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California hospital adds Galvanon medical kiosk

January 16, 2006

MAITLAND, Fla. - Galvanon announced in a news release that Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has implemented Galvanon's MediKiosk at its new Sue and Bill Gross Women's Pavilion. The kiosk will be used to automate patient registration and create a paperless workflow for breast-care and imaging-center appointments. By using MediKiosk, Hoag Hospital has been able to speed the check-in process for 350 patients daily through a 75 percent reduction in paper forms.

Staff greeters are available to assist patients with check-in on an as-needed basis. Patients also can use MediKiosk to complete medical history forms. When used this way, Galvanon's technology enables the use of adaptive screening, where users are asked to answer additional questions based on previous responses.

Since the initial implementation in October 2005, MediKiosk has dramatically improved the quality of data collected at patient check-in.