Leveraging Sunoh.ai for Telehealth to Improve Patient/Provider Experiences
Imagine a world in which millions of people could purchase goods and services, order meals, arrange travel, make appointments, socialize, and find healthcare services with the click of a button — and without ever leaving their homes.
Confused? Don’t be. Obviously, those are all realities for a growing number of people in today’s world. Leveraging the power of telecommunications to simplify daily transactions is one of the defining features of our age.
But the rate at which these realities have arrived is startling, and the world we imagined above would have been a complete fantasy a generation or two ago. And it takes a bit of imagination to grasp just how different the 2020s are from the 1920s.
But it wasn’t, perhaps, quite as different as we might think. Telehealth was nothing like today’s videoconferencing, but it did exist, albeit in a very rudimentary form. Doctors in Australia were using radios and radio telegraphy as early as 1928 to connect with patients in remote areas of that vast country.
It took many advances in technology, some legislation, and a global pandemic to get us to where we are today.
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged health systems worldwide, but one of the benefits that emerged from that difficult time was the realization that telehealth can and should play a larger role in medical systems around the globe.
And as interesting as the history of telehealth has been, the near future is likely to deliver even greater surprises and results.
Now for a second act of imagination: Combine the power and efficiency of AI-powered medical scribes with telehealth.
AI scribes help providers by relieving them of the burden of note taking during their patient encounters. They create clinically accurate draft Progress Notes that give medical professionals a big jump on their daily paperwork.
And some providers have already put these two critical pieces of the patient care puzzle together, deploying an AI medical scribe in conjunction with a telehealth visit to realize even greater gains in efficiency — saving time and money for providers and patients alike.
Case study: How MedPeds, LLC leverages Sunoh.ai
MedPeds, LLC, a practice serving adult and pediatric patients in and around Laurel, Maryland, found that streamlining the clinical documentation process with Sunoh.ai allowed the organization to spend more time and energy focusing on its patients, improving its quality of care while reducing burnout among staff.