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The automated medical receptionist that we describe in this article helps small medical offices to speed up their everyday tasks. The multiple features of this medical receptionist system are specially implemented in such a way as to make the medical office more responsive to the needs of the patients and to increase its efficiency.

We can say that the automatic medical receptionist not only offloads many tasks from the human receptionist, but also it allows patients to become involved in the medical practice and to feel closer to it. It allows patients to sign-up with it and to schedule appointments on their own over the internet.

On top of that, every single patient will feel more taken care of thanks to the email and SMS reminders he will receive as the date of his/her appointment nears.

However, patient no-shows and appointment scheduling are two important issues that do not concern large medical practices only, but also small ones. The virtual medical receptionist, in fact, has not been designed for a specific type of medical office, but aims to “assist” all those who wish to benefit from a more efficient work environment.

Every medical office be it a big medical clinic or a small solo practice has patients who must be seen, treated and cured. Offering these patients extra services like email and SMS reminders, automated reminder calls, online scheduling and custom web forms will only make patients feel that the medical clinic cares about them. At the same time these extra services will simplify the doctor’s life.

Small practices, in fact, having no human receptionist welcoming patients and handling all sorts of complaints, phone calls and so forth, center around the doctor’s figure, who has to perform both medical and secretarial tasks.

The virtual medical receptionist is an extremely effective and hard-working “employee”. It speaks multiple languages, backups automatically your patient data when the time for that comes, calls your patients to remind them of appointments and even takes care of the patients’ appointments.

How much are you prepared to pay for such a medical receptionist? Most people wouldn’t mind paying all that it takes. However the automated medical receptionist actually comes at a very modest monthly price. It never makes the common human mistakes that happen when one is overstressed. The automated receptionist never forgets to write down an appointment. It never deletes files by a mistake, it does not lose important documents and always remembers to remind patients of their appointments.

Even better – the automated medical receptionist is fit to work for any type of medical practice, because it can perform the work that would otherwise require several live receptionists to complete. However the virtual receptionist system is not only more cost-effective but it is also more efficient. Many of you would give the rightful objection that a “virtual” receptionist will never be able to replace a human one and we have to agree with you. At the same we want to say that the main task of the virtual receptionist is to “help” doctors and receptionists by taking over the tedious and repetitive tasks and letting doctors and receptionists focus of patient care instead of wasting time in making phone call and reminding patients about appointments.

And for those of you who run small medical practices, the virtual medical receptionist will certainly you throughout your growth, while allowing you to focus on your patients and will also increase your income, which is definitely a good thing for you and your business.

Are you looking for an automatic medical receptionist that would take over the repetitive tasks and would schedule appointments online and over the phone? Check out what AssistMedic has to offer you.