Top 10 Things to Know About the Advance Entry Health Screening Kiosk

The patient and visitor check-in process is tedious for your healthcare staff as well as the patient. It can be time-consuming and repetitive. Here is where health kiosks come in. They are electronic devices that help patients, visitors, and employees check themselves with facial recognition technology. These devices are usually placed at the front office or waiting room and take care of all preliminary tasks before the appointment to minimize patient waiting time.

Advanced Entry’s health screening kiosk for nursing homes is made with cutting-edge technology and an innovative design that monitors visitors and employees entering and leaving the facility. You can secure your facility and be at the top of your day-to-day operations.

Let’s see how Advanced Entry’s health screening kiosk helps bring security and accessibility to nursing homes.

Advance Entry Health Screening Kiosk Features

1.     Facial Recognition

Upon arrival, the kiosk’s facial recognition feature will capture the visitor’s photo, temperature, name, contact information, and more to complete registration, speed up, and simplify the check-in process. Open API can also integrate the facial recognition feature with your facility’s time and attendance.

2.     Touch less Response

Using a paper log to fill in the information or check attendance increases the risks of infection. Health kiosks significantly reduce these risks and aid disease prevention and control by enabling touch less response. From registration to sign-out, the whole process gathers responses through a simple nod or shake of the head.

3.     Badge Registration

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, many nursing homes have tightened visitation to stop the spread of infections and diseases. Although the concern is valid, appropriate measures should be in place to allow safe and secure visitation. Identify all visitors with a printed badge, complete with a photo and time slot. Make them your own by adding your facility's logo.

Advanced Entry’s health kiosk has a badge registration feature. This feature prints out a custom ID badge after registration for each visitor with an allocated time slot, indicating that the visitor has been cleared for entry.

4.     Easier Communication

Health kiosks are not just reserved for visitors' check-in, they can also be used for simplifying communication. For instance, visitors will receive an SMS instantly after registration and also 5 minutes before their session is supposed to end to remind visitors and keep visiting hours coordinated. Moreover, you can also use this feature to communicate among the staff members or broadcast messages to the facility.

5.     Temperature Check

As mentioned above, upon entry, all visitors' and employees’ temperatures will be checked in under 3 seconds, thus, making the overall check-in process fast, reliable, and secure. the facility can set that personal entering with temp above 100 should be denied access.

6.     Optimized Security

Give your residents and their loved one's peace of mind through optimized security features. Advanced Entry’s health kiosk notifies management immediately if any individual is denied access due to conditions set by you. You can also blacklist an unsafe individual and deny entry for future visitations as well.

7.     Advanced Dashboard

The advanced portal dashboard stores and showcases all information regarding visitors and employees, such as temperature Time of check-in and check-out filled questionnaire, contact information, and photo. You can also send alerts, check employee logs, print visitor and patient reports and many more.

8.     Resident Feature

Ensure your residents are safe outside the facility. This feature confirms the residents’ whereabouts when not in the facility. Moreover, you can set different parameters for each check-in and check-out to ensure all safety and health protocols are followed.

9.     Integration

You can connect Advanced Entry’s health kiosk software with your existing systems and automatically sync in data and information without disturbing the workflow.

10.  Customization

You can customize the health kiosk according to your facility’s requirements. For instance, you can enable/disable features and customize the registration process for each user, such as visitor, vendor, staff, doctor, resident, etc. You can customize the questionnaire, alerts, and information requirements for each.

Advanced Entry’s health screening kiosk for nursing homes is perfect for optimizing workflow, reducing wait time, and coordinating communication and visitation hours. Contact them now and book a product demo today!