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Addressing Pricing Challenges in Charitable Hospitals  

Published by: Mohammed Siddiq

⚠️ The Challenge: Balancing Affordability with Financial Sustainability

Charitable hospitals often grapple with the need to make healthcare accessible while maintaining financial viability. Unlike commercial pharmacies that typically sell products at the Maximum Retail Price (MRP), charitable hospitals strive to provide medications at prices that are affordable for their patients. This creates a delicate balance between ensuring that the cost of healthcare remains low and covering the operational expenses of the hospital.

One of the key areas where this challenge becomes evident is in the management of pharmacy sales. While the purchase price of a product is fixed, selling it at the MRP might be beyond the reach of many patients. At the same time, selling at or below the purchase price is not sustainable for the hospital. This is where the concept of Differential MRP comes into play.

💡 Solution: Implementing Differential MRP for Charitable Pricing Strategies

To address this challenge, we introduced the Differential MRP feature within the Goods Received Note (GRN) screen. This feature allows hospitals to set a sale price that is higher than the purchase price but lower than the standard MRP, making it an effective tool for charitable hospitals to provide affordable pricing while ensuring that they remain financially sustainable.

🔍 Understanding Differential MRP

The Goods Received Note (GRN) screen is used to record the receipt of products by the pharmacy from suppliers. When adding a product to the GRN, three key pricing parameters are typically involved:

  • Purchase Price: The cost at which the product is bought from the supplier.
  • MRP (Maximum Retail Price): The highest price at which the product can be sold.
  • Sale Rate (formerly Differential MRP): A flexible pricing option that allows hospitals to sell the product at a price that is between the purchase price and MRP.
Differential MRP is particularly useful in scenarios where the hospital needs to offer a reduced price that is fair to both the patient and the institution. This appears in the GRN screen when the corresponding configuration is enabled in the product master. By entering the sale rate alongside the purchase price and MRP, the product can then be sold at this adjusted price on the sales screen.
 
🚀 Recent Enhancements to the Differential MRP Feature

To better align this feature with user needs and improve its usability, we have implemented several key updates:

🔄 Renaming Differential MRP to Sale Rate

To make the feature more intuitive, we have renamed "Differential MRP" to "Sale Rate." This terminology is more straightforward and accurately describes the purpose of this parameter, which is to represent the actual price at which the product will be sold to the patient.

📊 Integration of Sale Rate into MIS Reports

We’ve expanded the visibility of the Sale Rate by incorporating it into several important Management Information System (MIS) reports:

  • Bill-wise Detailed Report: This report now includes the Sale Rate as a separate column, alongside the purchase price and MRP. This enhancement provides a more comprehensive view of pharmacy sales, allowing hospitals to track how the Sale Rate is being applied across different transactions.
  • GRN Detailed Report: In this report, which details all products purchased by the pharmacy, the Sale Rate is now displayed alongside the purchase price and MRP. This update ensures that the adjusted selling price is clearly visible during inventory review.
  • Current Stock Value Report: The Sale Rate has also been added to this report, which shows the current stock levels and values. This addition helps in evaluating the financial implications of the inventory, giving insight into the pricing strategies being implemented. 
✅ Conclusion: Enhancing Charitable Hospital Operations with Differential MRP

The recent updates to the Differential MRP, now known as the Sale Rate, are part of our ongoing efforts to support charitable hospitals in their mission to provide affordable healthcare. By renaming this feature and integrating it more deeply into our reporting tools, we ensure that our users can more effectively manage their pricing strategies. These enhancements help maintain the balance between affordability for patients and financial sustainability for the hospital.

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💼 The Challenge: Streamlining Pricing Strategies in Charitable Hospitals

In charitable hospitals, setting the right price for medications and supplies is crucial for balancing patient affordability with the institution's financial sustainability. Hospitals often need to offer medications at prices lower than the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) but still above the purchase cost to maintain their operations. This challenge is especially significant in managing pharmacy sales, where maintaining a delicate balance between cost-effectiveness and revenue generation is essential.

🛠️The Solution: Introducing the Sale Rate Calculator

To address this pricing challenge, we have introduced a new feature within the Goods Received Note (GRN) screen: the Sale Rate Calculator. This tool is designed to simplify the process of determining the optimal sale price for products, ensuring that your pricing strategy is both fair and financially sustainable.

