Healthcare utilization (how often you go to the doctor) is a driver of doctor wait times. The more people that want access to a scarce resource — the doctor’s time — the longer the line will be 

An easy way to make the line shorter is to get rid of avoidable visits — when people show up to the doctor and take their time, but didn’t actually need it 

In this study, “expert patients” — those trained as doctors and nurses — were looked at to see if they use less healthcare. And they do! Primarily for conditions that need a prescription — the practitioner just self prescribes 

Suggests that telemedicine and AI type providers can help reduce healthcare utilization through avoidable visits by letting people just get the dang antibiotics: for their UTI, or step throat (+rapid test), their asthma meds, eczema, migraines, cold sores. 

Allow people easier access to meds when the condition is predictable, familiar, and has a clear treatment path

Healthcare utilization (how often you go to the doctor) is a driver of doctor wait times. The more people that want access to a scarce resource — the doctor’s time — the longer the line will be 

An easy way to make the line shorter is to get rid of avoidable visits — when people show up to the doctor and take their time, but didn’t actually need it 

In this study, “expert patients” — those trained as doctors and nurses — were looked at to see if they use less healthcare. And they do! Primarily for conditions that need a prescription — the practitioner just self prescribes 

Suggests that telemedicine and AI type providers can help reduce healthcare utilization through avoidable visits by letting people just get the dang antibiotics: for their UTI, or step throat (+rapid test), their asthma meds, eczema, migraines, cold sores. 

Allow people easier access to meds when the condition is predictable, familiar, and has a clear treatment path

https://www.nber.org/papers/w33573

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Doctors to some degree fight against this cause these visits are easy and profitable visits

totally agree, lots of common everyday stuff can be made way easier and reduce wait times for everything else