MD Logic Patient Kiosk – A HUGE Time Saver

MD Logic, the leader in high performance EMR/EHR solutions, continues to lead the health care market when it comes to engineering software solutions designed to save time. The goal of implementing an Electronic Health Record solution should be to increase efficiency and gain productivity.

We have all visited a doctor’s office at some point in time that has provided a clip board at the time of your visit. On that clip board is a paper form that you are required to complete that captures your past medical history. Once completed, the staff and or the doctor must manually transfer all the medical information from that piece of paper into the electronic health record system. This task is time consuming and is prone to errors due to the redundancy in recording data. MD Logic was the first Electronic Health Record Company (EHR) to release a touch screen patient kiosk solution designed to quickly capture the patients past medical information. Not only were we the first EHR Company to release a patient kiosk but we remain the only EHR Company that allows our doctors the ability to customize their patient kiosk questions for any type of visit. The doctors are always in control of the questions asked to their patients.

The MD Logic patient kiosk replaces the paper form with a touch screen kiosk or Apple iPad in the waiting room. As the patient “touches-in” their past medical history on the MD Logic Patient Kiosk, all the medical information is “immediately” updated into the patient’s health record. This eliminates the doctor and staff having to read those hand written paper forms which then have to be transferred into the EHR. In Atlanta, Georgia Rick Hammesfahr, M.D., a Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon with the Center for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine has successfully implemented the MD Logic Patient Kiosk. Dr. Hammesfahr said “we are a very busy Orthopaedic clinic and are always searching for more efficient ways to run our clinic. We implemented MD Logic back in 1999 as our first step in automating the collection of clinical data. We have touch screens installed throughout the clinic in all of the examination rooms. Once released, our clinic quickly adopted the MD Logic Patient Kiosk software. We use the Apple iPad and hand one to each patient as they checked in for their appointment. The tablets are portable and easy for any patient to use.

“I liked how fast I was able to customize the questions in the MD Logic Patient Kiosk to follow the questions our clinic had been using on our “paper” past medical history forms. Due to the speed of the touch screen, we have expanded our kiosk questions to gather even more patient information prior to the patient being seen in the exam room. The time savings we have noticed since implementing the MD Logic Patient Kiosk has been outstanding. All the time wasted by having my staff re-enter information from a paper form has been eliminated. Feedback from my patients has been very positive as the patients love the idea of the “touch screen” over filling out a paper form. I would strongly recommend the patient kiosk to any clinic looking to further streamline their workflow”.

Thomas J. Bierster, Jr., CEO of MD Logic stated “our development team has done an outstanding job in designing our patient kiosk. Clinics that have implemented our patient kiosk software have reported an increase in the number of patients seen each day in clinic. The increase in production has resulted in an increase in profitability from the clinic. The data collected in the MD Logic Patient Kiosk is accurate, legible and most important saves time.”

To learn how your clinic can benefit from the MD Logic Patient Kiosk please contact us at 800-273-7750.