Do the appointment and registration in the hospital mean the same thing?

yes.

Appointment registration is a convenient medical service in recent years, which aims to shorten the process of seeing a doctor and save patients' time. This kind of appointment registration is mostly carried out through the telephone or network provided by medical institutions, which is basically free or only charges a small handling fee. Because the appointment registration needs to register the patient's information in advance, and it can reduce the pain of waiting in line at the hospital registration window, it is also conducive to improving the medical environment and promoting the implementation of the "real-name registration system" to a certain extent, which has been affirmed and welcomed by many patients.

The inclusion of hospital number sources in unified appointment has several positive meanings:

1. It is helpful to stimulate the social recognition of private hospitals, eliminate the deep-rooted prejudice in the public, alleviate the idle resources caused by human factors, and improve the embarrassing situation of low consumer demand in private hospitals.

2. Make use of the advantages of the public platform, such as wide radiation range, high social trust and frequent use, to let more people know and be familiar with private hospitals, enrich consumers' choice channels and expand their choice opportunities.

3. Give consumers the basic guarantee to safeguard their rights. A large number of medical frauds exist, and some people are cheated penniless by medical care centers or cottage hospitals. The important reasons are asymmetric information, consumers lack sufficient information sources, and fraudsters exploit loopholes to increase the probability of fraud. If the information is open and transparent, the success rate of fraud will be greatly reduced.

Extended information:

Booking allows consumers to have a more accurate understanding and grasp of the overall situation and have a clearer judgment when making a choice. For example, we can not only arrange the schedule of seeing a doctor reasonably, but also make the most appropriate choice according to the actual situation, so that consumers can reduce the cost of running around blindly and avoid the risk loss faced by information asymmetry. Comprehensive, balanced, open and transparent information release and channel selection can solve the problem of "registration difficulty" when strengthening the effectiveness of supervision, which is a real convenience move and worth emulating and popularizing.

in order to standardize and promote the appointment registration service, the Ministry of health recently published the "opinions on implementing the appointment registration service in public hospitals (draft for comments)" on its official website, demanding that while promoting the appointment registration work in hospitals, we should improve our understanding of the appointment registration service, strengthen the management of the appointment registration service, and conscientiously do the relevant organizational work. Adhering to the principle of facilitating people's medical treatment and improving hospital service level, through close and friendly cooperation with the Maternal and Child Health Hospital, the online appointment registration system was successfully tailored for them. A variety of booking channels, such as mobile Internet access, SMS, self-service booking machine and hotline, are being further developed. Patients can choose to complete the booking operation online according to their own habits.

Reference: People's Health Network-Expecting the number source of social hospitals to be included in the unified appointment to alleviate the "registration difficulty"

Reference: People's Health Network-Appointment registration cannot become online queuing

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia.