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Module 16 — Practice Management for Medical Practices

Practice Management for Medical Practices

One record for the diary, the consultation, the invoice and the claim, built for how South African practices actually run.

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THE PRACTICE SPLIT FOUR WAYS

Reception, the chart, billing and the claim each live somewhere different

A practice lives or dies on clean coding and clean claims, but the work that produces them is scattered. The diary is one system, the clinical notes another, billing a third, and the scheme's remittance arrives as a statement someone has to match by hand. Patients expect an SMS or a WhatsApp, not a phone queue, and cash still has to balance at the till at the end of the day.

Claims come back short, and nobody knows why

Without line-by-line remittance matching, a short payment looks the same as a correct one until the debtors book stops making sense.

Missed appointments are planned for by guesswork

No-shows cost a slot every time, and double-booking decisions get made on instinct rather than on the patient's history.

The relationship stops at the consulting-room door

Recalls, screenings and follow-ups are left to chance because nothing keeps the patient engaged between visits.

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Platform from diary to paid claim
Reception, clinical care, billing, claims and collections on one record, with every clinical and billing action auditable.
WHAT IT DOES

What PracIQ does

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The practice diary

Day and week views per practitioner, click-to-book and drag-to-reschedule, with closures and consulting hours shown so nobody books a public holiday by accident. A waiting list offers earlier slots automatically when they open up.

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Clinical record

SOAP or free-text notes that are signed and versioned, vitals flagged against reference ranges, a problem list and allergies checked against every new prescription, and abnormal results pushed to the top of the inbox.

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Billing and claims

Tariff resolved by practitioner, scheme or practice price list, ICD-10 coding on the invoice, claims validated before submission, and remittances matched line by line against what was billed.

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Collections and the till

A configurable reminder ladder, payment plans and statements aged by patient or scheme. One open till per practice, with cash-up checked against float and movements and an approver who isn't the person closing.

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Patient portal and engagement

Online booking and check-in, repeat prescription requests, estimates and payment links sent to the patient's phone, plus reminders, recalls and campaigns by SMS, WhatsApp or email, all gated on recorded consent.

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AI that drafts, never decides

An AI scribe drafts consultation summaries and searches the chart, and every output passes a review gate and needs the practitioner's sign-off before it touches the record. No-show risk is predicted from the patient's history.

GOVERNANCE & STANDARDS

The frameworks this is built against

POPIA

Consent tracked against every patient message

ICD-10

Diagnosis coding on every claim

Scheme Tariffs

Pricing by practitioner, scheme or price list

ISO/IEC 27001

Information Security Management

Signed & Versioned

Every clinical note and billing action auditable

Per-Tenant RLS

Isolation enforced at the database

PART OF THE PLATFORM

Built on the platform CareIQ runs on

PracIQ works on its own for a single room or a multi-site group, with single sign-on and an organisation picker for staff who work across practices. When the practice operates at a hospital that runs CareIQ, the two are bridged, so the hospital and its practices work from one patient, one booking and one record.

PracIQ CareIQ

A theatre request from the practice diary lands with hospital scheduling and opens the patient's pre-admission, and the discharge summary returns to the practice record with the patient's consent.

PracIQ RevenueIQ

The practice's billing lines feed RevenueIQ's healthcare assurance, so pricing and coding problems are raised as findings with the evidence attached.

PracIQ SiteComm

Reminders, recalls and booking conversations go out on the channel the patient uses, and replies land back against the appointment.

WHO USES PRACIQ

Who uses it

Practitioners

One chart with notes, vitals, scripts and results, and an AI scribe that saves the typing without ever writing to the record on its own.

Reception and front office

A single screen for bookings, closures and the waiting list, with the patient's consent status visible before any message goes out.

Practice managers

Cash-up that balances, claims that reconcile, and a debtors book aged by patient and by scheme.

Patients

Booking without a phone call, reminders on WhatsApp, and estimates and payment links on their phone.

GET STARTED

Start with your diary and your claims

PracIQ scales from a single-practitioner room to a multi-site group, with the full clinical and billing core included from the first plan. Your patient list, price list and open accounts come across so the practice runs on real data from day one.

One diary. One chart. One paid claim.

Practice setup

Practitioners, locations, consulting hours, appointment types and price lists configured to how you work.

Data brought across

Patients and open accounts imported, so the debtors book is truthful from the first day.

Patients switched on

Online booking, reminders and the portal live, with consent captured as patients come through.