AAFP: Factors Linked to Family Physician's Use of E-Visits, 5 Takeaways

  1. Race. Black and American Indian/Alaska Native FPs were 46% and 28% more likely
  2. respectively
  3. to provide e-visits than white FPs.
  4. Practice ownership status. Compared with sole owners
  5. FPs with no official ownership stake or some other type of ownership arrangement were between 56% and 71% less likely to offer e-visits.
  6. Practice size. Compared with solo practices
  7. practices with between 2-5 providers were 4% less likely to offer e-visits. practices with 6+ providers were up to 45% more likely to offer e-visits.
  8. Faculty status. FPs who held volunteer/clinical faculty status were 41% more likely to offer e-visits than FPs who did not.
  9. Primary practice type. Compared to those in private practice
  10. FPs who worked in a federal health system were 4+ times as likely to offer e-visits
  11. managed care setting were nearly 10 times as likely.

Source: AAFP - https://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/20191211e-visits.html

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