Author Question: Information technology (IT) can also be used to interact with a patient between encounters. Which of ... (Read 31 times)

vicotolentino · **on:** Jul 24, 2018

Information technology (IT) can also be used to interact with a patient between encounters. Which of the following statements about such interactions is true?

1. Patients feel the provider does not care about them if they are not seen in a face-to-face encounter.
2. Data collected from patients between encounters via IT is less accurate and complete.
3. Collecting data between encounters via IT may mean a more efficient face-to-face encounter.
4. Between encounters is a good time to collect screening data.

Question 2

Information technology can also be used for patient teaching during the encounter and after it. The provider can help patients and their families become savvy consumers of health-care information by:

1. Warning them about the questionable quality of health information online
2. Identifying easily used apps that patients can use to manage their medications
3. Teaching them how to identify high-quality Web sites and red flags signaling inaccurate content
4. All of the above