{"id":2049,"date":"2018-02-08T18:06:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techjockey.com\/blog\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:56:22","slug":"case-study-dr-amrit-pattojoshi-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techjockey.com\/blog\/case-study-dr-amrit-pattojoshi-clinic","title":{"rendered":"Case Study – Dr Amrit Pattojoshi Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Appointment scheduling in healthcare has become a major challenge at the present time. Various factors need to be considered like service time availability, patient preferences, and the expertise of scheduling staff. A critical bottleneck lies in keeping track of doctor\u2019s availability manually and conveying the same to patients in real-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Medical practitioners also feel that mounting paperwork owing to manual appointment management and medical prescription handling is taking a toll on their productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A famous Physiatrist was also facing similar challenges in appointment scheduling at his clinic. Let\u2019s delve deep into the challenges that he faced while managing his clinic, and how improvisation of automation technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>The Client<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Dr Amrit Pattojoshi is a renowned Physiatrist who runs a clinic in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. Satisfied with the diagnosis, patients of this famous Physiatrist in Bhubaneshwar didn\u2019t shy away from the good word of mouth spreading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soon, the number of appointments increased and the limited staff at his clinic was finding it hard to manage service time availability and patient preferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>The Business Challenge<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A lot of patients used to book appointments at the clinic on a daily basis through the phone call. Managing hundreds of calls manually was not easy for the doctor and his staff every day. He wanted a standard platform where all patient calls can be tracked, and at the same time, his availability can be conveyed. Along with appointment management hurdles, he was also facing other challenges, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Generic customer queries were consuming a lot of time<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Replies to patients on calls varied with no standardization<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Off-hour queries were getting tougher to handle<\/li>\n\n\n\n
There wasn\u2019t any system to prioritize patient calls<\/li>\n\n\n\n
As the call volume was getting higher, the response time was getting low<\/li>\n\n\n\n
There wasn\u2019t any way to remind patients about their upcoming appointments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>The Solution<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
After understanding the pain points of Dr Amrit Pattojoshi\u2019s clinic, our sales experts came up with some advanced telephony menu or integrated voice response (IVR) systems, which can automate customer support and help the client thrive with high call volumes. The client finally went with IVR Guru, and is content with these advanced features of the clinic management software<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n