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Sample eConsults: Requests & Responses

See our sample eConsults  based on an actual response from a specialist. All patient, provider, and specialist details have been removed to de-identify these eConsults. These booklets includes specialty care responses for cardiology, certified diabetic education, endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatric medicine, hematology, neurology, pediatric specialties, psychiatry & addiction medicine, pulmonology and rheumatology. See all of our available specialty & sub-specialty areas available for eConsults.

How eConsults Support Comprehensive Rheumatology Care for Arthritis

With long specialist wait times, providers across the country are turning to eConsults to offer comprehensive rheumatology care. They often help patients manage chronic conditions like rheumatoid arthritis while dealing with the realities of limited access to specialists. Specialist shortages, limited access, and long wait times for specialty care can negatively impact patient outcomes.

Electronic physician-to-specialist consultations, or eConsults can help mitigate the challenge of specialist shortages and other delays in treatment by offering comprehensive rheumatology care. An eConsult is an asynchronous physician-to-physician communication about a patient, conducted over a secure digital platform, that enables PCPs to leverage the expertise of physician specialists like rheumatologists. eConsults gives patients immediate access to specialists from within a primary care setting.

Below, we use rheumatoid arthritis, a disease that affects about 1.5 million US adults, as an example of how eConsults can help PCPs work with specialty physicians to manage a chronic, complex disease.