Here are five points:
1. The United States may face a shortage of as many as 31,000 primary care physicians by 2025.
2. The report details how a combination of virtual health tools and traditional patient care models may offset providers’ challenges with labor costs and capacity.
3. The tools can save money and time when applied to annual patient visits, ongoing patient management and patient self-care.
4. The tools enable providers to focus on high value tasks by shifting tasks to patients, replacing labor with technology and automating tasks.
5. In the ambulatory patient setting, virtual tools could save each U.S. primary care provider approximately five minutes per encounter.
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