The Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) has launched the “myCHEM” cell app, permitting sufferers to schedule appointments for MRIs, scans, and mammograms ranging from Wednesday, 7 June.
Throughout a press convention on Monday morning, the CHEM unveiled the app as an answer to streamline the appointment reserving course of, lowering the present reliance on cellphone calls, which might attain as much as 880 each day with ready instances of as much as half-hour in some circumstances.
The app permits sufferers to pick their desired physique space for imaging and select a handy date and time for his or her appointment. Alternatively, customers can add their prescription, and they are going to be contacted to rearrange an appropriate time. The app is offered in 5 languages (Luxembourgish, German, French, English, and Portuguese). The app doesn’t retailer information internally however relatively acts as an interface. As well as, it permits customers to ebook appointments on behalf of another person.
In the course of the presentation, CHEM administration offered insights into the present ready instances for numerous examinations. The ready durations range relying on the particular organ concerned. As of April, the ready time for a coronary heart MRI was roughly 22 days, whereas it reached 52 days for a head MRI. Mammograms had a ready time of two months for screening functions and 4 months for diagnostic evaluations. For scans, the ready interval was lower than one month.
Though efforts have been made to cut back ready instances, the demand for companies has surged over the previous yr, hindering the specified progress. Nevertheless, this doesn’t embody emergencies, that are seen inside 12 hours or three days relying on the kind of accident. Hospitalised sufferers additionally obtain expedited service, with scans usually scheduled inside someday and MRIs inside two days.
