Containment in healthcare involves equipping providers with the appropriate recommendations to effectively manage a patient’s care within their practice, without the need for unnecessary referrals or consultations outside of the practice. This is particularly important in ensuring efficient resource utilization and reducing healthcare costs while maintaining high-quality care.
Topic Results for "Primary Care"
Evaluate Practice Performance Metrics for eConsult Programs: Measuring Practice Cost Savings
eConsults drive practice cost savings for your practices by replacing referrals, eliminating unnecessary testing, reducing emergency room visits and avoiding hospital readmissions. An eConsult that avoids a specialty referral results in 3 avoided specialty visits, which is the average number of appointments needed to diagnose and treat a patient. Each specialty visit costs approximately $300. The avoided visit savings to an at-risk practice is $900.
Evaluate Practice Performance Metrics for eConsult Programs: Measuring Clinical Quality
Multiple studies have shown that improved access to specialty advice and preventative care decreases the incidence of disease and patient mortality, resulting in improved clinical quality. By addressing health problems before they require emergency intervention, both patients and the health system save money and see better outcomes.
Evaluate Practice Performance Metrics for eConsult Programs: Measuring eConsult Patient Benefits
eConsults patient benefits include cost savings, less travel, reduced time off work, faster diagnosis and treatment, and improved outcomes.
Specialist eConsults Enable Faster Diagnosis and Treatment
Specialist eConsults allow providers to offer faster treatment, avoid contraindications, and reduce the burden of care for patients.
Evaluate Practice Performance Metrics for eConsult Programs: Measuring Patient Access to Specialty Care
To increase patient access to specialty care, consider which specialties that have long appointment wait times, higher costs, conditions easily manage by the PCP, or do not require a face-to-face specialist visit.
Measuring Practice Success and Patient Care: Identifying Conditions Easily Managed in the Primary Care Setting
If it’s not urgent, procedural or diagnostic, it likely can be managed in the primary care setting using an eConsult. eConsult specialists also support patients with chronic conditions and abnormal labs and imaging. Finally, patients with comorbidities are often good candidates for eConsults.
What Types of Conditions Do You See in Your eConsult Requests?
In this video, Dr. Coggshall, a Dermatologist, discusses how a specialist can benefit a physician and their patient through simple eConsult requests.
Evaluate Practice Performance Metrics for eConsult Programs: Measuring Provider Adoption
Practice performance metrics are in focus whenever a new tool is introduced to improve patient care. In this series, we’ll focus on practice success and patient care when adopting or maintaining an eConsult program. Many of these strategies apply to increasing the adoption of any new technology or program.
Navigating the Boom: Healthcare Specialties and Wait Times
Navigating the Boom: Healthcare Specialties and Wait Times – The demand for top-quality specialty care in the healthcare industry is on the rise, yet so are the wait times to access these services. The current top specialties are: Radiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Psychiatry and Gastroenterology.