Patient Self-Scheduling Has Reached a Tipping Point

The Digital Health Tipping Point report released in December 2023 by Panda Health provides key insights into the value that healthcare leaders see in digital health technologies. The report’s findings give a clear indication where investments are likely going to be made and where they may be scaled back. In other words, the report shows which digital health technologies have tipped into the “must-have” category. To get the inside scoop on the report, Healthcare IT Today sat down with Ryan Bengtson, President and COO at Panda Health. We had three key questions for him: What is the top “must-have” technology? What is technology is at the bottom of the priority list? Why is hospital-at-home not higher on the list of perceived value when there has been so much hype around it? Adoption of Patient Self-Scheduling Will Double Patient self-scheduling solutions topped the list of most “in-demand” technologies – expected to grow from 34% adoption to 75% by the end of 2024. “This is one of the solutions that encapsulates why we called the report ‘The Tipping Point’,” stated Bengtson. “It has a high return-on-investment with the labor savings and increase in productivity. The technology also has many proof points and clear demonstrated value. It has reached the tipping point.” Bengtson pointed out that patient self-scheduling is still far from a plug-and-play solution, but even though it takes work to implement, providers are willing to make the investment ...
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