In nearly every clinic, patients wait. They wait because the clinic has no system to track wait times from check-in to check out. They wait in the exam rooms as care team members look for each other to pass along critical information. And they wait as the doctor deals with a complicated patient that takes up the time of two or three scheduled visits. The result is frustrated and burned-out staff and disengaged, dissatisfied patients.
eSynchrony eliminates the wait. eSynchrony is a proven patient tracking system implemented by multiple health care systems. It mirrors the clinic processes, exam rooms, testing flow, and patient steps to give the care team a real-time picture of who is in the clinic, how long they've been waiting, and what they need next. No more guessing who has been in the lobby for how long or behind the exam room door or wasting time asking each other.
On the eSynchrony board, the care team instantly communicates the patient status by moving patient tiles, eliminating the need to look for flags, Post-it Notes, staff, and/or knocking on the exam room doors. eSynchrony provides consistent, accurate data on wait times, provider-patient interaction times, and room usage. This real-time data empowers providers, staff, and administrators to make informed decisions, from identifying the next patient to optimizing clinic operations based on historical trends.
Rooming delays can start immediately after the patients check-in. As the clinic gets busier and more patients have to be managed, patient tracking gets difficult. Who's ready to be seen? Who's back from testing? Which patient should be seen next? How long has each patient been waiting? Where is the staff? Where is the provider? Flags, dots, lighting systems, and text messages do not provide a unified view or a communication method that BOTH the providers and the staff can use to seamlessly communicate with each other. eSynchrony does.
Broken communication systems lead to stressed out staff members who must deal with angry, waiting patients. Providers apologize to the patients for long wait times and manage the clinic flow to the best of their ability; however, clinics end late or strain working relationships. The team needs data to answer questions like: How many patients should be scheduled and in what order? How many exam rooms are ideal? What resources would be ideal? Where are the bottlenecks? Where should the improvement efforts be focused? eSynchrony provides the necessary data.
"Our patient satisfaction has gone up dramatically. We are now consistently getting 9s and 10s on our patient exit surveys on a 10-point scale. eSynchrony helps us take better care of our patients and reduce their wait times." A Clinic Coordinator
"The best feature about the eSynchrony board is that at one glance, I know whether my clinic is running on time, which patients are waiting for me and where my staff members are. One glance gives me a snapshot of my entire clinic in live time." Yasmin Bradfield, MD.
"The eSynchrony board forces us all to think about what the other people are doing and how it is affecting the whole patient experience. Before, we only focused on finishing our own responsibilities. Now, we can see everything that is going on in the clinic, and we are better able to communicate and work together as a team to improve clinic flow, reduce delays, and improve the patients' overall experience." A Staff Member
"We used to struggle to see my volume of patients in a half-day, but now I can comfortably see 3 more people in that same half-day, and our patient satisfaction has gone up." Kimberly Stepien, MD.
"Using the real-time data that is collected allows us to use the metrics to analyze where the bottlenecks are and determine how to prevent them, eliminate waste in the system for our patients and improve the patient's overall experience." Terri L. Young, MD, MBA.
"We are quickly able to assess and re-allocate space due to unpredictability of appointment durations, missed appointments, and late arrivals that make it challenging to manage flow. We use the data to optimize the space for both our current and new providers." A Senior Executive, Ambulatory Services.
Patient visit lengths reduced by 22.5 % within 3 months, achieved by visualizing hand-offs, accelerating communication, and making informed decisions.
Increased patient access by 17.5% in a half-day clinic session by improving the scheduling templates, based on data. Enhanced ability to manage complex and add-on patients.
Clinics end 30-60 minutes earlier, leading to a better work-life balance for the providers and the staff.
Data insights revealed underutilized exam rooms in an outpatient clinic, allowing the space to be repurposed for a new specialty clinic.
PROVIDERS AND STAFF COMMUNICATE USING A COLORFUL / INTUITIVE INTERFACE - FAST, FLUID, EASY!
UTILIZE CUSTOMIZED LABELS, SHORTCUTS, AND COMMENTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER, WITHOUT WAITING.
FRONTLINES OFTEN GUIDE US WITH FRESH IDEAS FOR ENHANCING ESYNCHRONY.
eSynchrony tracks each patient’s progress through the clinic and communicates patient type, status, and requirements in real time to every member of the team. As it tracks patient flow, eSynchrony collects reliable, accurate data about wait times, provider time, and room utilization—data care providers and administrators alike need to make informed decisions about clinic operations.
The columns on the eSynchrony board are the steps in the care process; the rows are the exam rooms or other spaces. The patient schedule for the clinic day is imported from the EMR to create the patient tiles. Each tile can be color-coded to indicate patient type, can have an alarm added to indicate late arrival or excessive waiting time, and can contain abbreviations and labels added by the care team. Each provider moves the patient tile into the appropriate process step as service is provided, triggering the next step in the process. Behind the scenes, eSynchrony records the amount of time the patient spends in each column to generate reports on wait times, provider face time, room utilization, clinic end times, and visit length.
eSynchrony is cloud-based, so requires no complicated software installation. The FlowOne team creates a profile for each physician’s clinic and installs the touch-screen board; the rest of the set up takes place within the cloud-based software.
eSynchrony can upload the clinic schedule from the existing EMR to automatically create patient tiles.
eSynchrony is HIPPA-compliant and requires no PHI information. The data is encrypted and not stored on any local devices. Additionally, the clinic team controls what information appears on the patient tiles by using first names, color coding, and abbreviations.
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