Being proactive about keeping patients engaged and on time for physicals, health screenings and follow-up appointments – it’s the key to growing visit volume, and more importantly, delivering better outcomes and creating healthier communities.
Certainly, the last couple of decades have seen incredible progress toward care and reimbursement models that focus on preventing illness as much as treating illness. However, in recent years we’ve seen some rollback. COVID was a major disruptor of course, as it temporarily forced a movement away from seeking healthcare that wasn’t considered essential or immediately necessary. But the problem runs deeper than that. What experts are seeing now is a decrease in uptake of preventive services coupled with an increase in chronic disease prevalence and severity. These trends signal the need for medical practice providers and other health leaders to invest in preventive health campaigns…
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