Digital Recipes and Tools for Patient Weight Loss
Functional Medicine Doctors, Nurse Practitioners, and healthcare practitioners of all verticals: you have a unique opportunity to guide your patients towards successful weight loss, and there’s no time like the present. This summer season presents an ideal time for you to encourage patients to make positive changes. Warm weather creates the perfect excuse for exercise and the light and bright flavors of the summer are a perfect way for patients to incorporate more fruits and vegetables on their plate.
This year, sustainable weight loss guidance for your patients doesn’t look like quick fixes and dated advice. Traditional medicine suggests that patients should be prescribed medication to address the issues associated with their weight gain, rather than address the lifestyle choices and contributing conditions that have caused the weight gain.
That’s why using an approach that takes into consideration all aspects of the patient’s health, rather than a traditional one-size-fits-all approach, is the best bet. By adopting this perspective, you can address the root cause of your patient’s issues and guide them towards viable weight loss strategies. In this article, we’ll discuss a more effective way to help your patients lose weight that will allow you to automatically . . .
- Care for patients even when you’re not physically present
- Track Patient Progress
- Automatically Educate Your Patients
- Promote Patient Compliance
Emphasizing a Balanced Diet and Exercise Program
In order for patients to successfully lose weight, they need proper lifestyle education, guidance from you – their practitioner, and tools to track patient progress. It’s no secret that healthy eating is incredibly important to overall health and losing weight. By incorporating evidence-based dietary recommendations, you can empower your patients to make informed choices that support their weight loss goals.
Exercise is another integral component of weight loss. Guiding your patients towards a tailored exercise program can help them burn calories, improve cardiovascular health, build lean muscle mass, and enhance overall fitness. By prescribing regular physical activity, you can support your patients in achieving their weight loss objectives.
Use the link below to download a shareable recipe PDF with your patients with some healthy summer recipe ideas!
Online Tools for Functional Medicine Practitioners
A healthy diet, caloric deficit, and exercise are the trifecta for weight loss, but getting patients started is easier said than done. Patients are often too busy and don’t know where to start. Similarly, you want to help patients in-between office visits, but you’re inundated with patients who need your guidance and support. If only you could be there for your patients every day, without having to be physically beside them.
That’s where BodySite comes in. BodySite offers a user-friendly platform that allows you to prescribe patient education plans that provide daily guidance to your patients whether it’s lifestyle, diet, exercise, or mindfulness. With BodySite, you can make your patient’s weight loss journey more convenient and effective by giving them access to virtual tools to help them on their journey.
Here’s how it works.
Enroll your patients on the platform and with a few clicks you can prescribe your patients an automated patient education plan. This plan will guide them day by day on what to eat and what exercises to perform. Once enrolled patients will instantly receive this information inside their account.
Everything that the patient tracks will then become available on your end as part of their patient record. You can even generate a full report of the patient’s data inside your portal. Once you’ve evaluated their data, send a message to them about how they’re doing, or schedule a HIPAA-compliant telemedicine appointment inside BodySite.
For added convenience, BodySite syncs directly with many popular connected health devices such as Fitbit, Oura ring, Innotech scale, Withings blood pressure cuffs, Apple Health enabled devices and more. These devices will collect patient data and instantly insert it into the patient’s record, providing another automated function for patients and providers.
Together, these digital tools enable you to prescribe exercise routines, share nutritious recipes, provide guidance, and monitor patient progress. By utilizing these resources, you can enhance patient compliance and improve long-term results.
With access to automated patient education programs like the Weight Loss Roadmap or the At Home Fitness Plan, your patients can receive daily guidance, track their food and, communicate with you within a secure and HIPAA-compliant portal.
Evaluating Patient Progress and Communication
Communication is key in facilitating patients’ success on their program. BodySite provides a secure and HIPAA-compliant communication platform and fully native telemedicine clinic, enabling you to communicate directly with your patients. By delivering updates, feedback, and personalized recommendations within the platform, you can establish a supportive environment that enhances patient compliance and motivation.
Thankfully, BodySite’s robust, native telemedicine functionality allows patients and providers to schedule telemedicine visits. Inside the telehealth visit, providers can take notes, access the patient record, prescribe the patient a care program, share their screen, share documents and, more. The best part is, at no additional cost, this native telemedicine clinic is available right inside your account. With a few clicks, you can easily visit with patients, in a secure environment eliminating the need to navigate between a multitude of softwares.
Set Up Your Portal
You play a vital role in helping your patients achieve weight loss success and improve their overall health. By combining your expert guidance with the integration of remote patient care technology, you can foster a collaborative relationship that enhances compliance and long-term results.
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