Practice and review on real-time hospital booking registration

Abstract

This paper described the practice of real-time booking registration, in which the patients may freely choose their visit time points, by such means as the outpatient clinic, website, telephone or short messaging. Such booking registration is an important measure to improve service quality at outpatient clinics; information technology is a prerequisite for real-time booking registration; pooling of outpatient ID number resources is key to setting up the booking registration; the prepaid card deposit practice makes booking registration more efficient; enhanced management for supporting services safeguards booking registration; cooperation with qualified third parties is an effective way to accomplish booking registration in a convenient manner. This paper also probed into other issues in relation to real-time booking registration. Key words: Booking registration; Real-time registration; Booking permitted patients to choose visit time points; Hospital information system