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Enhancing Pharmacy Operations with MocDoc’s Stock Dispenser Module 

Published by: Mohammed Siddiq

In large healthcare institutions like medical colleges and hospitals, managing pharmacy transactions across various counters can be complex and labor-intensive. MocDoc’s Stock Dispenser Module is designed to simplify and streamline this process, improving accuracy, efficiency, and accountability in pharmacy operations.

Understanding the Stock Dispenser Workflow

In many hospitals and pharmacies, operations are distributed across multiple counters:

  • Billing Counter: Where the pharmacy bill is generated.
  • Cash Collection Counter: Where payments are collected for cash transactions.
  • Dispense Counter: Where patients receive their medications after providing a copy of the paid bill.
With the Stock Dispenser Module, MocDoc automates and optimizes this entire workflow, enhancing operational efficiency.

How MocDoc’s Stock Dispenser Module Works

  1. Bill Generation The pharmacy bill is generated at the billing counter. Whether the payment is on credit or cash, the billing section registers the transaction and makes it accessible to the dispensing team.
  2. Payment Collection For cash transactions, patients proceed to the cash collection counter, where payment is confirmed. Afterwards, they take their paid bill to the dispensing counter to collect their medications.
  3. Automated Stock Deduction Upon bill generation, the system automatically deducts the required stock quantity. This ensures accurate, up-to-date inventory levels, reducing the chances of stock discrepancies.
  4. Dispense Process At the dispense counter, staff can view all generated bills on the Manage Dispense Screen. When the patient presents the bill, pharmacy staff confirm the transaction by clicking “Dispense Stock,” officially completing the process.
  5. Reverting Stock for Uncollected Orders If a patient does not collect their medication or fails to make a payment, the staff can mark the order as “Not Dispensed.” The system then automatically cancels the bill and returns the stock, ensuring inventory accuracy and minimizing waste.
Key Benefits of the Stock Dispenser Module

  1. Improved Operational Efficiency By streamlining each step from billing to dispensing, the Stock Dispenser Module minimizes waiting times and optimizes counter operations.
  2. Enhanced Inventory Control Automatic stock deduction and reversal keep inventory levels accurate, improving stock management and planning.
  3. Reduced Manual Workload Pharmacy staff can focus on patient service as the module automates tasks like stock management, order tracking, and cancellation of uncollected orders.
  4. Improved Cash Flow Management For organizations providing medications on credit, the module tracks bill status across counters, making it easier to manage payments and control outstanding dues.
  5. Error Reduction and Accountability By automating stock handling and providing real-time status updates, the module reduces manual errors and enhances accountability.
  6. Enhanced Patient Experience With reduced wait times and faster processing, patients experience smoother interactions and timely access to their medications.

Addressing Key Challenges in Medication Dispensing

MocDoc’s Stock Dispenser Module directly addresses common challenges faced by large healthcare institutions:

  • Inventory Management: Automatic updates prevent stockouts and ensure availability.
  • Process Efficiency: Streamlines workflow across counters, minimizing delays in medication dispensing.
  • Payment Verification: The option to cancel orders and revert stock for uncollected medicines ensures cash flow accuracy and record integrity.
Conclusion

The Stock Dispenser Module from MocDoc brings a new level of efficiency and precision to pharmacy operations in large medical setups. By integrating billing, payment, and dispensing processes into a seamless workflow, MocDoc enables healthcare providers to focus on patient care without being slowed down by administrative complexities.

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Introduction

In fast-paced hospital environments, efficiently managing patient inquiries and converting them into finalized treatments or services is essential. Hospitals often face challenges with handling patient inquiries, particularly when it comes to generating reliable cost estimates and instantly converting these estimates into bills if the patient decides to proceed with the service. MocDoc’s new Estimate-to-OP Bill Conversion feature addresses these needs, offering an instant solution to convert patient estimates into outpatient (OP) bills, streamlining the patient journey from inquiry to treatment.