📊 Understanding the Sale Rate Feature

When a product is added to the GRN screen, three key pricing parameters are typically involved:

  • Purchase Price: The cost at which the product is acquired from the supplier.
  • MRP (Maximum Retail Price): The highest price at which the product can be sold to patients.
  • Sale Rate: A flexible pricing option that allows hospitals to sell the product at a price between the purchase price and MRP.
🔢 How the Sale Rate Calculator Works

With the new Sale Rate Calculator feature, calculating the sale price has never been easier. If the Sale Rate option is enabled for a product, the Sale Rate field will automatically appear on the GRN screen when the product is selected. Here's how the Sale Rate Calculator enhances the process:

Step 1: Automatic Display: As soon as you add a product to the GRN screen, the Sale Rate field will be displayed alongside the Purchase Price and MRP.
Step 2: Accessing the Calculator: Next to the Sale Rate field, you’ll find a calculator icon. Clicking on this icon will open the Sale Rate Calculator.
Step 3: Choosing Calculation Basis: The calculator will prompt you to choose whether to base your calculation on the Purchase Price or MRP.
Step 4: Entering Margin Percentage: You can then enter the desired margin percentage.
Step 5: Automatic Calculation: The calculator will automatically compute the Sale Rate based on your input.

🧮 Example Scenarios: Sale Rate Calculation

To clarify how this feature works, let’s walk through a couple of examples:

  • Example 1: If you set the Purchase Price at ₹100 and the MRP at ₹200, and you enter a margin percentage of 50% based on the Purchase Price, the Sale Rate will be calculated as ₹150.
  • Example 2: Alternatively, if you base your calculation on the MRP and enter a 50% margin, the Sale Rate will be calculated as ₹100, reflecting the discount off the MRP.
This tool allows you to adjust prices dynamically, ensuring they align with your hospital’s pricing strategy and charitable objectives.

⭐Benefits of the Sale Rate Calculator

The Sale Rate Calculator offers several key advantages:

  • Efficiency: Quickly calculates optimal sale prices, saving time in the pricing process.
  • Flexibility: Allows for easy adjustments to meet your hospital’s specific pricing needs.
  • Transparency: Provides clear visibility into how sale prices are determined, supporting better financial management.
🎯 Conclusion: Elevating Your Hospital's Pricing Strategy

The Sale Rate Calculator is a valuable addition to our GRN screen, empowering charitable hospitals to manage their pricing strategies with greater precision and ease. By automating and simplifying the calculation of sale rates, this feature helps hospitals maintain the crucial balance between patient affordability and financial health.

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In the fast-paced world of healthcare, effective and timely communication with patients is not just important—it's essential. Whether it’s providing updates, reminders, or delivering critical test results, ensuring that patients receive accurate information promptly can significantly impact their healthcare experience. To meet this need, we are thrilled to introduce a groundbreaking update to our platform that will revolutionize your dispatch process: automated notifications via Email, SMS, and WhatsApp. This innovation is designed to streamline your operations, reduce Turnaround Time (TAT), and enhance overall efficiency in your lab or healthcare practice.

The Importance of Timely Communication in Healthcare

Healthcare is an industry where timing is everything. Delays in communication can lead to patient anxiety, treatment delays, and even medical complications. Traditionally, the process of dispatching investigation reports has been labor-intensive, requiring manual intervention at multiple stages. This manual process can lead to bottlenecks, increasing TAT and reducing the overall efficiency of your lab or practice.

Our new automation options are here to address these challenges. By automating the dispatch of investigation reports, we ensure that your patients receive their results promptly, without any manual delays. This not only improves patient satisfaction but also frees up your staff to focus on more critical tasks, ultimately enhancing the quality of care you provide.

Introducing New Automation Options

We are excited to unveil two powerful automation features integrated into the Investigation Master module. These options are specifically designed to streamline the dispatch process, making it more efficient and less prone to human error. Let’s explore how these automation tools can transform your workflow:

1. Auto Email on Approval:

The first of our new automation features is the Auto Email on Approval option. Once a pathologist verifies and approves an investigation report, the system automatically sends a PDF copy of the report directly to the patient’s email address. This feature eliminates the need for manual email dispatch, ensuring that patients receive their reports as soon as they are ready. The Auto Email feature is particularly useful for practices that handle a high volume of investigations daily, where manual emailing would otherwise be a time-consuming task.

2. Auto SMS on Approval:

The Auto SMS on Approval option is another powerful tool that enhances communication with your patients. Upon approval of the investigation report, the system instantly sends an SMS notification to the patient. This message includes a secure link to the report, allowing patients to access their results quickly and conveniently from their mobile devices. This feature is especially beneficial for patients who may not have immediate access to email but rely heavily on SMS for communication.

