Using the Internet for Your Urgent Care Center

Practice Velocity® systems harness the power and simplicity of the Internet to make urgent care centers more efficient and profitable in delivering high quality medical care to their patients. Physicians access the Practice Velocity Urgent Care EMR VelociDoc® right over the Internet. Using the same type of security used in Internet banking, they simply need a website address, a username and a password and they can download and start using the EMR in minutes.

All medical records, even those from visits at other centers within an urgent care chain, are readily available over the Internet to the urgent care physician. This means that urgent care staff can access records from a clinic, even if the patient's last visit was to another urgent care center in the chain.

Urgent care centers themselves should use the Internet in many other ways to improve the urgent care center. Some of these methods include:

• Get a website. Purchase a URL, e.g., www.myurgentcare.com, and get it online. Way too many urgent care centers don’t do this, or if they do it, they wait too long. It is important to show up well in the Google search results, and Google tends to ignore websites that have been up for less than six months. So get your website up months before you open and add lots of interesting content to the site.
• Consider using a blog. Blogs allow you to tell the world about your vision and experiences in urgent care. Tell the public and corporate clients about your unique services and how they make a difference in your community.
• Practice Velocity customers get a free listing on the Practice Velocity urgent care directory GoUrgentCare.com. You can rapidly gain visibility on the Internet by listing your urgent care center on the Directory. You can even upload your logo and a photo of your urgent care clinic. The site received over 1,000,000 page views in 2009.
• Get your website listed on Google, Yahoo and MSN.
• Consider a Facebook page for your urgent care. Social media is a growing aspect of urgent care. For an example urgent care Facebook page, take a look at the facebook page of Physicians Immediate Care, a chain of clinics owned by the same three physicians who own Practice Velocity.
  
  

EMR

Practice Velocity's leading urgent care software solutions and electronic medical records (EMR) systems are used by over 750 urgent care centers in 49 states. The Practice Velocity practice management solutions offers complete revenue cycle management. Including patient registration, charting, medical coding (E/M, CPT, ICD-9), electronic billing (EDI), electronic remittance (ERA), and complete reports (accounts receivable, patient flow, marketing, and more).