Enhance your Patient-Physician Relationship with a Patient Portal. By Priyal Patel on February 27th, 2012 Another Valentine’s Day just passed and I couldn’t help but recall all the movies, shows and interviews that were on television talking repeatedly about how the most important thing for a strong, long lasting, trusting relationship is good communication. Sure, this is no big secret, but it got me thinking about how true this is, not only for our love lives, but for another very important relationship…the one with our physician. If communication is the key element to a successful relationship, any imbalance can lead to its failure, right?
So, to constantly hear, “Thank you for calling Dr. X’s office. We are unable to take your call at this time, but please leave us a detailed message and we will return your call during our regular business hours,” can make your heart negatively flutter and eventually take a toll on this very important relationship. Patient Benefits: Provider Benefits Relationships are hard work. Resources for this blog: Providing Health Information to Busy Patients | Healthcare IT Solutions. “People are not built to pay attention.” – Dr. Clifford Nass, Connected Health Symposium 2011 This priceless piece of wisdom was provided during last month’s Connected Health Symposium in Boston. What Dr. Nass successfully communicating to symposium attendees is that while we envision a world where patients are consuming healthcare information in isolation of all else, they are actually consuming information the way that we all actually do in this real-time, fast paced environment. The volume of information in patient portals can be overwhelming.
Should doctors, nurses, and social workers recommend online patient communities to patients? Doctors use physician social networks, such as Ozmosis, to communicate with one another, share medical information and refine treatment protocols. Coincidentally, the doctor that prescribed an online patient community to “ePatient Dave” was seated directly behind me at a particular panel discussion. Drportal.hu. WEBBeteg – Orvosoktól betegeknek, hitelesen. Kamaszpanasz - fiatalokról fiataloktól fiataloknak.