3 Ways Digital Forms Can Help Your Small Healthcare Practice

Digital forms present small practices with an exciting opportunity to optimize, streamline, and improve their daily workflows and patient communication

When relying on paper forms, data often slips through the cracks, due to missing documents, incomplete patient forms, errors rekeying data into digital platforms, and miscalculations. Missing data, in turn, results in costly delays, cumbersome and inconsistent communication with customers, and difficult to optimize processes. 

With HIPAA-secure digital forms, your small practice can gather more complete, accurate information, while simultaneously improving efficiencies and patient communication. Digital healthcare forms can look exactly like your practice’s existing work documents, or brand new versions. Your digitized forms can be easily equipped with business logic, to make form fields Required, make fields dynamically Visible or Hidden, and even add instant calculations. These digital forms can be instantly generated from phones, tablets, and computers, and links to your forms can even be shared with patients or posted to your practice’s website. Once completed, submitted forms and data are instantly available for review, processing, and record-keeping, and even instantly uploaded to connected systems and platforms. 

There are countless ways digital healthcare forms can improve your small practice’s daily activities and patient care, including: 

1. Fill paper gaps between your business systems
   Many small practices already have medical systems or other business applications in place, but still rely on paper forms to collect and share information. This leaves your practice vulnerable to missing, flawed, or incomplete data. Digital healthcare forms empower your small practice to fill the paper gaps between its systems, allowing for more complete, accurate, and useful data capture. Your digital forms can even be connected to your other business systems, allowing data to flow seamlessly in real-time throughout your operation. 

2. Automate, streamline, and accelerate patient communication
   Accelerate patient intake and processing by digitally submitting, storing, and sharing forms – even with users outside of your account. Automated Workflows can be used to easily configure ‘set-and-forget’ processes, allowing forms to be instantly emailed to healthcare providers, administrators, and patients upon completion. These automations ensure patients receive important communications and documents regarding their appointments and services, without relying on administrative teams. With prompt, highly professional automated communication, your practice can effortlessly nurture new and existing patients and encourage repeat visitors. 

3. More thorough, accurate information
   Finally, one of the most powerful benefits of leveraging digital healthcare forms is the ability to rapidly collect highly accurate, complete information. By adding business logic to your forms, critical fields like patient Signatures, birth dates, and more, must be input before a form can be submitted. With more thorough, accurate information, your practice can more precisely pinpoint patient needs, practice opportunities, and obstacles to address – all in real-time!

HIPAA-secure digital forms and data capture
HIPAA-secure mobile forms provide seamless, safeguarded data capture for healthcare professionals. Utilizing our HIPAA-secure mobile forms, healthcare teams can accelerate patient intake, eliminate administrative bottlenecks, and rapidly access sensitive patient data – all from mobile devices. Interested in our HIPAA-secure edition? Click here to learn more and request a demo. 

To learn more about how digital forms can improve your small practice, check out the four essential forms for healthcare practices here.