SuperOrder: Provider order recommendation system for outpatient clinics

Opt-out provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling in primary care outpatient clinics in Zambia.

OBJECTIVE To increase case-finding of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Zambia and their referral to HIV care and treatment by supplementing existing client-initiated voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), the dominant mode of HIV testing in the country. METHODS Lay counsellors offered provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) to all outpatients who attended p...

Managing a mixed-registration-type appointment system in outpatient clinics

INTRODUCTION Improving outpatient resource utilization significantly enhances the efficiency of healthcare organizations. Substantial number of walk-in patients (average of 72% in our study) to outpatient services is a universal characteristic of Taiwan's healthcare organizations. Consequently, scheduling becomes extremely complicated and important. Selecting the right scheduling alternative, a...

An Appointment Order Outpatient Scheduling System That Improves Outpatient Experience

Patient wait time and access to care have long been a recognized problem in modern outpatient healthcare delivery systems. Despite all the efforts to develop appointment rules and policies, the problem of long patient waits persists. Regardless of the reasons, the fact remains that there are few implemented models for effective scheduling that consider patient wait times, physician idle time, o...

Peripheral outpatient clinics: use, costs, and benefits.

A census was taken of outpatient bookings at all hospitals and health centres in Oxfordshire for the main medical and surgical specialities. Nine per cent of all bookings were to peripheral clinics (that is, those outsie the two main medical centres at Oxford and Banbury). About half of all bookings in the area were made to clinics within three of four miles of the patients' homes. The work loa...

E-Health at Outpatient Clinics in Uganda