How eConsults Can Help PCPs Benefit From the Primary Cares Initiative

Conclusion Primary care has increasingly been recognized as the key to addressing many lingering issues within the United States patient population, and the Primary Cares Initiative offers new models to support leveraging primary care physicians to improve performance in terms of health care costs, efficiency of care, patient outcomes, and overall satisfaction. By implementing innovative asynchronous telehealth technologies such as eConsults–aimed to overcome access, quality, cost and satisfaction challenges stemming from the specialist referral system–PCPs gain a means to play an even more integral and active role in patient outcomes. eConsults facilitate right care at the right time in the right place thereby expediting treatment and drastically reduce costs, resulting in significantly better outcomes and satisfaction. This enables PCPs to improve on metrics vital to succeeding under such programs as the Primary Cares Initiative—and other such primary care-focused initiatives that are inevitably around the corner. Chris Jaeger is the Advisor for ACO and Health System Strategy at AristaMD. The post How eConsults Can Help PCPs Benefit From the Primary Cares Initiative appeared first on The Health Care Blog.
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