We Care Online

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Source: Pixabay The Rise of Digital Healthcare Platforms With the widespread adoption of smartphones and internet access, patients are increasingly using digital tools to seek information, schedule appointments, and consult healthcare providers.

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Valant

AUGUST 5, 2024

By consistently collecting and analyzing this data, clinicians can gain insights into patient progress between appointments; implement evidence-based, targeted treatments; and improve patient engagement by involving them in monitoring their own progress. There is a famous saying, “what gets measured gets managed.”

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Mobius MD

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Virtual Health Assistants – Virtual assistants can handle routine patient queries, triage symptoms, provide medication reminders, and even schedule appointments. Doctors who spend less time on paperwork have more time for patients and report less burnout.

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Practice Index

JULY 4, 2024

Access to general practice has been a hot topic recently, with political parties vying to promise more appointments and enhanced GP availability. As Practice Managers, we need precise appointment data tailored to our practice, relying on our own figures rather than generic estimates. There’s no shortcut here.

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Practice Index

AUGUST 22, 2024

Implementing measures like limiting routine appointments has given us a chance to focus on complex cases and urgent needs. We’ve also implemented additional triage systems to ensure urgent cases are prioritised. “The collective action has been a real morale booster for our team,” said a Practice Manager at a practice in Manchester. “I

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Dispute over growing appointment numbers GP and NHS leaders have clashed over another upsurge in appointment requests. NHS England says the nearly 26 million appointments in December demonstrate progress in improving primary care, while the Royal College of GPs says it shows that pressure on practices is becoming even more intolerable.

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CollaborateMD

MAY 17, 2023

Patients expect prompt answers to their queries, even outside of appointments. With a comprehensive communication platform, healthcare providers can communicate easily with patients through digital channels with workflow tools to help effectively triage and manage those communications.

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Valant

JUNE 19, 2024

Benefits for Patients and Providers Telemedicine offers several advantages: Efficiency: Patients save time by avoiding commutes and waiting rooms, leading to more efficient appointments. Convenience: Patients can schedule appointments at their convenience, sometimes even during non-traditional hours.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The pandemic has also grown the types of services providers were offering via telehealth beyond traditional triage or real-time consults for urgent medical issues when doctor’s offices were closed. GoodRx then assessed the patient view on telehealth engagement, asking consumers how telehealth compared with in-person care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days. Streaming video fast-grew, with Disney+ hitting 50 million subscribers in five months (of course, it didn’t hurt that the program launched with Hamilton !). Remote learning pivoted 250 million students to move to online learning over 2 weeks, and.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2023

In this study, those activities included access to pharmacy benefits (including drug discount cards); accessing information on medical, dental and vision insurance; scheduling appointments; checking-in to upcoming appointments; and, connecting with healthcare providers’ websites or patient portals.

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Prism Career Institute

JUNE 5, 2024

They can answer questions, give directions, and remind patients about their appointments. In addition, they can help triage patient complaints.‍ ‍ ‍Scheduling appointments: This includes booking, rescheduling, and canceling appointments.

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Northwest Career College

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Appointment scheduling is one of the main tasks that needs to be done effectively to organize the overall day-to-day operation. Appointment Scheduling in the Healthcare Field Good scheduling is so much more than maintaining the organization of the day. Record and track appointment histories quickly.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Deloitte’s 2023 Health Care Consumer survey polled 2,014 US adults and found that one-half overall felt that AI had the potential to improve access to care (such as lowering wait times for appointments), and nearly one-half so said AI could improve affordability in the form of lowering individuals’ health care costs.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Continuity reduces demand for appointments Good continuity of care in general practice could reduce consultations by about 5%, according to analysis published in ‘Management Science’. Same-day hubs planned for London A second area of England has unveiled plans for “same-day hubs” to triage patients seeking practice appointments.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

MARCH 11, 2024

Urgent Care Centers: Assist with triage and patient assessments. Administrative duties: Scheduling appointments. Outpatient Care Centers: Assist with patient intake and procedures. Nursing Homes/Assisted Living Facilities: Provide care to elderly residents. Specialty Practices: Assist with specialized procedures and tests.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Dr. Halamka is President of CHAI, and Dr. Brian Anderson was appointed the CEO this month following many years of leadership in responsible AI work.

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Mobius MD

APRIL 3, 2024

If possible, forward appropriate messages to a triage nurse who can determine if the patient can wait for a visit, be sent to urgent care, or should go to the emergency room. Using templates can save time and ensure consistency in communicating with patients and colleagues.

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Arkenea

MARCH 9, 2025

By integrating generative AI, hospitals can automate routine tasks such as appointment scheduling, patient triage, and discharge instructions, freeing up valuable staff time. Using a hospital appointment app, hospitals can streamline paperwork and arrange patient appointments more easily.

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The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Call your physician to make a follow up appointment. I can’t make any appointments. We send them out of our emergency room doors with discharge paperwork and tend to the next patient waiting in triage. Other factors include low rates of diagnosis, inadequate treatment, and relapse of symptoms. I’m sorry for your loss”.

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Mobius MD

MARCH 26, 2025

Delegate when possible: Involve other team members in triaging electronic messages. Encourage routine visits: At each appointment, remind patients of when they should schedule with you next. Offer flexible care options: Provide telehealth or off-hours appointments when possible.

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Enhanced Patient Care Patients can get annoyed by long waiting hours and freeing up time for appointments. It increases patient engagement as they actively participate in scheduling appointments online, tracking their health, getting prescription refills, and eliminating transportation costs.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It can provide patients with information related to their health, answer questions, and assist in scheduling appointments. ChatGPT in healthcare can remind patients of their medications, upcoming appointments, and information about the side effects of their medicines. It also exceeded the online symptom checker’s triage accuracy.

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Mobius MD

MAY 1, 2024

You can create standardized prep sheets for common conditions to empower MAs to anticipate and arrange required tasks, facilitating smoother appointments. For example, patients should be able to easily schedule and re-schedule appointments online or through an app without any involvement from clinic staff.

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

We have a simulation operating room, a delivery room, emergency medicine room, and different patient triage areas where they can learn. It can give you a glimpse of medicine, especially since a lot of healthcare now is going to virtual visits, set an appointment over the phone. So we want to do it in a safe environment.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Using telehealth appointments for chronic conditions, follow-up visits, and other non-urgent care can reduce unnecessary hospital visits, which in turn ensures triage and earlier treatment of the seriously ill. The public echoes this sentiment.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

This is an innovative, free, online triage tool and app that guides users faced with a poison emergency through a series of simple questions to determine the next steps they need to take. After that fateful doctor’s appointment, I immediately went on sick leave and then short-term disability.

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Practice Index

JUNE 27, 2024

It says that those practices already employing PAs should ensure there is appropriate time for supervision and that they review processes for triage, induction and supervision. The college wants the regulation of PAs to proceed rapidly, but the BMA has now announced legal action against the GMC over its handling of regulation.

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Practice Index

MARCH 7, 2024

Same day appointment hubs plan shelved A controversial plan for “same day” hubs, which would triage patients seeking practice appointments, has been shelved due to GP concerns. million it has received to improve access to appointments. The North West London ICB had proposed introducing the hubs on 1 st April.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I asked the nurse I work with to fill the 4 or so hours I’d be in clinic with people whose appointments had been canceled and seemed like they needed to be seen. After being triaged, I was left waiting in an ER room alone. Every one of the openings was filled with entitled, very connected people. One good story.

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