eConsults
How eConsults Can Help You?
An e-consult or online medical consultation is an asynchronous, physician-to-physician communication about a patient’s chief complaint or current condition that leverages the expertise of a physician specialist. Electronic consultations, or eConsults, are often initiated by a primary care provider (PCP) seeking a specialist’s expert opinion about the appropriate diagnosis or treatment for a patient.
Which best describes you?
$3 million
estimated savings per year, per every 100,000 members.
Expanded network access. Reduced costs. Improved patient experience.
For payor organizations, online medical consultation with a specialist:
- Increase access with on-demand access to specialists within the primary care setting
- Reduce cost of care by eliminating unnecessary face-to-face referrals as well as associated workup and diagnostics
- Decrease wait times by providing rapid access to specialty care for routine referrals within primary care, and reducing appointment wait times for patients in need of face-to-face specialty care
- Improve member satisfaction by reducing unnecessary appointment burden and out-of-pocket costs
- Improve quality ratings
- Reduce ED admissions and readmissions
- Improve provider satisfaction by providing primary care providers a resource to expand care capacity and better preparing patients for specialist appointments
>92%
of eConsults significantly impact the care plan.
Improved network management. Increased access. Physicians working top of license.
To support health systems, eConsults:
- Connect PCPs to either AristaMD’s panel of specialists, or your own panel of specialists through the HIPAA compliant online platform
- Improve specialty care access while decreasing unnecessary face-to-face referrals, online medical consultation ensures “right provider, right patient, right time” care
- Treat lower-acuity and billing patients effectively within primary care
- Expedite visits for higher-acuity and billing patients to provide more timely care from health system specialists
- Reduce unnecessary referrals by expanding primary care capacity
>92%
of eConsults significantly impact the care plan.
Expanded clinical capabilities. Better care coordination. Better satisfaction.
For providers, eConsults:
- Replace unnecessary specialist visits
- Allow PCPs more patient care oversight
- Provide interim care planning advice while patients wait to be seen by a specialist
- Provide non-emergent EKG review Validation of treatment plan
- Validate the need to refer
- Answer treatment questions or medication regimen confirmation
- Guide specialized workup recommendations for specific conditions
- Ensure patients receive the appropriate pre-visit workup when a specialist referral is necessary
>70%
of the time, patients will be able to receive immediate treatment from their PCP.
Timely care. Fewer appointments. Reduced costs.
eConsults allow primary care providers to consult with specialists to reduce unnecessary face-to-face specialist appointments and get patients the care they need–faster.
Patients are positively impacted by eConsults, as they effectively:
- Provide fast access to care from within the comfort of the primary care office
- Reduce unnecessary appointments and associated burden, including: travel, missed work, and childcare
- Reduce wait times for necessary appointments
- Lower out-of-pocket expenses from out-of-network care, care not covered by insurance, and co-pays
- Strengthen the provider-to-patient relationship
- Offer a more convenient way of managing ongoing chronic and comorbid care
eConsults connect primary care providers to on-call specialists to collaborate on patient cases.
- Get rapid access to specialists
- Reduce routine clinical referrals by >70%
- Improve patient experience
- Provide care in the most appropriate setting
- Reduce patient wait times and specialist appointment queues
- Optimize clinic revenue
Simple, Interoperable Solutions
Turnkey solution
Simple login and easy virtual training.
Seamless care
eConsults are embedded into your current referral workflow.
Easy to use
Submitting eConsults and referrals
is quick and easy.
Interoperable
Multiple ways to integrate your EHR and referral management.