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Stop paying staff to re-type handwriting

ISIsabela Schroeder
Growth Marketer · · 4 min read

The hidden hourly cost of paper intake — and the three steps that take it out of your morning routine.

Re-keying a paper intake form takes a coordinator four to seven minutes, and that is before the phone calls to decipher a date of birth or an insurance ID written in a hurry. Across a busy week, that is hours of paid time spent transcribing instead of helping patients.

The fix is not a faster typist. It is removing the transcription step entirely. When a patient types their own answers, the data arrives clean and legible, and your staff move straight to verifying coverage instead of guessing at handwriting.

Three steps get you there: send us your current forms, share the patient link by text or email, and download the completed PDF. The morning re-typing pile simply stops appearing.

See your own forms, digital.

Send us your intake PDFs and we'll have your branded portal live, usually in under 48 hours.

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