ABSTRACT
Many organizations choosing self-rooming models have nice on stage/off stage clinic layouts that make it easy for patients to navigate to an exam room. Organizations that choose self-rooming often rely on the electronic health record system to assign rooms to specific patients and rely on these systems to help communicate between front office and back office staff. Outside of patient self-rooming clinics, a staff member will go into the waiting room, find the patient, and escort that patient eventually to an exam room or patient care room. If patients physically go to a clinic for care, those patients will get roomed eventually into an exam room or patient care room. While most clinics have a staff member escort the patient to a patient care room, some organizations have adopted a patient self-rooming model of care. Patient self-rooming is what it sounds like – the patient moves to the patient care room by themselves.
