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In a 5/16 Physician’s Practice blog post, the author, Erica Adler writes about the benefits and considerations of physician’s text messaging with their patients. Some of the concerns Adler cites in her article include: 1. Physician Contact – If patients are texted from a providers cell, one risks patients’ obtaining access to the provider’s cell number, which, beyond physician...
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Last Thursday my friend had an appointment with his doctor at 7:30pm. My friend usually runs late, so I wasn’t surprised when he abruptly ended our phone call in order to call his doctor to report he was running late. He called the doctor’s office only to be informed that the office was closed for the night. At his insistence, the call center operator dialed a private line within the...
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We’ve been involved with patient portals for over a decade. We recall early articles reciting survey results. In one early memorable article, a survey by Harris interactive indicated that of patients who had internet access, 78% of patients want to use the internet to communicate with their doctors. But, are we there yet? Last month, we read another article. Guess what. 78% of patients...
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The Pew research group along with the California Health Care foundation published a survey recently on the topic of how consumers use the internet to research health information. A summary of the results are below: 66% of internet users look online for information about a specific disease or medical problem (perennially in the top spot). 56% of internet users look online for information about a...
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