Patient Engagement January 16, 2020
New focus group data showed that patients approve of eConsults, saying it improves access to care and convenience.
Patients are widely accepting of the use of eConsults in the primary care setting, citing quicker patient access to specialty care and convenience as the key benefits of the technology, according to a new study published in the Annals of Family Medicine.
eConsults are a popular strategy for connecting disparately located providers to facilitate better consultations. As health IT has worked to enhance patient care, eConsults have emerged to largely to help primary care providers chat with specialty providers during a patient encounter.
The tools, which usually consist of an asynchronous telephone or telehealth connection between the two, help the primary care...
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