A self-registration device being tested at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance could soon be in use throughout the Erie St. Clair LHIN if it's successful at cutting wait times.
Outpatients are typically asked to arrive an hour before appointments simply to get registered. But hospital official Karen Waymouth says the kiosk will streamline that.
"They come right in from ambulatory care, up to the unit, there is no wait time in central (registration), they are able to do a registration within 20 seconds and be on their way to their procedure," she says. "It brings up all their current information, their name, ID information, the procedure they are having done, the physicians involved and they just go through and accept those."
The patient must have a health card, must be on record at the hospital and have an appointment for the system to work.
