Expect More Questions From Your Doctor
282 views · Published 8 July 2014 · 2:10 · Indexed 25 October 2026
Channel: KUTV 2 News Salt Lake City · 2014 · News & Politics
(KUTV) - As journalists, we tend to ask a lot of questions. Now, you may notice that your primary care physician is asking a lot of questions. Healthcare providers want the best outcome for their patients. So there is a push for physicians to ask the "right" questions. "We like to say in healthcare that the mystery lies in the history." Doctor Elizabeth Joy is the Clinical Director of Outcomes Research for Intermountain Healthcare. She says Intermountain Healthcare is now providing tools to physicians to help engage their patients. Doctors will now be asking more questions than just "how are you feeling?" They will now ask their patients about things like their level of physical activity. The idea is to start conversations. "Using tools like these allows us as healthcare providers to get the information we need from patients in order to help the patient get the best outcome for them." Doctor Joy says this type of personalized care gives patients a voice with their own healthcare. "For so many years, what the physician said was the voice and the information that really mattered. But the truth is patients are going to be far more compliant with treatment recommendations if they had more engagement and more interaction." (Copyright 2014 Sinclair Broadcast Group)
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