Subjective Questionnaire for Patient Check-In - More Flexibility for Practices, Providers, and Patients

Breaking News: New Chirotouch Enhancements Now Available

Subjective questionnaires for patient check-in bring even more flexibility to practices, providers, and patients.  

Using the newly enhanced feature, Subjective Questionnaire for Patient Check-In, you can utilize a comprehensive ChiroTouch self-built questionnaire.  

You can create subjective questionnaires per appointment to be presented to patients during self-check-in. That means the patient’s subjective complaint is captured during check-in and brought into the chart note, which reduces the time DCs need to collect and document that information.  

You Asked. We Delivered.

For customers using our server-based ChiroTouch, we acted on two pieces of feedback in the Ideas portal.  

The first is making it easy to configure your questionnaire. The second is adding free-text boxes where patients can type in more information. So, not only can you select from an extensive list of questions, but you can also choose the questions you ask for each appointment type based on existing lists, which gives you even more flexibility.  

Finally, with this new feature enhancement, we included every question available on the server-based ChiroTouch, plus additional questions our users asked us to have.  

How Does a Subjective Questionnaire for Patient Check-in Improve the Patient Experience?    

For patients doing the self-check-in, they will still see their appointment time. But, when they click check-in, they will see the questionnaire that’s been designed by you.  

That patient can then go through the questionnaire, completing it with the information about today’s symptoms. For example, they can select where their pain is and whether it has increased. They can even choose ”there” and type in a description, and add other complaints too.  

Let’s imagine your patient has chosen their lower back as their primary complaint. Once the patient finishes their questionnaire about the low back, the patient is prompted to confirm, asking if there is anything else to add. If what they’ve added is their only complaint, they click finish, and they are all checked in. As a provider, you’ll see what they answered as you begin charting their visit.    

Five Reasons to Love the New Subjective Questionnaire for Patient Check-in  

Here are five ways the new enhancement can improve the check-in experience for providers, practices, and patients:  

1. Choose From an Extensive List of Questions

As a provider, you can choose from an extensive collection of pre-populated questions, choosing the ones you’d like your patients to fill in based on their appointment type. You can add more questions from the prepopulated list and also remove questions on the fly.  

2.  Auto Copies Responses Into Chart Notes

You can build your patient check-in form, allowing your patient to go through and answer whether they’ve experienced any symptoms today. It then all auto copies that subjective self-check-in information into chart notes, so there’s no need to do it manually.  

3. Preview Questions and Answers the Way a Patient Would See Them

You can preview each question to see what it will look like to the patient. You can also see how the answers and the narrative populate in the chart note.  

You can view any of the questions you choose for your patient self-check-in questionnaire, individually and in total. That means you see how it will look to your patient when they go through and answer the questions.  

4. Configure Questions for Different Appointment Types

You can customize per provider and per appointment type. As a provider, you can configure questions for every different appointment type. For example, a wellness visit might have other questions than an active treatment visit.  

5. Copy and Paste to Make Configuration Faster

You can copy and paste what you set up for a different provider or appointment type, making that configuration a little bit faster. So, if you want your check-in questionnaire to be the same or have a couple of employment types you wish to copy from another one, you can. Likewise, you can copy from a different provider for an appointment type.  

Patients Can Give You Comprehensive Updates After Completing Initial Intake Forms

This enhancement allows your patients to provide comprehensive updates after you’ve already done the initial intake and collected the whole new patient’s history.  The Subjective Questionnaire for Patient Check-in does not replace an intake form. If you’re looking for a fully customizable intake form to streamline your new patient intake process, check out CT Informs.