If there is a silver lining to the current pandemic, it has to be the way that so many critical industries – like the health industry, for example – have found new and innovative ways to operate effectively in the face of COVID 19.
Telehealth solutions have improved by leaps and bounds, forced to adapt and innovate much faster than they might have without a global pandemic shaking up the traditional medical community.
Remote patient verification tools have helped usher in a new era in telehealth and telemedicine, streamlining the patient onboarding and continuing care process in a way no one could have imagined just a few years ago.
Telehealth Demand Has Skyrocketed
To the surprise of absolutely no one, the demand for telehealth and telemedicine services has absolutely skyrocketed over the last year – with a number of businesses in this industry reporting 240% growth over the last 12 months (and some growing even faster than that).
People are looking to receive top-notch medical care without actually having to visit in person with their primary care physician or their medical specialists.
With this dramatic demand in telehealth services, however, has been a lot of stress on the previously existing telehealth infrastructure.
Onboarding millions and millions of new patients in the middle of a pandemic is a nightmare scenario no matter how you slice it, though remote patient verification solutions have helped to streamline things significantly.
Efficient Patient Onboarding and Continuing Care Verification
For a number of (very obvious) reasons, those in the telehealth world are doing everything they can to make sure that the personal and private medical information their patients are sharing through the services are kept personal and private.
A big part of this is making sure that each individual patient is verified to be the right patient in the first place, and remote patient verification tools (like those provided by ID Analyzer) are helping to make that possible.
Going beyond a simple digital verification of identifying documents (like a drivers license, for example), the remote patient verification tools available today are more sophisticated, more accurate, and more consistent than ever before.
This allows medical facilities using this technology to onboard new patients more effectively, get them into their patient databases correctly, and continue their care (while continuously verifying their information and identity) almost 100% remotely.
The stress this is taken off of the healthcare community has been immense, opening up new telehealth opportunities that wouldn’t have existed in the past. This is very much the future of patient ID verification, and telehealth will play a big part in modern medicine moving forward because of that.