Experts at the Society of General Internal Medicine meeting offered best practices for clinicians in billing and caring for patients using online portals.
BOSTON — Online patient portals have shifted patient expectations of how quickly clinicians respond and provide timely care, which can lead to burnout. But asynchronous care can, in some cases, be compensated and increase physician productivity and enhance patient care, according to experts who led a workshop at the
But patient portals can give clinicians another tool to deliver care beyond conventional office visits or telemedicine appointments, Schmidt said. Asynchronous care holds promise in extending care beyond traditional constraints, according to Stephen Fuest, MD, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado, and a co-moderator of the workshop.
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