Provide Healthcare 24/7 Using Automation
You can’t clone yourself (yet). You know this, but as a healthcare professional, it makes sense that you wish you could. In today’s fast-paced world, patients expect to have access to healthcare at all hours of the day.
Due to this, you may feel pressure to be available to your patients around the clock. While you can’t be in multiple places at once physically, you can digitally.
Using automation, you can provide care to your patients when you’re not physically present and in some cases, even while you sleep. In today’s’ article we’re discussing ways you can actually serve multiple patient needs at once through digital tools and the benefits of doing so.
Telemedicine:
One way to provide around the clock care to your patients is through telemedicine tools. Telemedicine visits are a convenient option for patients who may not have the ability to physically come to your office, those who need appointments outside of normal business hours, or patients who cannot easily travel to see you in person.
These systems also enable you to save time, allowing you to focus on providing care remotely, whether you’re in the office, at home, or elsewhere.
Additionally, group visits are an excellent and highly efficient way to be in multiple places at once using telemedicine.
Providers will often conduct telemedicine group visits for patients with similar chronic conditions, situations or questions, in order to address common issues in one session. Group visits are also commonly used for group programs and challenges.
Through group visits, patients can learn from each other’s questions and concerns as well as empathize with those experiencing similar challenges with their health. This format not only allows you to be present on the screens of multiple patients, but it also is an incredible timesaver for you.
Patient Portal for Digital Communications:
Another vital tool that can help you provide care to your patients around the clock is a patient portal. While patient portals are commonplace in many offices, not all apps allow patients to communicate with their healthcare team, schedule telemedicine visits, track patient progress, or give patients access to educational tools and resources online.
Apps like these are game changing resource for providers looking to enhance their overall patient experience. Additionally, this technology can be especially useful for patients who have questions or concerns outside of normal office hours.
If your current patient portal doesn’t allow you to educate your patients via interactive tools, consider integrating a solution into your practice that gives your patients all the resources they need to be successful.
Patient Tracking for Improved Outcomes:
Tracking patient progress is essential to ensuring patient compliance. This is especially true when it comes to patients with chronic conditions or who are following a detailed weight loss regime.
But, whether you want to or not, you can’t go home with all you patients to watch what they eat, make sure they exercise or to ensure they take their medication. Which means most patient tracking and monitoring stops once a patient leaves your office.
This is why technology such as an app that allows patients to track their blood pressure or manage their diabetes can be a vital tool for helping patients stay on track with your care instructions.
Moreover, technology that allows patients to use devices such as their Apple Watch, Fitbit or blood pressure cuff to automatically sync their biometric and activity data to your portal can instantly give you and your patients a daily snapshot of their health. This allows you to assess your patients needs without having to see your patient in person.
Automated Patient Education:
Automated patient education is one of the main ways that providers can be in multiple places at once, even while you’re sleeping. Automated patient education provides your patients with patient education tools, such as online resources, video content, and intake forms, that can help you scale your patient education efforts without increasing your workload.
Using the information and resources that you have prescribed, patients can take an active role in their own care during all hours of the day. In other words, they’re accessing your care instructions and guidance even when you’re not available.
Prescribing these programs can be done in a few simple clicks, and you can also prescribe whichever care programs you deem appropriate to multiple patients at once. That’s working smarter, not harder.
Mobile App for Patient and Provider:
By now you know that your smart phone is for more than just phone calls and games. It’s your lifeline for everything from personal banking, to running your practice.
That’s why it only makes sense to have the ability to track patient care, conduct virtual visits/appointments, and communicate with patients and staff via your mobile device.
Having a mobile app that connects your patients and staff provides a countless benefits, such as:
- The ability to provide care anywhere: A mobile app can allow you to access patient information from any location, which can be especially useful for doctors on the go.
- Increased efficiency: By having all of a patient’s information in one place and accessible from a mobile device, you can save time and enhance your office’s efficiency.
- Patient tracking: Helps to track patient progress, which can be useful to make decisions based on patient data.
- Enhanced communication: A mobile app can facilitate communication between you and your staff by allowing them to collaborate on cases, as well as give you the ability to direct message or tele-visit with patients while remaining HIPAA compliant.
- Better patient engagement: Help patients stay engaged in their own health care and be more motivated to implement healthy lifestyle changes.
Overall, a mobile remote patient care app can help doctors provide better care, improve communication and collaboration, and increase efficiency and accessibility.
Why Should You Automate?
Using automation to provide care to your patients 24/7 can can help you save time and reduce administrative burden, improve patient outcomes, and enhance patient satisfaction.
With the right tools and a little planning, you can use automation to provide care to your patients 24/7 and take your practice to the next level. If you’re interested in implementing the solutions we’ve discussed above, consider checking out BodySite.com.
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