Healthcare & MedTech// topic
Front desk, intake and patient access
In short
Everything that happens before the patient is seen: registration and history capture, eligibility and coverage checks, slot allocation by visit type and provider, and the call and message volume that eats a receptionist's day.
8 pages
diagnostics
- Double-booked by the booking agent: where the slot lock went missingTwo channels writing into one slot is not a scheduling bug. It is a missing reservation step between offering a time and committing it, and it is reproducible on demand.diagnostic10 min
- Eligibility returns 'patient not found' for a clearly covered patientNot found is a statement about matching, not about coverage. Re-run the lookup with fewer identifiers, find which field broke the match, and stop retyping the member number.diagnostic10 min
- Referrals come in by fax, email and portal, and none of them get bookedReferrals do not get lost because staff are careless. They get lost because a referral has no state, and something with no state has no age and no owner.diagnostic10 min
- Reminders are sending and no-shows are flat: finding the step that failsA reminder can only fix forgetting. Join send logs to attendance, test 4 gates in order, and the flat number usually turns out to be a problem no wording change reaches.diagnostic11 min
definitions
- Recall, waitlist and hold: three different queues everyone calls one thingRecall fires on a clinical due date, waitlist fires on a cancellation, hold waits for the patient. Merge them and every automated message is wrong for two of the three.definition6 min
- The provider schedule template: slots, blocks, holds and release rulesA template is 4 objects and the rules connecting them. A booking system that cannot read all 4 looks either too eager or too restrictive, and both cost real capacity.definition6 min
- Visit type: the one field that decides duration, room, provider and prepVisit type is not a label on a calendar entry. It is the key every scheduling rule joins to, and where it is unmodelled no booking automation has anything to reason with.definition6 min
- What an eligibility response tells the front desk, and what it does notAn active-coverage answer is a statement about membership, not about the visit you are booking. That gap is where most surprise patient balances are created.definition6 min
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