This is a pro tip based on our Using Office 365 Bookings for physician offices webinar. This webinar focused on how a physician’s office in Baton Rouge can use this Office 365 scheduling tool to help manage schedules of internal staff, contract or on-call health professionals, and even outside contacts such as pharmaceutical reps, as well as the ability to provide patients the option to book their own appointments online.
The Booking Page feature is where you design your practice’s web portal for scheduling and when published online enables patients to schedule and manage their own appointment. It has the following settings:
- the capability to design a custom color theme and inclusion of your practice’s logo for branding recognition
- options for setting language and time zone preferences
- scheduling policy time increments - you can set up the intervals for appointment times in increments of 15 minutes to 4 hours; the scheduling policy you set here is the default automatically applied to your services
- minimum lead time - which is how many hours you want in advance to prepare for an appointment. The minimum lead time prevents patients from making an appointment outside of the lead time window. For example, are you able to respond to same day appointments? If not, you should give at least a 24-hour minimum lead time
- maximum lead time – which is how far in advance of the appointment day will you let patients make appointments. The default is 365 days
- your booking page can be shared on your practice's website or embedded onto social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter
Note that if you are using Bookings for internal use only you can restrict booking access to members within your practice with an Office 365 account. This is useful for intra-organization only bookings scenarios.
Another benefit of using the Bookings web portal is that you are using the secure platform of Office 365 as your scheduling tool so that you keep your practice management software safe!
This and a lot more was covered in our Using Office 365 Bookings for physician offices webinar.
If you want to watch the entire webinar, just visit this YouTube of our webinar:
