Digital Surgical Planning Sheets: Transform Your Ophthalmology Practice
Ophthalmic surgeries are perhaps the most demanding service your practice offers. With so much at stake and many moving pieces, getting everything from pre-op appointments to post-op prescriptions in place can be a struggle for surgical staff, especially when handling high volumes of clients.
The chief antagonist of surgical coordinators is the ubiquitous surgical planning sheet. Standard in most ophthalmology practices, these paper sheets—once a necessary evil—have a reputation for being annoying to handle, easy to misplace, and prone to human error. Ironically, coordinators need to plan surgeries efficiently, but the tool they rely on is inherently inefficient.
And so the same Sisyphean scene repeats, day in and day out, at ophthalmology practices across the country:
a surgical coordinator, numb from monotony, re-scans an identical form for the umpteenth time. Crying internally, they dream of a way to integrate surgical planning sheets into their EHR without having to print and scan endless physical copies.
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Well, now their dreams are a reality. EHR providers like
OphthalmologyEHR are transforming how surgical coordinators plan surgeries with new
digital surgical planning sheet solutions.
In short, these tools keep all the same organizational benefits as paper planning sheets without the inconvenient drawbacks. If your ophthalmology practice hasn’t switched to digital surgical planning sheets yet, you’re missing out on a host of benefits that will make your practice more productive, coordinated, and stress-free.
Why Your Practice Needs Digital Surgical Planning Sheets for Ophthalmology
Save Time
Surgical coordinators agree: the best thing about digital surgical planning sheets is their timesaving functionality.
Gone are the days of printing, scanning, reprinting, and re-scanning your paper surgical planning sheets over and over for every surgery. Digital surgical planning sheets take your entire surgical planning workflow and bring it straight into your EHR.
This level of integration supports a level of efficiency unknown to
providers stuck on paper sheets. By letting coordinators manage every aspect of an upcoming surgery from their computer or tablet, digital planning sheets cut back on routine tasks and turn all those tedious time sinks into effortless accomplishments.
Stay Organized
With integrated digital planning sheets, your team will prepare for surgeries in seconds using hard-coded plans. Simply select the applicable procedure (cataracts, glaucoma, etc.), choose which eye(s) they will operate on and in what order, and pick an inter-ocular lens. Your digital surgical planning sheets handle the rest.
After you’ve set your surgery date, your digital planning sheets will create a post-op appointment plan automatically, which can easily be edited according to patient preference. This takes all the hard work out of coordination and ensures important steps, like post-op follow-ups, don’t slip by the wayside.
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Capture Consent
It’s essential to ensure that everyone involved in eye surgery agrees with the care plan, is aware of the risks, and understands their responsibilities. Consent forms don’t just protect your practice; they protect your patients.
However, getting consent forms signed and stored manually can be tiresome. Automatically populating digital surgical planning sheets with patients’ medical history instead enables surgical staff to quickly identify and capture consent forms and catalog them for future reference at each stage of the process.
This way, not only will your team become more consistent with getting consent forms completed, but they won’t have to waste time searching through paper documents to confirm previous signatures. With digital surgical planning sheets, everything you need is right there, every time.
Set Reminders
Digital surgical planning sheets let coordinators set convenient notifications and reminders for increased punctuality and consistency. Have an important task to do? In just a few clicks, you can create a reminder and assign it to a team member. That way, whether you need to check in with a patient’s medical clearance or confirm an appointment, you’ll always know which responsibilities you’ve handed off and what’s still on your plate.
Streamline Prescriptions
Eye surgery extends beyond the operating room. For everything to go as planned, your team has to manage a range of pre and post-op variables, including medications. Managing prescriptions from within the surgical planning sheet makes this complicated process simple and efficient.
You’ll also be able to print accurate educational handouts to help patients understand their pre or post-op medical plans. Empowering clients with valuable information from the start can take some workload off your staff, who would otherwise spend energy on patient questions and concerns.
Billing
Your ophthalmology practice is still a business. That means getting paid for all your hard work is a top priority.
Digital surgical planning sheets bring your
billing solution into the coordinating process. Without switching screens or systems, your coordinators can provide patients with a quote, see payment status, and, if you have integrated credit card readers, collect payments on the fly.
Get the Best Digital Surgical Planning Sheets Today
Your practice wants digital surgical planning sheets and all the benefits that come with them, but you may not know where to find them. Not every EHR has these remarkable tools.
If you’re serious about saving time and increasing productivity with best-in-class surgical planning sheets, there’s only one option: OphthalmologyEHR. OphthalmologyEHR has the industry’s leading digital surgical planning sheets
and offers the best ophthalmology EHR solution on the market
at the best price.
Built by ophthalmologists, for ophthalmologists, OphthalmologyEHR’s all-in-one platform covers every aspect of running an ophthalmology office, from ophthalmic care and surgical coordination to
administration and billing. Contact our team and discover how our digital surgical planning sheets and revolutionary EHR system can transform your ophthalmology practice today.
Streamline patient records, optimize practice performance, digitally plan and share surgery sheets, communicate with prospective patients, manage lens inventory, and coordinate quality care across your office with OphthalmologyEHR.