MONKS, Iowa, March 6, 2020 / PRNewswire / – Certintell Telehealth, a company focused on empowering safety net providers with telehealth solutions, recently released a white paper covering the benefits that community health centers can see after implementation telehealth services in their clinical workflows.
As noted in the White Paper, patient dissatisfaction is a growing concern for many health centers and hospitals. Patients are tired of sitting in waiting rooms to receive care that does not meet their standards. Patients and providers suffer because of this. Often patients even abstain from treatment because they do not have a regular clinic that they feel comfortable with.
Fortunately, telehealth is a growing area that can alleviate some of the problems faced by health centers and patients. Convenience and increasing familiarity with technology are some of the main reasons why patients try telehealth. In addition to this, telehealth can save money for patients and participating providers, encouraging high patient retention and overall satisfaction.
The five described benefits of telehealth for health centers include:
- Ease of use thanks to increased knowledge of technology in the field of health care and all walks of life. Almost everything can be done with the help of smartphones and computers now, including healthcare.
- Affordability for health centers. Clinics are estimated to save $ 312 – $ 542 per quarter thanks to telehealth.1
- Shorter waiting times for patients; 30% of patients left a health center or hospital due to excessive waiting times and 20% changed providers because of this.2
- Improved health, especially for patients living in rural areas with chronic diseases.
- Greater patient satisfaction. A happy patient is a patient who returns!
For more information on the benefits of telehealth for health centers, click here to download the full white paper.
1 Baker, Laurence et al. “Integrated telehealth and care management program for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic savings-related illnesses.” PubMed, Sep. 2011, www.researchgate.net/publication/51626608_Integrated_Telehealth_And_Care_Management_Program_For_Medicare_Beneficiaries_With_Chronic_Disease_Linked_To_Savings.
2 “Publication of the 9th annual report on vital waiting times.” Business Wire, March 22, 2018, http://bit.ly/5-telehealth-benefits
About Certintell
Certintell is a rapidly growing care management company that enables providers of safety nets to have a lasting impact on the health of underserved patients through telehealth.
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