Study shows: Doctors want digital networking

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Most doctors want to communicate with clinics and practices digitally and no longer by letter. This is shown by a study by the Health Foundation.

Doctors still mostly write letters. Almost 60 percent of doctors in private practice and even over 80 percent of clinicians use the postal service today. In addition, fax and telephone are also common forms of communication. If they had the choice, 36.4 percent of the resident doctors would prefer to communicate via email in a secure environment, 21.5 percent via an IT system that ideally could be integrated into the doctor information system. These two communication channels are also very popular with clinicians: 40.4 percent would like an IT system, 38.5 percent prefer emails in a secure environment.

Electronic exchange and eHealth

In addition, almost 40 percent of physicians in private practice want digital networking with referring clinics. And the clinicians share this wish: Over 70 percent of them want to digitally network with their outpatients. When it comes to actively participating in eHealth, the resident doctors are only a little over 20 percent much more reserved than their colleagues in the hospital with almost 60 percent. The skepticism of the resident doctors has already subsided somewhat compared to the previous year. At least 10 percent more than in 2016 generally find this development to be good, but would rather wait and see. Active eHealth use among general practitioners has also increased by 10 percent compared to the previous year. These are the results of the study “Doctors in the Future Health Market 2017”, which the Health Foundation presented at the turn of the year.

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