During a visit the physicians look often longer to the screen than to the patient. The patients do not feel heard, are not invited to prepare themselves and do not want to disturb the physician while he or she is doing the documentation. Research makes clear that medical professionals are spending half of their time doing data entry. This can be improved if the possibilities of the Epic EHR are better used. Medical Build does just that: no outside system, but just clever build in Epic.

By introducing pre-visit questionnaires the patients can better prepare for their visit. At the hospital side there are even more benefits: the physician can prepare for this patient, saves registration time and can focus on the patient rather than data entry during the visit. This increases the quality of the outpatient visits. As a bonus, the questionnaires generate discrete data – useful for research and quality (like Value Based Healthcare)