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Using Automations for Patient Sign up

Automate onboarding and care plans using task lists, visit trackers, alerts, and triggers in ChiroHD.

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📝 Overview

ChiroHD offers a suite of automation tools that significantly reduce manual tasks and ensure a consistent onboarding and care experience for patients. This article outlines how task lists, triggers, visit trackers, and patient alert templates work together when a patient signs up for care—and how to set them up so the system does the work for you.


🔧 Key Automation Components

  1. 🗂️ Task Lists
    Custom action item checklists for key visits (e.g., Day 2). Tasks can be assigned to specific roles and given due dates.

  2. ⏱️ Triggers
    Rules that automatically assign task lists based on criteria like appointment type and arrival status.

  3. 📣 Patient Alert Templates
    Predefined alerts to notify staff or patients about upcoming care plan milestones (e.g., visit 5 scan reminders).

  4. 📈 Visit Trackers
    Track patient progress against care packages. Alert your team as patients near the end of their plan.


🔄 Workflow Overview: How Automations Work Together

✅ Step 1: Create and Attach a Task List

  • Navigate to: System Settings > Lists

  • Example Task List (e.g., “Day 2”):

    • Take payment

    • Add visit tracker

    • Apply patient alert template


✅ Step 2: Set a Trigger to Launch the Task List

  • Navigate to: System Settings > Triggers

  • Example Trigger:

    • When: Appointment status changes to Arrived

    • What: Appointment type = Day 2

    • Action: Apply “Day 2 Task List”


✅ Step 3: Create Patient Alert Templates

  • Navigate to: System Settings > Patient Alert Templates

  • Example Alerts:

    • On 5th visit: “Schedule scan at next visit”

    • On 11th visit: “Next visit is the last”

    • On 12th visit: “Discuss wellness care”

📌 Build templates for common care plans to save time at enrollment.


👥 Patient Enrollment in Action

🔹 Step 1: Day 1 Visit

  • Add new patient

  • Schedule and check in

  • Provider completes SOAP note

  • Front desk takes payment for new patient exam


🔹 Step 2: Day 2 Visit

  • Schedule and check in

  • Trigger fires, applying the Day 2 Task List

  • Staff follows each task in the list


🧩 Completing the Day 2 Task List

  1. 💳 Take Payment for Care Package

    • Record in Transactions

    • Ledger shows credit

  2. 💲 Set Discounted Charges

    • Navigate to: Patient Case > Default Charges

    • Apply write-off (e.g., $40 off a $90 adjustment)

    • Set Charge Frequency to Every Visit

  3. 📊 Add a Visit Tracker

    • Go to Visit Tracker tab

    • Name the tracker (e.g., 12 Visit Prepaid)

    • Start from today, count = 12 visits

    • Tracker updates automatically

  4. 🚨 Apply a Patient Alert Template

    • Go to Alerts tab

    • Choose prebuilt template (e.g., 12-visit package)

    • Alerts are generated (e.g., scan due on visit 5)

  5. 🧾 Add Today’s Adjustment (if applicable)

    • Go to Transactions > New Transaction

    • Select the adjustment

    • Discounted fee applies automatically

    • Ledger updates


📊 Monitoring Progress

As the patient continues care:

  • Charges apply automatically

  • Visit tracker increments each visit

  • Alerts notify team of milestones

  • Ledger balances reduce as care is delivered

📌 Result: Consistent, automated, and time-saving workflows with minimal manual input.


✅ Key Takeaways

  • Use task lists, triggers, alerts, and visit trackers to automate patient onboarding

  • Setup once and let ChiroHD guide your team at each step

  • Milestones and care progress are tracked in real-time

  • Patients receive consistent, professional service across all visits


📌 Conclusion

ChiroHD’s automation tools bring efficiency and structure to patient onboarding and care delivery. From triggering workflows to tracking visits and sending reminders, your team saves time and ensures every patient receives a consistent experience. Set up your automations once—and let ChiroHD do the rest.

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