A common problem with private clinics offering personal health testing services (such as testing for HIV and STD testing) or clinics of any kind for that matter is that they often have to take patient bookings using a manual paper based system; very often the system is slow and antiquated. The result is that their appointment slots are not filled to capacity which means lost revenue.
For example if you consider a clinic that offers appointments for testing at say $200 per test, and on average they have 4 appointment slots a day free, then that is $800 per day lost money, which is $4,000 per week and a huge $200,000 a year revenue that they could have made.
A UK based company called Value Partner has developed a potential answer to this problem, a new online patient generating and booking system called Clinic Beans. The system fills up the clinic s appointment system efficiently, so the clinic can make more money and at the same time test more people and reduce the spread of diseases; many people unwittingly spread disease because they have not been tested and therefore are not aware that they are carriers of the disease.
How the System Work
The clinic informs the Clinic Beans system of which appointment slots they have available (this is done electronically) and the Clinic Beans system then automatically fills those slots with new patient appointments.
A basic overview of the system is given below:
Step 1: Patient checks the availability of appointments using the Clinic Bean system.
Step 2: Patient books a slot via Clinic Bean system
Step 3: The Clinic Beans system processes this appointment, and then automatically updates the Clinic’s own appointment system 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is also possible that the clinic can use the Clinic Beans system as their own appointment booking system.
Benefits
By using Clinic Beans, a clinic can better and more optimally manage the availability of their resources; it does this by integrating with the clinic’s existing appointment system. This means the Clinic Beans system can add or update the clinic’s own appointment schedule 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The clinic simply has to inform the Clinic Beans system of which appointment slots are empty, and then the Clinic Beans system will automatically provide new appointments for these previously empty slots, bringing the clinic more revenue and better utilization of their resources.
Support
The Clinic Beans team provides support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; to help with the familiarization process, we will provide you with access to the system for 30 days free of charge (assuming we can build an interface to your existing system fairly quickly and cost effectively)
About Us
Value Partner Ltd is a UK based privately funded company that has developed Clinic Beans to meet the appointment needs of clinics all over the world. The company has spent over 10,000 hours developing the system and is keen to introduce the system to clinics that want to make more money form their existing facilities.
Currently, the Clinic Beans patient appointments system can be used by private clinics where a GP referral is not required, such as testing for HIV, Chlamydia testing and all other forms of STD tests.
We are keen to work with your clinic, so please visit our website at www.clinicbeans.com or email us at info@clinicbeans.com