Challenges in Managing Patient Inquiries and Billing

Hospitals frequently encounter patients who seek information on available treatments or services and their estimated costs. The typical workflow of manually handling estimates and later converting them into bills can be time-consuming and prone to errors. This manual process can result in challenges such as:

  1. Time Consumption: Manually re-entering patient information from estimates into the billing system consumes valuable time, affecting patient wait times and front-office efficiency.
  2. Errors in Data Entry: Re-entering patient and service details can lead to errors, which may result in billing inaccuracies and impact patient satisfaction.
  3. Missed Opportunities: Patients who receive an estimate may not always follow up immediately, leading to challenges in tracking their inquiries and ensuring that they receive proper guidance when they return for services.
  4. Inefficiency in Resource Allocation: Handling separate processes for estimates and billing can reduce overall efficiency and increase the workload for front-office staff.
Introducing the Estimate-to-OP Bill Conversion Feature To address these challenges, MocDoc has introduced the Estimate-to-OP Bill Conversion feature, designed to simplify and streamline patient billing. This feature allows hospitals to seamlessly convert an estimate into an OP bill whenever a patient decides to proceed with a service.

How the Feature Works

 The Estimate-to-OP Bill Conversion feature provides hospitals with a seamless process:

  1. Creating an Estimate The front-office staff can generate an estimate by entering either a registered patient’s details or a new patient’s name and mobile number. They can add the specific services the patient has inquired about and instantly generate an estimate, which can be printed and handed to the patient.
  2. Converting the Estimate into an OP Bill When a patient opts to proceed with the service, staff can navigate to the Manage Estimate List screen, where all created estimates are listed. Staff can simply click on the “Convert to OP Bill” option to convert the estimate into a bill. This redirects to the OP Quick Billing screen, with all pre-filled patient and service details from the estimate, reducing time spent on data entry.
  3. Finalizing the OP Bill On the billing screen, the front-office staff only need to select the consultant’s name, payment type, and mode of payment before generating the OP bill. This quick, streamlined process enhances both patient satisfaction and front-office productivity.
Advantages for Hospitals

The Estimate-to-OP Bill Conversion feature offers several benefits for hospitals:

  • Increased Efficiency: The feature reduces manual data entry, allowing staff to generate bills instantly and focus more on patient care.
  • Accuracy in Billing: By auto-filling the billing screen with data from the estimate, this feature minimizes the risk of errors, leading to accurate bills.
  • Enhanced Patient Experience: Patients receive a seamless experience from inquiry to treatment, helping to build trust and satisfaction.
  • Effective Resource Utilization: With a more streamlined process, hospitals can manage their resources effectively, ensuring that front-office staff can handle more patients efficiently.
  • Improved Financial Tracking: By converting estimates into bills with ease, hospitals can better monitor patient conversions, enhancing revenue opportunities.
Conclusion

MocDoc’s Estimate-to-OP Bill Conversion feature empowers hospitals to handle patient inquiries, generate accurate estimates, and quickly convert these into OP bills. This streamlined approach to patient billing not only enhances operational efficiency but also elevates the patient experience, making it a valuable addition to any healthcare facility.

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In healthcare, accurate patient registration is essential to streamline services and prevent administrative confusion. MocDoc’s latest Duplicate Check Feature in the Patient Registration screen adds an additional layer of validation, making it even easier for front-office staff to manage records effectively and avoid duplicate entries.

The Existing Duplicate Check Process

Previously, MocDoc’s Patient Registration screen allowed front-office staff to identify duplicate entries by displaying all patient records associated with an entered mobile number. This feature was particularly useful for families who share a single contact number. However, without matching additional details like patient name, distinguishing between individuals was challenging, especially in large families where multiple family members may share the same mobile number.

What’s New: Enhanced Name-Based Duplicate Check

The new feature goes beyond mobile-number validation. Now, when front-office staff enter a mobile number that matches multiple records, they proceed to add patient details such as name, age, and gender. Upon clicking Submit, MocDoc automatically checks the entered name alongside the mobile number against existing records. If there’s a match, an alert notifies the user with a list of patients that have the same name and mobile number, prompting them to confirm whether they want to proceed with a new registration.

This added validation ensures that users have a second opportunity to verify the entry, significantly reducing the chances of duplicating a patient’s record.

