Improve Patient No-Show Rates and Reduce Missed Appointments
HIPAA-compliant, customizable automated appointment reminders save valuable staff time by assisting with appointment confirmations.
Cost of Missed Appointments
Patient no-show rates can range anywhere from 5-30% or more. Estimates indicate that no-shows cost the U.S. healthcare industry $150+ billion a year and individual physicians an average of $200 per unused appointment. Hospitals and medical practices still incur expenses related to each missed appointment. Nurses, doctors, technologists, and equipment that were scheduled to work with a no-show patient not only lose valuable time, but when a patient misses their appointment, their continuity of care is interrupted and it can have a negative impact on their health.
1Call’s Appointment Reminders provide a HIPAA-compliant, customizable solution for healthcare organizations, so you can help your patients remember their appointments. Appointment reminders save time and money, increases staff productivity, and reduces the incidence of missed appointments.
Contact us to learn how to reduce patient no-shows with simple, automated appointment reminders.
"We actually dropped no shows from 9% to 1%…and we dropped the wait list from 9 months to 3 months using 1Call medical appointment reminders. The second word got out about the impact we had made with appointment reminders, we had people lined up down the block. Everyone wanted the same thing."
Betty Bouchie
FORMER Senior Systems Analyst for Nova Scotia Health Authority
Automated Appointment Reminders
1Call’s automated appointment reminders streamlines the process of notifying patients about upcoming appointments and can improve your organization’s appointment no-show rate. Patients can easily reschedule appointments when responding to the appointment reminder. Because the HIPAA-compliant reminders can be sent days in advanced at predetermined times, and repeated if necessary, there is time to move patients from a wait list and into the open appointment time.
Enhanced Appointment Confirmation
Before initiating a reminder, the system can verify if the recipient is on a “Do Not Call” list, if multiple appointments are scheduled for the same day, and if an appointment is for an adult or child.
When a patient receives an appointment reminder and needs to reschedule, they can respond to the message and connect to the scheduling desk.