Nurses and medical assistants respond to patient messages and can escalate messages to providers when appropriate, according to the publication. This group also does this for patient replies to a provider’s message.
The health system also only lets a patient message a provider they have seen in the past year and closes a patient’s messaging thread after 30 days.
The initiatives have resulted in a 25 percent decrease in physicians’ message volumes.
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