3. Auto WhatsApp on Approval:

In today’s digital age, WhatsApp has become a primary communication tool for many people. Recognizing this trend, we have introduced the Auto WhatsApp on Approval feature. Once the pathologist approves the report, the system automatically sends the investigation report directly to the patient’s WhatsApp. This instant communication channel ensures that your patients receive their results in a manner that is both convenient and familiar to them. WhatsApp notifications are highly effective in reaching patients promptly, making this feature a valuable addition to your dispatch process.

Flexibility and Control in Communication

One of the key advantages of our new automation options is the flexibility they offer. These features can be configured to suit the specific needs of your lab or practice. You have the option to apply these automation settings to specific types of investigations or to all tests processed in your lab. This level of customization allows you to maintain control over your communication processes while leveraging the power of automation.

Whether you choose to implement these features across the board or only for particular investigations, the goal remains the same: to reduce TAT, improve operational efficiency, and enhance patient satisfaction by ensuring timely delivery of results.

Conclusion

The integration of Auto Email, SMS, and WhatsApp notifications into your dispatch process is nothing short of a game-changer for laboratories and healthcare practices. By embracing automation, you not only ensure that your patients receive their reports promptly and efficiently but also significantly reduce the workload on your staff, allowing them to focus on delivering exceptional patient care.

In an industry where time is of the essence, these automation tools provide a competitive edge, enabling you to offer a superior level of service that meets the demands of modern healthcare. We invite you to explore these new features and see firsthand how they can transform your dispatch process.

At MocDoc, we are committed to providing you with the tools you need to succeed in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape. Your feedback is crucial to us, and we look forward to hearing how these new automation options have enhanced your practice. Thank you for choosing MocDoc as your trusted partner in healthcare innovation.

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Appointment management is a critical aspect of hospital operations, directly impacting patient satisfaction and resource utilization. Traditional systems often struggle with inefficiencies, leading to double bookings, long wait times, and administrative burdens. MocDoc addresses these challenges with advanced appointment views: Doctor View, Hospital View, and Combo View, streamlining the process for both patients and hospital staff.

Challenges in Appointment Management🚩

Double Bookings and Scheduling Conflicts:🔄

Without a unified view, it's easy for front office staff to accidentally double-book appointments or overlook conflicts in a doctor's schedule.

Resource Utilization📊

Inefficient appointment scheduling can lead to underutilized resources, such as empty slots in doctors’ schedules or overburdened time slots leading to patient wait times.

Coordination Across Multiple Locations🌍

Hospitals with multiple branches or departments struggle to manage appointments across different locations, leading to confusion and inefficiency.

Administrative Burden🗂️

Manually coordinating appointments requires significant effort from the front office staff, diverting their focus from patient care and other essential tasks.

MocDoc's Solution: Advanced Appointment Views🔧

MocDoc's appointment management system offers three distinct views to tackle these challenges effectively: Doctor View, Hospital View, and Combo View.

Doctor View Overview👨⚕️

This view allows the front office user to focus on a single doctor's calendar. It displays all appointments for a specific doctor in a streamlined interface.

Challenges Addressed

Scheduling Conflicts: By focusing on one doctor’s schedule, the risk of double booking is minimized.

Resource Utilization: Doctors can manage their time efficiently, ensuring no slots are left unused.

Benefits:

Enhanced Focus: Front office staff can provide better service by concentrating on one doctor’s availability.

Simplified Management: Easier to manage cancellations, rescheduling, and confirmations for individual doctors.

Hospital View Overview🏢

This comprehensive view displays appointments for all doctors within the hospital on a single screen. It provides an overview of the entire hospital’s schedule, aiding in better coordination

Challenges Addressed:

Coordination: Streamlines the management of appointments across various departments and doctors. 

Efficiency: Reduces the risk of overlapping appointments and optimizes the overall schedule. 

Benefits: 

Holistic Management: Administrators can see the big picture and make informed decisions about resource allocation.

Improved Patient Flow: Helps in balancing patient load among doctors, reducing wait times and enhancing patient experience.

Combo View Overview🧳

This view enables booking appointments for a single doctor across multiple locations. It’s particularly useful for doctors who work in different branches or departments.

Challenges Addressed: 

Multiple Locations: Ensures accurate scheduling for doctors operating in various locations, eliminating confusion and errors. 

Resource Allocation: Allows for optimal use of a doctor’s time across different sites. 

Benefits: 

Flexibility: Provides patients with more options for booking appointments, increasing accessibility.

Streamlined Operations: Simplifies the front office workload by consolidating scheduling efforts for multi-location doctors.

How MocDoc Enhances Appointment Management🚀

Real-Time Updates⏰

All views are updated in real-time, ensuring the latest information is always available for the front office staff.

User-Friendly Interface🖥️

MocDoc’s intuitive interface makes it easy for staff to manage appointments without extensive training.

