Impact of Digital Consultation on your Medical Practice – What do you expect here?

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Impact of Digital Consultation on your Medical
Practice What do you expect here?
Social media is no longer the domain of the
young and fit, even seniors are now on the net
and their apps, forming and sharing information
across groups. The impact of this is often seen
in discussions between patients and physicians.
The patient often Google search for their
symptoms and problems, discuss across groups,
join forums, etc. to know more about their
illness.    But are they getting their right
information on their illness? If having to
explain the prognosis and diagnosis based on
their symptoms differ from their Google search
takes up most of your time, you as a physician
would be seeing a lesser amount of patients and
thus a fall in your revenues could affect
the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) process. There
are both disadvantages and advantages to this,
but how can you make the best of such digital
consultation that the impact is positive?   The
older populationpersons 65 years or
oldernumbered 46.2 million in 2014 and
represented 14.5 percent of the U.S. population,
about one in every seven Americans. By 2060,
there will be about 98 million older persons,
more than twice their number in 2014. How will
you deal with that many footfalls? Remote video
consultations between clinicians and patients are
technically possible and increasingly acceptable.
How do these and the introduction of wearable
devices impact your consultation?
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Impact of Digital Consultation on your Medical
Practice What do you expect here?

• Well heres looking at positive impact digital
  consultation can bring and what you can expect
• It helps to bridge the gap between patients and
  clinicians. It provides a change in how patients
  can be monitored
• Better delivery and speed of diagnostic
  information
• Can help deliver high-quality care and on-time
  treatment
• Helps in Promoting self-management of chronic
  diseases
• Broadens the scope to reach out to those living
  in rural areas and others who need distance care
  and monitoring
• Wearable devices help create better intervention
  plans in conjunction with clinicians
• Costs related to capital, transportation,
  parking, and time away from work are reduced

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Impact of Digital Consultation on your Medical
Practice What do you expect here?

• Reduces the number of in-person visits and
  decreases delays in diagnosis and treatment
  thereby avoids long-term complications and
  hospitalizations. Treatment can be initiated much
  more quickly via a video call or just by sending
  photos of the external condition, rather than
  waiting for an appointment.
• Patient satisfaction is on the anvil when you
  offer convenient, high-quality service without
  additional cost, especially in todays world of
  high deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses
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• The ability to see more patients daily and
  achieve a better work-life balance can be
  realized
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• So just let the positive effects in, instead of
  procrastinating and thinking what the negative
  impact is, after all its patients and their needs
  that come first- once that is satisfied,
  the revenue will walk in automatically. But yes,
  keep in mind the privacy issues of the patients
  when foraying into the digital world- security
  and privacy need to be maintained at all costs!
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