Employee healthcare visits consume 101 minutes, including commuting, waiting, and receiving treatment.

By Korey Korfiatis • 14 Jul, 2021
We’ve grown accustomed to more convenience and better service in every part of our lives, and the market punishes businesses that fail to deliver. Plus, small inefficiencies in workflow add up to strip away profits. As we move forward, healthcare delivery will continue to parallel other consumer experiences. Accessible, hassle-free care should be the standard, and it can be. Organizations that integrate healthcare closer to where people work and tune into social trends will thrive as the future unfolds. A traditional healthcare visit consumes 101 minutes, including commuting, waiting, and receiving treatment. Your employees lose vital momentum and productivity during their day every time they leave for an appointment. What if we made medical visits so accessible that: Your employees saved over an hour away from the office for every medical visit? You enjoyed predictable, fixed costs tailored for your team’s wellness? Your benefits package stood out in a competitive hiring environment? Employees had

The Convenience of On-Site Medical Solutions

By Korey Korfiatis • 01 Jul, 2021
2020 brought wellness into sharp focus and forced organizations in a changing world to adapt on every level. New modes of healthcare delivery intersected with emerging consumer expectations, and that wave will continue to shape healthcare in 2021 and beyond. Before the pandemic arrived, consumers had already gravitated towards convenience. Amazon Prime and Uber Eats exemplify service options that patients subconsciously look for in the healthcare space. They appreciate solutions that improve access to care, and they don’t want to wait for hours in a waiting room. Frustration and stress from disruptive medical visits often spill over into productive workdays. Here’s what we know: 20% of patients will change providers following a single long wait-time appointment. 71% of patients are frustrated with their healthcare experience. We’ve grown accustomed to more convenience and better service in every part of our lives, and the market punishes businesses that fail to deliver. Plus, small inefficiencies

Moving Modern Healthcare To Where People Live And Work

By Korey Korfiatis • 22 May, 2021
Most people take for granted that medical appointments require visits to a hospital or health clinic. The process typically involves would-be patients scheduling an appointment, requesting time off from their employer--or squeezing it in a visit during a lunch break--commuting to the health service provider, parking, checking in, waiting to be seen, meeting with the provider, checking out, and commuting back to work. What if this process could be simplified? Imagine a new paradigm where employers offer healthcare where their employees actually work? AnovaWorks makes this possible through occupational services like onsite clinics. What Is An Onsite Clinic? Onsite clinics are spaces employers offer that make access to licensed providers readily available to their employees. Some serve only minor injuries while others offer primary care and preventative health services. Onsite clinics are becoming popular among both employees and employers alike, saving valuable time and streamlining the services patients nee

Telemedicine Clinics: Instant Healthcare Access For Employees

Business as usual today is not business as usual. Changing workflow and practices,  maintaining productivity with a workforce that constantly alternates, and functioning without key personnel have become daily challenges. For example, if you lose one person from a two-person clinic, you lose 50% of your capacity to maintain production. 


AnovaWorks is sharing that burden by developing telemedicine clinics that seamlessly provide quality care to fill those voids. AnovaWorks protocols connect state-of-the-art electronic medical instruments that share clinical information with the telemedicine provider in real time (i.e. stethoscopes, oto-ophthalmoscopes and dermatoscopes). And the quality of this information is remarkable! 


What Is Telemedicine? 


Telemedicine is vicarious patient care through an audio-visual form of electronic communication. Much like the internet altered shopping, telemedicine is a technological advance that’s changing the practice of medicine. Although it reduces the "personal" aspect of a medical visit and the ability to examine the patient, telemedicine is a big advance over telephone and email communication because it gives providers the ability to visualize patients’ non-verbal cues.


Thanks to telemedicine, patients can enjoy easy access to healthcare with a much lower investment of time, travel, and hassle. For insurers, the cost may be the same as in-person visits; for example, Washington law connected insurance visit codes to telemedicine in 2017. Another benefit of telemedicine is that providers gain access to a large patient population (limited only by the patient's residence, the  provider's licensure, and insurer relationships) without an investment in brick and mortar, plus enjoy greater flexibility in their residence and practice hours. 


A Time-Saving Solution

 

Many patients and providers today see a medical visit as a quest for pills. In such scenarios, virtual visits are attractive as an initial touchpoint for a medical problem or management of chronic or recurring pain. Presently, some cases are limited due to the need for a physical evaluation to adequately diagnose treatment recommendations prior to prescribing a remedy. Telemedicine, however, is an extremely efficient mode for follow-up visits.


Many providers value time away from work or the workplace above a professional connection to their patients or employer, viewing a barrier between themselves and a difficult patient as a benefit. Even many primary care and urgent care visits include only a cursory examination, if any. For these practices, the lack of ability to examine patients is not a professional detriment, nor would it be for many of their patients.


Large provider organizations will see telemedicine as the perfect solution to compete for market share in a large area, and decrease the cost of maintaining a primary care/urgent care function in order to access the high dollar codes by negotiating higher fees for telemedicine visits.


Emergency rooms may see this as an opportunity to keep low paying and non-emergency patients out of their schedules, thus lowering staffing costs and limiting their services to high paying emergency cases. Additionally, government officials may see telemedicine as a way to curb healthcare costs for the Medicaid population, especially in states where telemedicine is already connected to reimbursement.


Telemedicine at NovaWorks


At NovaWorks, telemedicine is enhanced by personal relationships, visit support, hands-on examinations, and electronic diagnostic data transmission. NovaWorks is training staff to provide a telemedicine experience that creates trust when executing this new type of medical visit. NovaWorks is hiring and training telemedicine providers and support staff who are excited to be practicing on this frontier of medicine. The goal is to continue to produce high quality outcomes, regardless of the COVID virus, or any other disruption. 


Give your employees instant access to healthcare with telemedicine clinics.

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