Patients arriving for appointments at Academic Allergy and Asthma Center of South Florida typically received a clipboard full of paperwork to fill out, a repetitive and duplicative practice common at most physician practices.
But this past June, the practice became a beta test site for a new patient engagement platform. Now, when patients arrive, they use a tablet computer to complete registration documents—they do little writing, but complete their work by tapping a finger on the tablet to fill in the blanks.