Organized Display of Existing Records

Another improvement is the display order of existing patient records. Previously, these records appeared randomly on the screen, which made it difficult for staff to quickly identify the most recent entries. With this update, records now appear in descending order, meaning the latest registration appears at the top, making it easier for users to locate the most recent records quickly.

How the Enhanced Duplicate Check Feature Benefits Your Practice

  1. Increased Accuracy: By cross-referencing both name and mobile number, the feature minimizes duplicate entries and ensures data integrity.
  2. Efficient Workflow: Front-office staff can save time by avoiding accidental duplicate entries, reducing the need for corrections later.
  3. Improved Record Management: Displaying patient records in descending order makes it faster for staff to identify the correct patient, especially when dealing with multiple family members.
  4. Enhanced Patient Experience: Patients benefit from a streamlined registration process that reduces delays and ensures their data is accurate.
Conclusion

MocDoc’s Enhanced Duplicate Check Feature in the Patient Registration screen exemplifies our commitment to efficient and accurate healthcare administration. By combining name-based duplicate checks with an organized record display, this feature empowers front-office staff to manage registrations confidently, avoiding errors and ensuring a smooth experience for both staff and patients.

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Laboratories are critical to healthcare, handling hundreds of investigations daily. However, managing such a high volume of investigations presents various challenges, particularly in terms of tracking investigation statuses, which can lead to inefficiencies, communication gaps, and delays in diagnosis.

Common Challenges in Laboratory Management:

  1. Difficulty in Tracking Investigation Progress: Laboratories often struggle with tracking the status of investigations in real-time. Without a comprehensive status screen, knowing which tests are in progress, completed, or pending is difficult, leading to delays.
  2. Departmental Overload: Multiple departments such as biochemistry, hematology, and pathology handle investigations, and without an organized system, lab managers may find it hard to monitor each department’s workload.
  3. Test-by-Test Monitoring: Keeping track of investigations on an individual test basis is another challenge. Often, labs find it difficult to manage the workflow for every test performed, leading to potential delays in patient results.
  4. Fragmented Communication: When test statuses are scattered across different platforms or not easily accessible, communication between departments, doctors, and patients breaks down, causing operational inefficiencies.
  5. Handling B2B and B2C Patients: In hospitals dealing with B2B clients (e.g., corporate health packages), managing and keeping a separate tab for these patients further complicates the process of tracking investigation statuses.

MocDoc’s Investigation Status Feature: A Comprehensive Solution

To address these pressing challenges, MocDoc’s Investigation Status Screen offers a structured, easy-to-navigate system that allows laboratories to track investigations efficiently. This feature is divided into three screens—Patient-wise Status, Department-wise Status, and Test-wise Status—each offering unique insights to help labs streamline their workflow.

1. Patient-wise Status Screen

The Patient-wise Status Screen offers a holistic view of each patient's investigations, showing:

  • Patient Information: Serial number, patient ID, and referral doctor details make identifying cases easier.
  • Investigation Status Columns: Categories like Billed, Paid, Processing, Completed, and more provide real-time updates on each investigation.
In this screen, lab staff can easily click on any investigation status (e.g., processing) and see the tests associated with that status. For instance, if a patient has five tests, and three are completed while two are processing, the system will show a “Partially Completed” status, making follow-ups simple and intuitive. This helps labs maintain a real-time grasp on the investigation process.

2. Department-wise Status Screen

In many labs, departments operate semi-independently, leading to unbalanced workloads. The Department-wise Status Screen solves this by:

  • Displaying department columns like Biochemistry, Hematology, and Pathology.
  • Offering color-coded statuses: Green for completed investigations, Yellow for partially completed, Red for pending investigations.
This helps department heads and managers see where bottlenecks are happening and enables them to allocate resources more efficiently.

3. Test-wise Status Screen

When tracking the progress of specific tests, the Test-wise Status Screen comes into play. It shows the investigation statuses of tests across the board, independent of the patient or department. This is useful for monitoring high-volume tests and ensuring they don’t get stuck in any stage of the workflow.

By categorizing each test as Billed, Paid, Processing, etc., the system offers an efficient way to manage multiple tests in parallel, ensuring timely results and more consistent performance.

Key Benefits of MocDoc’s Investigation Status Feature:

  1. Improved Operational Efficiency: Whether through patient-wise, department-wise, or test-wise status tracking, the status screen enables labs to keep an eye on investigations at all stages, thus reducing delays and enhancing operational efficiency.
  2. Real-Time Tracking: The ability to click on a specific status, view investigation details, and understand where delays might occur ensures that staff can address bottlenecks in real time.
  3. Color-coded Alerts: The color-coded system in the department-wise screen (green, yellow, red) gives immediate insight into the status of each department, aiding quick decision-making.
  4. B2B Compatibility: For labs handling corporate clients, MocDoc allows the provider column to display the corporate name. This makes tracking investigations for B2B patients simpler and more organized.
  5. Transparency and Communication: The detailed statuses enhance transparency and streamline communication between the lab and physicians, helping doctors provide faster and more accurate diagnoses.
Conclusion:

Laboratory management can often be a logistical nightmare without the proper tools to keep track of investigations. Delays in diagnostics and communication gaps can hinder the entire healthcare process. MocDoc’s Investigation Status Feature directly addresses these challenges by providing real-time tracking of investigations at patient, department, and test levels. The system’s ability to streamline tracking across multiple dimensions not only enhances the lab’s performance but also ensures better healthcare outcomes by ensuring tests are processed efficiently and accurately.

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Managing service rooms in busy hospitals is no easy task. From ensuring proper access control for staff to accurately mapping services within each room, the process often poses significant challenges. Recognizing these pain points, MocDoc has introduced two powerful enhancements to its Service/Procedure Management Module to simplify workflows and boost operational efficiency.

1. Room Restriction for Users

Challenge: Previously, all users in the service management screen had access to every service room in the hospital, regardless of their role or responsibilities. Although a drop-down filter was available to narrow down room selection, it still allowed users to view and interact with unrelated rooms, potentially leading to confusion or inefficiency.

Solution: To address this, we’ve introduced the Allowed Service Rooms/Room Restriction feature while creating a user profile. This feature enables administrators to define specific room access for individual users based on their roles.

How It Works:

  • Assign specific service rooms to each user during their profile setup.
  • For example, an X-ray technician can be restricted to access only the X-ray room.
  • When this user logs in, the service management screen will automatically display only the X-ray room and the relevant orders or patient information.
Benefits:

  • Eliminates the need for users to select their room manually via drop-down filters.
  • Prevents unauthorized or irrelevant access to other rooms, ensuring confidentiality and role-based efficiency.
  • Simplifies the user interface for staff, enhancing focus and productivity.
2. Department-Based Service Mapping in Room Creation

Challenge: Previously, users had to manually add each service being performed in a room, which was time-consuming and error-prone, especially in departments with extensive service lists.

Solution: To streamline the process, we’ve added a new Department field in the room creation screen. By selecting a department, all services associated with that department are automatically included in the room.

How It Works:

  • When creating or editing a room, the user selects the department (e.g., Radiology, Physiotherapy).
  • All services linked to the chosen department are auto-populated in the service list.
  • Users can remove any unnecessary services that do not apply to the room before finalizing.
Benefits:

  • Reduces manual entry, saving significant time during room setup.
  • Ensures accurate mapping of services to rooms, minimizing human error.
  • Enhances flexibility by allowing users to customize service lists as needed.
Key Impact of These Enhancements

These updates bring meaningful improvements to the Service/Procedure Management Module, benefiting healthcare facilities in several ways:

  1. Improved Workflow Efficiency: Staff can focus solely on their designated responsibilities without distractions from irrelevant information. Administrators save time during room setup and user creation processes.
  2. Enhanced User Experience: Simplified service management screens reduce cognitive load for staff, ensuring faster navigation and task completion.
  3. Greater Control and Security: Role-based access ensures sensitive information is visible only to authorized personnel, improving compliance and data protection.
  4. Operational Accuracy: Automated service mapping eliminates errors and ensures rooms are configured correctly for their intended use.
Conclusion

The introduction of room restriction for users and department-based service mapping marks a significant step forward in making MocDoc's Service/Procedure Management Module more intuitive and efficient. These enhancements reflect our commitment to addressing real-world challenges faced by healthcare providers, enabling them to focus more on patient care and less on administrative complexities.

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