Appointment Reminders

The practicality and variability associated with this profession will be intellectually challenging. However, I enjoy and am driven by challenging problems. Growing up, I noticed how our pets truly enhance our lives. They are an antidote for our loneliness, enrich our joys, and teach us about loyalty and love. Eventually, I became attracted towards medicine and animals. It wasn’t just because I’m interested in the health and welfare of animals, it was also able because I communicate well with people.

Healthcare reform has created incentives to increase patient engagement to increase accountability, healthcare outcome and lower healthcare cost. In the early days of this movement, web portals were created with basic functions of requesting appointments, prescription refills, and paying medical bills (Butterfield, 2013). Today, patient portals allow users to access dictated visit reports, labs, approve access controls combined with the function of the web portals. As more health information is pushed to the portals, the users (patients and family) are more involved with healthcare decisions and more knowledgeable on available options that meet individual need.

Schmitke stated in her interview that “Our team knows that I check my email daily and they can readily get ahold of me through this method. Email also allows me to send important music files to the team that they can print off at home, and our church office uses email to send me documents to review for the ministry. I also use email as a scheduling device to set up practice times for smaller music ensembles and have used it to schedule piano lessons with a former student who has now graduated” (Schmitke). While email has many uses, differences across various applications can be seen while investigating its features.

Questions arise concerning the treatment of therapy dogs when visiting patients and whether animal-assisted therapy really works at all; however, those who disagree aren’t looking at the big picture. Animal-assisted therapy is both an ethical and effective therapy method due to its success in treating those with chronic diseases, disorders, and managing stress and anxiety. The varieties of cases regarding the success of therapy dog treatments far surmount the amount of cases saying otherwise. Animal-assisted therapy stems from the human-animal connection, one of the most unique and powerful bonds man has ever experienced. It is that connection that allows animal assisted therapy to be a critical part of everyone’s daily

For those with real and severe psychiatric needs, emotional support animals provide a calming presence to the stresses of travel. A passenger simply needs to provide a signed letter from a licensed mental health professional. Even though the research has not fully proven the benefit of support animals, these passengers have a legitimate need that appears to be filled by the pet. Others are not as truthful. Since emotional support animals fly free, many people are dishonest about the purpose of their pets. Due to the ease at which a person can forge medical notes, more people have joined the emotional support bandwagon. The result is a free ride next to their pet, but it comes at the expense of other

Client did not came to the schedule appointment. Therapist received a phone call from client's mother. Mother reported that client was in the hospital as of last night. Mother explained that has been out of control since the weekend; going out with man, provoking mother and sister by cursing, calling them name. Tuesday (7/04/17) night after getting in to an argument with sister, client called the police. The police called EMS but client reported that she would be spending the night at a friend house so client was not taken to the hospital. On 7/5/17 client went back home and it was upset coursing and telling mother that she always take sister side. Client then took a knife an threaten to kill mother and sister and after jumping out of the building.

deciding when a face-to-face interaction is more appropriate than an email, phone call, or paper memo.

The owners of the businesses could have experienced having buyers want to return the pets they bought. I could also find out exactly how much it costs to buy a certain pet, and where the pets come from. If I cannot reach out to an online business I will make a survey or poll in which I ask for the public’s opinion on my

Manual Appointments- This method of scheduling patients is much older or as I like to call it old school. Before all of this new advance technology was ever around,the medical office was using this method for scheduling appointments. This method was called pen-to paper. It consist of much time and alot of stress. Due to the fact that if a single document could had been lost or misplaced it had to be redone again. This method also had a book where the appointments were writing in called a appointment book, or a calendar depending on the office and how the physican like to work with. Now in days majority of the medical office uses modern technology, but there are quite a few that still believe in this old method.

Perron et al. (2013) conducted a trial of 6450 patients receiving appointment reminders in a primary care clinic between November 2010 and April 2011. Subjects were randomly selected to receive either a text or phone call reminders 24 hours before the scheduled appointment. Of the 6450 patients included, 3285 received text-messages and 3165 received telephone reminders. The rate of missed appointments was similar in the text-message group (11.7%,) and in the telephone group (10.2%). Financial analysis concluded that text messages were more cost effective. The research concluded that text messaging and helped reduce missed appointments at similar rates. Patients expressed satisfaction with the pre-appointment reminders.

Outpatient clinic is a health care facility where patients are given treatment on same day instead of hospitalizing them. Most clinics are staffed by Primary care providers (PCPs) that are first point of contact between patients and health systems. PCPs provide the majority of care, the patient receive during lifetime. Thus, it is essential for outpatient clinics to achieve higher patient satisfaction and provide quality care.

Board certified veterinary experts are often geographically limited to larger population centers or clustered at veterinary medical teaching hospitals associated with university systems. This creates a large burden in terms of transport and associated costs if evaluation and care of a patient is beyond the scope of care provided by general veterinary practitioners. One of the earliest and most basic forms of telemedicine, which was used to partially alleviate this situation, was the use of simple phone calls by general practitioners to board certified experts in various veterinary medical fields to obtain expert advice (A. Baum, personal communication, June 25, 2016). This early use eventually evolved into telemedicine consultations, which, in their current form, may involve transfer of images such as radiographs or electrocardiograms.

We have chosen our target market because they own canines and have the ability to afford a service such as Pawsitive Pet Grooming. We are aware that our service is an extra in life, not a necessity. We anticipate and expect to cater to the upper-class

Pet ownership is increasingly popular and the pet business is growing at record rates. The Stay & Play will offer its customers a variety of upscale services not available at other locations and will allow for “one stop” need fulfillment. The timing is right for this venture as animal care is becoming more sought after and pet related spending is at an all-time high. (Pet, 2016) Young professionals who consider their pets a part of the family are spending money on services to enhance the quality of their pet’s lives. (Stevenson, 2016) Thus, the professional services that we will offer including day care, grooming, and boarding in a safe and healthy environment will be largely sought after especially as we combine it with convenience and premium customer service.

I hope this study will give handicapped or people who are challenged with every day task a choice of what animal will be their service partner. I always see dogs as service animals, and I would like to find out if they can have a choice. I know a lot of people that do not like dogs or are allergic to dogs. This research could provide answers to issues with service animals and their