Data from the Royal Australian College of GPs shows doctors are spending longer with patients but are worried about their financial viability as more patients either delay or avoid making appointments.
Dr Kean-Seng Lim uses remote monitoring technology to track his patients’ vitals.Data from the Royal Australian College of GPs shows doctors are spending longer with patients but are worried about their financial viability as more patients either delay or avoid making appointments.
Some data gets fed back to him automatically from wearable devices, while other information like weight and mood is manually entered into an app by his patients. RACGP president Nicole Higgins said doctors had no choice but to lift prices as Medicare rebates weren't keeping pace with inflation. "We have found some patients will not come to see us until they've tried a few other things already and the things they've done were probably not the best for them," Dr Lim said.Yvonne Stretton, 77, is a patient of Dr Lim's.ABC News: Timothy AilwoodIn June, she had a hypertension emergency and ended up in hospital with severely high blood pressure and no memory of what she'd done the day before.
"But if there's a spike in my readings the nurse will be in touch over the app to say, 'can you please make sure you increase your physical activity?'.Ravitesh Lal uses remote monitoring technology to avoid complications related to his high blood pressure.The RACGP survey found 46 per cent of GPs believe innovation would improve patient outcomes but only 13 per cent agreed they were well informed about the state of innovation within general practice.
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