Patients are usually anxiously awaiting to schedule their exams. They often call saying they are supposed to have an exam done and they haven't heard anything about the exam. This would help eliminate unnecessary phone calls from patients as well as reduce the number of outgoing phone calls to the patients when we try to schedule the exam. Keeping the patient informed of the status of their exam would be beneficial to the patients and increase efficiency in the radiology department.
Can you give me more information on how you would want to inform the patient? Are you asking for an automated way to send based on a prior authorization status within the software? Or would you like a way to free text wording to be sent to the patient via text or email?