Patient journey
From the moment they hear about you to the moment they're due back.
Most PMS demos walk you through features by department — scheduling, charting, billing, imaging. Useful for the people who use those modules; less useful for the clinic owner deciding whether to buy. This page maps Oralstack to the patient lifecycle instead, so the question stops being “does it have feature X?” and starts being “does the clinic measurably get better at every stage of a visit?”
Tap any stage. Every stage has a fully wired before/after demo — scrub through the linear journey from discovery to recall.
Stage 01 of 7 · Discovery
Where are new patients actually coming from, and what does each cost me?
Patient: A potential patient hears about the clinic — Google search, friend's referral, social, insurance directory.
Clinic: Marketing spend, Google Business profile, referrals from existing patients. The clinic mostly can't measure what's working.
Anchor metric
Cost per acquired patient
Source: Internal estimate based on conversations with Singapore practice managers — validate before quoting publicly.
Without Oralstack
“How did you hear about us?” · handwritten log
- Google?patient was vague
- Friend recommendeddidn't catch which friend
- Carousell ador was it Facebook?
- Walked past—
Survey form on a clipboard · nobody types this into the system
Ad spend · this month
- Google AdsS$480→ ?
- Facebook / IGS$220→ ?
- Carousell promoS$80→ ?
Ad spend is a black box · referrals tracked on paper · no source-to-LTV link
With Oralstack
Recent reviews
- Lim Wei Jian“Calm chairside manner, painless extraction.”responded
- Devi Krishnan“Same-day filling, clear explanation of cost upfront.”queued
- Aaron Teo“Quick scaling visit, friendly desk.”queued
Referrals captured at intake
- Mei Lin Tan · #1042Source: Friend · Devi KrishnanIntake form
- Hafiz Yusof · #1112Source: Google searchIntake form
- Mrs Wong · #1098Source: Carousell adIntake form
Source captured at intake · Google reviews synced · referral templates audit-logged
Where this lives in Oralstack
Demo · focused on discovery
See where new patients actually come from on your clinic.
30-min walkthrough on a real Singapore practice — Google reviews synced, referrer captured at intake, source tied to the patient record from visit one.
How the seven stages compound
Each stage's improvement multiplies into the next.
A booking that lands first-call shapes a pre-visit that's already form-complete, which shapes an arrival that's chair-ready in minutes, which protects the chair time that drives same-day billing. The math doesn't live in any single stage — it lives in the chain.
- Cost per acquired patientS$80–S$200 across mixed channels (estimate)Visible per channel, attributed back to first visit
- 02BookingNo-show rate12–18% across Singapore general practicesBelow 8% with WhatsApp confirmations + 24h reminders
- Same-day-form-complete rate30–50% for paper / PDF intake (estimate)85%+ with WhatsApp-delivered forms and pre-visit nudges
- Arrival → chair time8–15 minutes typicalUnder 5 minutes when intake is pre-completed
- 05ChairCharting + admin overhead per visit10–15 min per visit on form-led PMS (estimate)Under 4 min with case-note parser + tooth-led charting
- Same-day-bill rate60–65% on legacy PMS85%+
- Recall coverage rate40–60% of due patients reached (estimate)85%+ with surfacing 3 weeks ahead and templated outreach
What we'll quote, what we won't
The strongest individually defensible delta is same-day-bill rate — DFI Synergy moved from 60% to 85%+ in the four-week pilot, and the math on that alone is real money for a 3-chair clinic. The other deltas amplify it (faster booking → fewer empty slots, tighter recall → more revisits, shorter chair-cycle → more visits per chair-day) — but the compound number depends on your visit volume and ticket size, not on a generic benchmark. We'd rather instrument it on your clinic than promise a multiple.