How to Accelerate Patient Intake with the Public Forms Feature
Patient intake is a common roadblock for healthcare operations looking to improve their daily operations. Cumbersome new patient intake paperwork results in a deluge of administrative work, resulting in frustrating delays for both care providers and patients alike. Many teams have discovered that completing patient intake processes before a patient’s appointment helps to alleviate many of these burdens, however, this can be difficult for patients forced to use static PDFs and complicated software.
With online healthcare forms, patient intake can be completed ahead of time and significantly streamlined. Leveraging the GoFormz Public Forms feature, links to your online healthcare forms can be shared with patients via email, text, or a website link, allowing patients to enter and submit their medical history information ahead of their appointment.
For example, a link to your practice’s new patient intake form could be automatically emailed to patients in response to a scheduled appointment. They could then fill out and submit the patient intake form from their location, which would then be immediately available for review and processing. This means no forms need to be printed, hand-delivered, or mailed, and new patient processing can take place ahead of the appointment. Utilizing digital patient intake forms, submitted documents can even be instantly uploaded to connected systems, Tagged with a patient or practitioner’s name, or uploaded to the Cloud.
With fewer administrative demands, patients, in turn, experience fewer delays, while benefitting from the modern, highly professional digital user interface provided by digital forms.
To create a Public Forms link for your digital healthcare patient intake forms, follow the simple steps below:
Login to GoFormz from a computer, and select the ‘Public Forms’ tab.
When the Public Forms tab loads, click ‘Create’.
When prompted to select whether you would like to use the Public Forms feature to share a Template (multi-use) or Form (single-use), select Template. This will allow as many patients as necessary to complete their intake paperwork, using the same link.
Next, enter your Public Form’s name, and select which fields to make editable to patients. You can also choose to add an expiration date (which limits user input to a specific period). Click next.
With your Public Form configured, you can now choose to copy a link to your patient intake Public Form and post it to your website or send it directly to patients via email or text.
To learn more about leveraging Public Forms check out this blog post. Or, to explore our HIPAA-secure edition visit our HIPAA overview page.
