{"id":19271,"date":"2014-02-25T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esiiblog.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=19271"},"modified":"2023-06-12T17:33:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:33:52","slug":"better-manage-the-patient-journey","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/esiiblog.com\/en\/blog\/better-manage-the-patient-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Manage The Patient Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"ps-block ps-block--intro\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__container\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__grid\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__content\">\n <p>More and more hospitals are interested in the patient flow management and in the improvement of their reception quality. Optimizing the patient journey has become a major issue. Hospitals receive people under stress and must continually face many challenges: Reduce wait times, better manage costs, simplify management and improve patient satisfaction. In recent years, hospitals have modernized their equipment. But what are the possible factors for optimizing the patient journey? How to implement them?<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"ps-block ps-block--heading\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__container\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__grid\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__content\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__body\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__item\">\n \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Be with the patients throughout their journey<\/h2>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"ps-block ps-block--paragraph\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__container\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__grid\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__content\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__body\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__item\">\n \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An important point to improve flow management is to provide an efficient journey for each patient and to be with them since the beginning to the end of their visit.&nbsp;It starts with appointments making and more and more hospitals offer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esii.com\/en\/solutions\/online-appointment-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">do it online<\/a>.&nbsp;In addition, to limit non-kept appointments, the patients may receive a text message and \/ or an e-mail as a reminder in which they can easily confirm or cancel the appointment.&nbsp;This prevents blocking expensive resources and allows better planning.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"ps-block ps-block--embed\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__container\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__grid\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__content\">\n \n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BGaBF9WN_54\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"Le parcours patient \u00e0 l&#039;Institut de Cancer de Montpellier par ESII\" title=\"Play video &quot;Le parcours patient \u00e0 l&#039;Institut de Cancer de Montpellier par ESII&quot;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/BGaBF9WN_54<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BGaBF9WN_54\" title=\"Le parcours patient \u00e0 l&#039;Institut de Cancer de Montpellier par ESII\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le parcours patient \u00e0 l&#039;Institut de Cancer de Montpellier par ESII (https:\/\/youtu.be\/BGaBF9WN_54)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">English subtitles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"ps-block ps-block--heading\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__container\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__grid\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__content\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__body\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__item\">\n \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A simplified reception<\/h2>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"ps-block ps-block--paragraph\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__container\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__grid\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__content\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__body\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__item\">\n \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is important to perfectly identify the patients\u2019 need on their arrival and to inform the staff about it.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esii.com\/en\/solutions\/interactive-kiosk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interactive kiosks<\/a> can be installed to effectively organize the&nbsp;journey.&nbsp;At the hospital entrance, the patients insert a card in the kiosk, scan the bar code on their appointment letter or directly identify themselves on the screen of the interactive kiosk with the code they received.&nbsp;They get a unique ticket and the patients are automatically identified and directed to the right service.&nbsp;This solution is already installed at the&nbsp;Maternity Port Royal of&nbsp;the Cochin Hospital (APHP, Paris).<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"ps-block ps-block--paragraph\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__container\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__grid\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__content\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__body\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__item\">\n \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esii.com\/en\/your-needs\/queue-management-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Software <\/a>and hardware solutions are more and more tested and approved by health care facilities to manage efficiently the patient journey. The benefits of these solutions are large:<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"ps-block ps-block--list\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__container\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__grid\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__content\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__body\">\n <div class=\"ps-block__item\"><ul>\n <li>\n<li>Complete management of the patient journey (appointment scheduling, admissions, consultations, invoicing)<\/li>\n<\/li>\n <li>\n<li>Better direction to the services<\/li>\n<\/li>\n <li>\n<li>Confidential reception of the customers and accompanying persons<\/li>\n<\/li>\n <li>\n<li>Optimized management of appointments<\/li>\n<\/li>\n <li>\n<li>Improved patient flows<\/li>\n<\/li>\n <\/ul><\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be with the patients throughout their journey An important point to improve flow management is to provide an efficient journey for each patient and to be with them since the beginning to the end of their visit.&nbsp;It starts with appointments making and more and more hospitals offer to do it online.&nbsp;In addition, to limit non-kept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18277,"template":"","activity":[116,22],"client":[],"class_list":["post-19271","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esiiblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/19271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esiiblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esiiblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esiiblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esiiblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esiiblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=19271"},{"taxonomy":"client","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esiiblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/client?post=19271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}