical assistant notification

My practice (3 docs, 2.5 CNMs) is moving into new space next week, and now the patient charts that are ready to be picked up by the medical assistant and brought back to be seen are not easily visible to the staff. This means that the medical assistant who might be at her desk on the phone has to get up a lot to check, or get called on the intercom (doesn't work if she's on the phone, I don't think).

Our staff wants us to install a system with small panels of different colored lights, that are in the halls, exam rooms, etc., so the front desk turns on a light, and it blinks everywhere. These are costly, but look slick.

I'm thinking about using a restaurant pager system, where each medical assistant has a beeper, and the front keys up their beeper from a small control box. I have no idea how much it would cost, but I bet a lot less than the cool lights.

Does anyone have any experience/thoughts?

Please post and/or email privately.

Garry

-- Garry E. Siegel, M.D. Private Practice Roswell, GA





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