Deloitte polled 624 primary care and specialty physicians from across the U.S. about their attitudes toward telehealth technologies — including email, video and remote patient monitoring — and what health systems can do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care.
Here are eight reasons physicians said they wouldn’t use virtual care technologies:
1. Potential medical errors: 36 percent
2. Workplace doesn’t offer these technologies: 35 percent
3. Security and privacy of patient information: 33 percent
4. Patients aren’t interested or don’t have the technology to support virtual care: 23 percent
5. Won’t work with current practice workflow: 22 percent
6. Increased practice costs: 18 percent
7. Aren’t interested: 8 percent
8. Don’t see a need to add to practice: 5 percent
Eleven percent of respondents indicated none of these options captured their concerns about adopting virtual care technologies.
To access Deloitte’s survey, click here.
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