title: Satellite registration program: a decentralized system to meet customer needs.
abstract: In summary, if you want to meet your patient, physician and ancillary service needs, then consider registration as a necessary transitional activity and then go about making it secondary to the reason the patient came for healthcare service. The complexities of data collection are for us to be concerned with, not the patient! Also, the physicians will appreciate your efforts on behalf of their patients. You, too, can have an effective Satellite Registration Program if you remember that flexibility, creativity and administrative support are essential to success! Good Luck!
authors.affiliation: Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Des Moines.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hutchins
mesh_terms: D000289:Admitting Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D002497:Centralized Hospital Services; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D007484:Iowa