VALUE TO THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDER

The healthcare industry faces significant change over the next decade, and increasingly more healthcare organizations are meeting those challenges through efforts to reduce costs while improving long-term patient outcomes. With the advent of virtual, community-based care, providers can expect several advantages:

Gain real-time knowledge of key patient indicators, beyond health, without needing a clinician or caregiver present. This will eliminate gaps in patient monitoring and enhance the ability to identify new trends in patient health.

Prevents unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency room visits, and reduces the length of time that selected patients may need to be hospitalized.

For practitioners, virtual care can serve to extend hours and create new and more convenient models for their patients. With the latest advancements in broadband and wireless technologies, it also allows practitioners to expand remote care to rural areas or markets beyond in-person reach.

Empower caregivers and patients with real-time and documented vital signs and symptom information, to allow them to better identify factors that may exacerbate their health conditions, and to resolve them. This allows patients to become more involved in their care, which translates into higher patient satisfaction levels and improved outcomes.

Studies show that each medical encounter’s average length was around 20% less than in-person appointments. Shorter appointments with better data mean doctors can serve more patients.

By connecting clinicians directly and instantly with relevant patient records and live data, daily routines can be more efficient and reduce the potential for clinician burnout. Add to this the benefit of reduced commute time for caregivers, and the value is further increased.

VALUE TO THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDER