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Open Access at Primary Care Partners
"If you want to double your take-home pay, work less hard, and have happier staff and patients, this is the way," says family practitioner Gregg Omura, MD. Since implementing open access scheduling in his practice, along with some other improvements that support it, Omura has increased patient visits by 22%, increased gross revenue by 32%, increased net revenue by 87%, and decreased "no-shows" from about 1.9 per day to 0.75 per day.

Improvement Report: Improving Access to Orthopedic and Cardiology Appointments
Veterans Health Administration (Loma Linda, California, USA) aimed to reduce the waiting time for new appointments in Orthopedics from 200 to 300 days to 30 days and for Cardiology from 42 to 14 days.

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