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Will digital technology give doctors time to treat?

2021-04-12T07:31:46.819Z


TRIBUNE - The delegation of tasks in general medicine and software applications must make it possible to free up time for a better relevance of care.


Announced as one of the emblematic measures of the Ma santé 2022 plan, will the delegation of tasks through the creation of new professions, such as that of medical assistant or engineer in organization and flow management achieve its ambitious objectives?

Collection of personal information, management of medical reports, coding and remote transmission, management of medico-legal risk, issuance of billing documents… So many time-consuming activities for the doctor which interfere in his relationship with the patient and which could be delegated.

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French medicine knows how to take time: in a study published in 2017 by the

British Medical Journal

, the average duration of a consultation in general medicine was estimated at 15 minutes, ranking France in 6th position out of 67 countries, behind Sweden ( 22.5 minutes) but far ahead of India (2 minutes).

But the time of the consultation is unfortunately not exclusively dedicated to care, clinical examination or discussion with the patient.

So the

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Source: lefigaro

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