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Investigating Patient Use and Experience of Online Appointment Booking in Primary Care: Mixed Methods Study

Investigating Patient Use and Experience of Online Appointment Booking in Primary Care: Mixed Methods Study

Descriptive analyses and logistic regression were used to investigate the percentage of patients who reported awareness of their general practice offering online appointment booking and recent use of online appointment booking. These analyses were restricted to patients reporting trying to make an appointment at their general practice in the last 12 months. This is important because patients may not have used online appointment booking (or been aware of the option) due to not needing an appointment.

Helen Atherton, Abi Eccles, Leon Poltawski, Jeremy Dale, John Campbell, Gary Abel

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e51931

An Electronic Health Record–Based Automated Self-Rescheduling Tool to Improve Patient Access: Retrospective Cohort Study

An Electronic Health Record–Based Automated Self-Rescheduling Tool to Improve Patient Access: Retrospective Cohort Study

More recently, health care systems have used a range of tools to improve appointment completion rates and the process of scheduling patients into unfilled slots. Electronic health record (EHR)–based scheduling tools, phone call reminders, and automated SMS text message appointment reminders can all help ensure patients select an appointment time that works with their schedule, have the option to reschedule, and are prompted to confirm their appointment.

Smitha Ganeshan, Andrew W Liu, Anne Kroeger, Prerna Anand, Richard Seefeldt, Alexis Regner, Diana Vaughn, Anobel Y Odisho, Michelle Mourad

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e52071

Evaluation of a Text Message–Based COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Program Among Older Patients: Cross-sectional Study

Evaluation of a Text Message–Based COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Program Among Older Patients: Cross-sectional Study

Thus, only 17% of total calls resulted in a scheduled appointment. Given the relatively slow pace and resource-intensiveness of this approach, a transition was made to an automated text messaging and follow-up strategy, in which patients were sent a text message informing them that they were eligible to receive the vaccine and asking if they were interested in scheduling an appointment.

Naheed Ahmed, Christian Boxley, Ram Dixit, Seth Krevat, Allan Fong, Raj M Ratwani, Deliya B Wesley

JMIR Form Res 2022;6(7):e33260

Barriers to and Facilitators of Automated Patient Self-scheduling for Health Care Organizations: Scoping Review

Barriers to and Facilitators of Automated Patient Self-scheduling for Health Care Organizations: Scoping Review

Appointment management in the outpatient setting is important for health care organizations, as waits and delays lead to poor outcomes. The Institute of Medicine has 6 aims for health care organizations to improve quality [1]. Despite the goal of timely access to care, the topic of visit timeliness is one of the least evaluated and understood aspects of care delivery, and there is little assessment of what drives care timeliness and the potential approaches for improving this dimension of care [2].

Elizabeth W Woodcock

J Med Internet Res 2022;24(1):e28323