Here are five takeaways from the survey.
- The top three characteristics physicians find attractive in digital health tools are their capacity to improve work efficiency, increase patient safety, and their diagnostic ability.
- Of physicians, 85 percent said they view digital health solutions as being advantageous to improving patient care, so long as they don’t reduce face time with patients.
- Physicians said quality digital tools must be at least as effective as current methods of patient care, easy to use, have liability coverage and data privacy elements, and they should be paid for time spent using the tools.
- Physicians said they feel if tools meet the aforementioned requirements, they would rapidly adopt them and anticipate minimal practice disruption.
- Nearly half of all respondents stated high enthusiasm for digital tools, regardless of age.
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