Yosi Health Asks the Right Questions to Support Patient Self-Scheduling

Yosi Health offers a full suite of virtual patient intake services that lets patients fill out forms and complete their intake before they come in for clinical visits, online self-scheduling of appointments, two-way text communication, billing, patient surveys, telehealth and more. In a recent video interview with CEO Hari Prasad, he describes how they have overcome the traditional barriers to patient self-scheduling and other insights into their unique approach to the patient intake process.

Pre-visit intake can get complicated because each health care provider is unique and has layers of requirements. For instance, pediatricians might have more than 300 workflows for intake, because it varies by age and other factors. So Yosi Health works with each care center to replicate its business and workflow needs.

Similarly, clinicians have traditionally balked at patient self-scheduling because the patient doesn’t know what types of appointments are offered and how to choose the right one. Staff are usually required to ask the right questions. Furthermore, physician schedules are constantly changing, and not all services are available at all times.

Prasad says that Yosi Health has solved the self-scheduling problem, offering an “airline check-in experience,” by integrating in real time with EHRs and other systems. They also analyze the questions asked by staff to recreate them in the self-scheduling software.

Watch the video for more details about Yosi Health’s implementation of a “true digital front door,” their text messaging system, how they improve the patient experience while reducing staff burnout, and future plans.

Learn more about Yosi Health: https://yosi.health/

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Andy Oram

Andy is a writer and editor in the computer field. His editorial projects have ranged from a legal guide covering intellectual property to a graphic novel about teenage hackers. A correspondent for Healthcare IT Today, Andy also writes often on policy issues related to the Internet and on trends affecting technical innovation and its effects on society. Print publications where his work has appeared include The Economist, Communications of the ACM, Copyright World, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vanguardia Dossier, and Internet Law and Business. Conferences where he has presented talks include O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, FISL (Brazil), FOSDEM (Brussels), DebConf, and LibrePlanet. Andy participates in the Association for Computing Machinery's policy organization, named USTPC, and is on the editorial board of the Linux Professional Institute.

   

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