8 Ways to Improve Patient-to-Doctor Communications

Poor communication among clinicians is pervasive and unfortunately results in serious and preventable patient harm. The problem of poor communication is clarified when noting that many clinicians use pagers as their primary mode of communications.

In our latest whitepaper 8 Ways to Improve Patient to Physician Communications we look at how physicians and patients can improve and clinics can improve exchanges by:

• Eliminating pager use
• Employing dedicated lines + voicemail
• Using redundancies and escalations to ensure messages are answered