The Physician – Patient Disconnect

If you’ve been in healthcare for a while, then you know that there’s often a disconnect between patients and healthcare professionals. However, this divide was illustrated pretty sharply in some research that Conduent (previously known as Xerox) put out about the relationship.

Plus, to add to this disconnect, there was an even bigger divide between patients from different ages. In fact, they’re a very heterogeneous group. However, so many healthcare organizations treat them the same.

For a good illustration of these differences, take a second to look at this infographic:

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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