Ambulatory Care System
Ambulatory Care System
Ambulatory Care System
SYSTEM
AMBULATORY CARE
>Covers a wide range of health care services that are provided for patients who are
not admitted overnight to a hospital.
>These services are performed at outpatient clinics, urgent care centers, emergency
rooms, ambulatory or same-day surgery centers, diagnostic and imaging centers,
primary care centers, community health centers, occupational health centers, mental
health clinics, and group practices.
>With this system, the patient waiting time is optimized through effective queue
management.
>It involves one-time registration required per visit. It also facilitates the management
of doctors schedule.
Sites where ambulatory care can be delivered
>Reduced errors with the availability of various automation engines – drug interaction
engine; medical alert engine; patient billing engine, etc.
>Automated and integrated back-end process such as pharmacy, billing, purchasing,
inventory management, etc.
>Better monitoring and management of costs – prescription, consumables, doctor’s fees, etc.
• The ambulatory care nurse and other health care provider should be
capable enough to implement the process effectively.
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system. Retrieved from http://nursingcrib.com/nursing-informatics/nursing-informatics-in-ambulatory-
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