Did you ever wonder how your doctor knows everything .. find the secrets here!
According to a survey of 411 physicians conducted in June 2009 by Hall & Partners ::
- 86% of U.S. physicians use the Internet to gather health, medical or prescription drug information.
- Of physicians who use the Internet for health information, 92% said they accessed it from their office, while 21% said they did so with a patient in the examination room.
- 88% said they looked for health information online from home, while 59% reported doing so from a mobile device.
- 58% of doctors search more than once per day — including 65% of primary care physicians.
- About a third of the surveyed physicians said they had made a change to a patient’s medication as a result of a search, or had initiated new treatment.
- 71% of doctors consider a smartphone essential to their practice and 84% said that the Internet is critical to their job.
But why? Why do our doctors need to rely on technology to help them do their job?
94% of physicians are using smartphones to communicate, manage personal and business workflows, and access medical information.
78% of physicians interviewed by Hall and Partners were experiencing difficulties accessing and communicating with colleagues in a timely manner. Physicians are busy mobile professionals who are constantly on the go and are not always available when they are needed.
Our doctors are overwhelmed by the daily volume of communications received from colleagues, clinical team members and also patients. They lack automated tools to manage voice mail, pager messages, SMS messages and electronic mail. Physicians are forced to continually check separate data silos and manually filter and prioritize communications based upon sender, subject and priority. Critical communications easily fall through the cracks.
Our doctors are not cheating they are merely trying to survive![GTranslate]