The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a commercial vendor to build a new patient scheduling system for the department. The VA calls its current system — Veterans Health Information Systems and ...

The Veterans Affairs Department has kicked off the contracting process to develop its new patient scheduling system, a follow-up to a nine year, $167 million project that collapsed in March 2009 and ...

Long waits, frustrated patients, and overburdened staff—these scenarios plague clinics without efficient scheduling systems. Running a clinic demands more than just good healthcare; managing patient ...

In May 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop focused on the key oper­ational characteristics and functionalities of a state-of-the-art patient scheduling ...

For the past decade, health systems have been told to invest in digital front door (DFD) technologies to solve access challenges. Many did so, modernizing websites, rolling out online scheduling, and ...

Oracle is unveiling AI tools that help patients better manage their healthcare journey through the patient portal. It's a strategy many providers are embracing as they look to improve their digital ...

SSM Health is a health system headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with 23 hospitals and more than 650 physician offices serving Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. For SSM Health, continuous ...

Outpatient oncology clinics face substantial challenges in coordinating high volumes of treatments with limited resources. The optimisation of patient flow and appointment scheduling is critical to ...

In 2009, the Veterans Affairs Department canceled its patient scheduling system -- dubbed the Replacement Scheduling Application Development Program -- after spending $167 million over eight years and ...

The Veterans Administration's Office of Inspector General released a report recently, following an investigation into a scheduling error in the new Oracle electronic ...

In May 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop focused on the key oper­ational characteristics and functionalities of a state-of-the-art patient scheduling ...