What is a Clinic Management System?

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Clinics have been popular with patients with
minor ailments and also for certain specialties.
They provide easy access to healthcare without
having to go to hospitals. For a visit with a
dentist or an ophthalmologist, most people visit
a doctor at their clinics rather than spend time
waiting at a hospital.  Other than specialized
clinics, general health clinics in remote
locations play a huge role in providing
healthcare services where access to hospitals may
not be easy. Primary healthcare centres across
the country conduct vaccination camps, and
regular health check-ups in regions that may
otherwise suffer from a lack of healthcare. 
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Even though the number of doctors in a clinic may
be low, there is a steady stream of patients and
it may not be easy to handle them. It may not be
easy to maintain the records of the patients in a
small-scale clinic for long durations. A clinic
management software or practice management
software provides a suite of functionalities that
makes it easy to manage a clinic. A medical
practice management system is used to manage the
patients, the appointments, the doctors
schedules, prescriptions, manage inventory, etc.
It makes the otherwise difficult task of managing
a clinic. These days, practice management systems
come with Android and iOS apps with which the
doctors can check their schedule, and patients
can book appointments, manage prescriptions, etc,
and may provide SMS or email notifications
regarding appointments. They are more or less a
lighter version of a hospital management system,
with more focus on the clinics specialization. 
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Electronic health records An electronic health
record is one of the main features of these
clinic management systems. They are used to store
patient data in a digital format. Unlike paper
records, digital records dont get damaged over
time. One of the most common problems associated
with a patient record is that the data is not
legible. During a doctors busy schedule, there
isnt much time to make accurate and legible
records of every procedure performed. This leads
to errors and difficulties in the future.
Electronic health records provide an easy
solution for this. In some software systems,
there are templates for these health records with
which doctors can make quick records without
compromising on accuracy. These templates are
often customized for a specialty making it much
easier to create records, and this can be
especially useful for clinics focused on a
particular specialty. While some clinics use
standalone EMR software, these most practice
management systems come with an integrated EMR
system.
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Appointment management system Booking and
managing appointments are two of the most common
problems faced by clinics. A medical practice
management system makes it easy for a clinic to
easily manage its appointments. Most clinics
follow a token-based system for queue management,
and this can become difficult when there are
patients who have made appointments before. Also,
it's not easy to provide clear timings for
walk-in patients due to the appointments made. In
a clinic management system, this can be solved
with the help of integrated queue management, as
a patient registers for an appointment at the
clinic, the patients name is added to the days
schedule without conflicts with patients who have
made appointments earlier.
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Dedicated app An android or an IOS app that goes
with the software can aid the clinic by making
appointment bookings online. This will help the
patients to make appointments easily at any time,
even on public holidays when the clinic staff is
not there to note down the appointments. With
this app, doctors can also easily check their
appointment schedules. The system is aimed at
making a clinic more user-friendly. 
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Billing and accounting software Most clinics use
software just for the purpose of billing, and
this increases the workload, requiring manual
re-entry of the different procedures performed
for billing purposes. With integrated billing, a
clinic management system tracks the complete
treatment of a patient and can be used to create
financial records much easier than with
stand-alone billing software. With this, the
complete financial record of the clinic, such as
expenditures, and returns, can be tracked easily. 
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Manage multiple locations If youre managing
clinics at multiple locations, with the help of a
single online clinic management software, all of
them can be easily managed with a clinic
management system. Data from the individual
clinics can be viewed from a single system, often
just by using a smartphone app. MIS or master
information sheets of individual clinics can give
you accurate information about the workings of
your clinics.