Automated Notifications📱

Automated SMS notifications for confirmations, cancellations, and reminders reduce administrative tasks and improve patient communication.

Integrated System🔗

Seamlessly integrates with other hospital management modules, ensuring a cohesive operational workflow.

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Efficient appointment management is crucial for hospital operations, directly influencing patient satisfaction and resource utilization. MocDoc’s advanced appointment views – Doctor View, Hospital View, and Combo View – address the common challenges faced by traditional systems, providing a streamlined, efficient, and flexible solution. By leveraging MocDoc’s appointment management features, hospitals can ensure better coordination, reduce administrative burdens, and enhance overall patient care.

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In an era where digitalization is reshaping the healthcare industry, the importance of safeguarding patient data cannot be overstated. With the increasing reliance on electronic health records (EHRs) and digital communication, ensuring that sensitive patient information remains secure is a top priority for healthcare providers. At MocDoc, we recognize this need and are committed to providing innovative solutions that enhance data security. We are excited to introduce our latest feature: Mobile Masking—a powerful tool designed to protect patient contact information while maintaining the flexibility needed for effective communication.

The Importance of Mobile Masking in Healthcare

Healthcare institutions handle vast amounts of sensitive patient data daily, including contact details, medical histories, and treatment information. While this data is essential for delivering quality care, it also represents a significant privacy risk if not properly protected. Unauthorized access to patient contact information can lead to data breaches, misuse of personal data, and erosion of patient trust. Mobile Masking addresses these concerns by offering an added layer of security, ensuring that patient mobile numbers are only accessible to authorized personnel when absolutely necessary.

Why Mobile Masking?

The primary goal of Mobile Masking is to prevent unauthorized access to patient contact information, thereby reducing the risk of data breaches or misuse. By automatically masking mobile numbers in patient records, we help healthcare providers maintain confidentiality and protect their patients' privacy. Only authorized users can unmask and view these numbers, and even then, only when it is essential for patient care. This approach balances the need for efficient communication with the imperative of protecting sensitive data.

How Mobile Masking Works: Seamless Integration with Enhanced Security

Mobile Masking is seamlessly integrated into the MocDoc platform, making it easy for users to protect patient data without disrupting their workflow. Here’s how it works:

1. Controlled Access to Patient Contact Information

When a healthcare provider or administrative staff member accesses a patient’s record, the mobile number will be masked by default. This means that only a portion of the number is visible, preventing unauthorized users from viewing the full contact details. However, if the user needs to contact the patient directly—for example, to confirm an appointment or discuss treatment options—they can unmask the number. This action is quick and straightforward, ensuring that communication is not hindered while still prioritizing privacy.

2. Transparency and Accountability: Keeping Data Access in Check

To ensure that Mobile Masking is used responsibly, we’ve implemented robust transparency and accountability measures. Every time a user unmasks a patient’s mobile number, the system logs this action and records the user’s identity. These logs are then compiled into a comprehensive report that is accessible to hospital administrators. This report provides a clear overview of who has accessed patient contact information, helping to maintain accountability and detect any potential misuse.

3. Proactive Alerts: Safeguarding Against Unauthorized Access

While the primary function of Mobile Masking is to protect patient data, we’ve taken it a step further by introducing proactive alerts. These alerts are designed to detect unusual or potentially unauthorized access patterns. For instance, if a user unmasks an unusually high number of patient mobile numbers in a single day, an automated SMS notification is sent to the hospital owner or designated administrator. This prompt alert allows for immediate investigation and action, helping to prevent data breaches before they occur.

The Benefits of Mobile Masking: A Crucial Step Towards Enhanced Data Security

Mobile Masking offers numerous benefits that collectively contribute to a more secure and efficient healthcare environment:

  • Enhanced Data Protection: By masking patient mobile numbers, we reduce the risk of unauthorized access and protect against potential data breaches.
  • Controlled Access: Only authorized users can unmask mobile numbers, ensuring that sensitive information is accessed only when necessary.
  • Accountability: The comprehensive report of unmasking activities provides clear visibility into who is accessing patient data, promoting responsible usage.
  • Proactive Monitoring: Automated alerts ensure that unusual access patterns are quickly identified and addressed, further safeguarding patient information.
Conclusion: Taking Patient Data Security to the Next Level

In today’s digital healthcare landscape, protecting patient data is more critical than ever. Mobile Masking is a vital tool that helps healthcare providers balance the need for effective communication with the imperative of safeguarding patient privacy. By controlling access to contact information, promoting transparency, and enabling proactive monitoring, Mobile Masking enhances the overall security of your healthcare facility.

Enable Mobile Masking today and be part of the movement towards a more secure healthcare future.

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