A large-scale brace clinic at a children’s rehabilitation center : computer-based administration

Abstract

Our institute operates a brace clinic weekly, where we accept seventy children on average, in collaboration with over twenty brace providers dealing in prostheses, orthoses, seating systems and wheelchairs. In spite of its large number of clients, our brace clinic had been operated without a reservation system until 2015. This “first-in-first-served” operation had been causing a large number of problems. In order to solve the problems, we developed a computer-based administration system for reservation and prescription registry in 2015. With the aid of this system, we were able to accept more children compared with the “first-in-first-served” operation.