To address modern scheduling needs, SuiteMed has designed a multi-functional and highly-developed, yet flexible and user friendly Scheduling Module in its IMS platform. Leaving your practice susceptible to scheduling errors can result in missed appointments, patients showing up when doctors are not scheduled, overbooking, and potentially costly patient care liability exposure.

SuiteMed's scheduling module includes an array of features that will keep your office running smoothly, increase practice productivity, provide scheduling accountability, and provide optimum patient satisfaction:

	Customizable scheduling parameters
	Quick and intelligent future appointment availability searching
	Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly views as well as multi-doctor, multi-room, and multi-office views: allows clinic-wide schedule snapshots and access
	User defined color-coded appointment tracking, including missed, cancelled, confirmed,and unconfirmed appointments: keeps staff members informed of all activities at a glance
	Create procedure-defined, proactive prompts for necessary data collection and quality assurance when creating new and existing patient appointments so critical data is never missed
	User defined setup of resources, procedures, and time slots
	Create hospital appointments and keep track of hospital billing
	Definable and easily viewable provider and room availability
	Double book, cut, copy, paste, and drag/drop appointments
	Appointment waiting list
	View all patient details with one click: access face sheet, chart history, insurance information, reminder notes, previous appointments, and outstanding bills
	Maintain patient demographics Arrow Export schedule to a Windows CE based handheld
	Interactive Voice Response (IVR) – a system that automatically calls patients to remind them of appointments and logs the result of each reminder attempt
	Authorization referral tracking based on procedure and/or insurance carrier, plan, or group
	Auto generate letters referencing the status of appointments, procedures, doctors and/or office
	Reserve time slots for specific procedures
	Integrated Healthcare Portal -- patient can securely view and schedule their own appointments with specific physicians in specific offices via internet
	Proactively assign instructions to front-office staff based on procedure and/or insurance carrier, plan, or group
	Define combination of procedures that involve multiple resources or tasks
	Schedule new patient without first requiring demographic data
	Option to schedule patients based on “cases” (e.g. regular visits vs. workers comp visits)