ABELDent has some exciting new features coming to the program soon, including the ability to customize ABELDent’s online forms. Digital forms are a staple for many modern-day businesses and healthcare offices, including dentistry. From new patient intake forms to health history to consent forms for treatment, your practice may already generate plenty of electronic files for forms every week. If your practice is not fully paperless yet, consider some of the following benefits of digitizing your practice’s files, particularly by implementing online forms.
Benefits of Using Online Forms in Your Dental Practice
- Online forms remove the hassle of digitizing paper-based forms, saving your team valuable time.
- They reduce the potential for error that paper-based forms have, such as illegible handwriting or physical damage to the form, such as rips, tears, spills, etc.
- Digital forms are more convenient for prospects and patients to fill out at home, eliminating issues such as losing the form, not being able to print out a form from your website, or forgetting to bring the form to your appointment.
- Patients can fill out forms in the days before their appointment, cutting out the time spent in your waiting room and providing your team with the opportunity to review the form before the patient visit.
- Online forms are easier to manage, especially if they are sent directly to your patients’ files in your practice management program. Dental software such as ABELDent makes managing online forms easy with built-in form features.
- Depending on your software of choice, online forms can be more secure than paper forms. ABELDent, for example, uses encryption to ensure your patients’ PHI (personal health information) is protected.
- Eliminating paper waste helps save your office’s resources, lowers your practice’s carbon footprint, and helps you save money that would have been spent on printer paper and ink.
What if the digital forms you currently have don’t meet your practice’s expectations? What if you need to make an adjustment to your practice’s online forms? Practices using ABELDent Cloud or Local+ benefit from ABELDent’s Form Builder, which provides you with the tools you need to edit the online forms you use to meet your needs.
With ABELDent’s Form Builder, you can add or remove questions from forms, edit existing questions, change the order of questions, and insert informational paragraphs in between questions. ABELDent’s versatile form builder lets you create and edit any forms your practice may need and makes sending forms easier than ever before. Additionally, once your patient submits their digital form, the form goes directly to their patient file, eliminating the process of scanning or inserting information manually.
You can also use the Form Builder to create an online form from scratch, customizing your office’s form to match your practice preferences. If your office changes branding or has a logo change, for instance, you can easily update your forms to match the new branding without having to create brand-new forms.
To learn how to use ABELDent’s Form Builder, watch our video below.
If you are interested in learning about ABELDent’s upcoming features, get in touch with our sales team for more information, or give us a call at 1-800-267-ABEL (2235).
